Caloptilia sapporella

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Caloptilia sapporella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Caloptilia
Species:
C. sapporella
Binomial name
Caloptilia sapporella
(Matsumura, 1931) [1]
Synonyms
  • Graciltaria sapporellaMatsumura, 1931
  • Caloptilia sapporensis(Kamijo, 1965)

Caloptilia sapporella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from China, Japan (Kyūshū, Shikoku, Hokkaidō, the Ryukyu Islands, Honshū), Korea and the Russian Far East. [2]

The wingspan is 10–13.5 mm.

The larvae feed on Castanea crenata , Quercus acuminata , Quercus cerris , Quercus crispula , Quercus dentata , Quercus mongolica , Quercus serrata and Quercus variabilis . They mine the leaves of their host plant.

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