Caloptilia sassafrasella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Caloptilia |
Species: | C. sassafrasella |
Binomial name | |
Caloptilia sassafrasella (Chambers, 1876) | |
Caloptilia sassafrasella, the sassafras caloptilia moth, is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Canada and the United States (including Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Texas and Kentucky). [1]
The wingspan is about 11 mm.
The larvae feed on Sassafras albidum , Sassafras officinale var. albidum and Sassafras sassafras . They mine the leaves of their host plant. Later instars are found in a downward rolled leaf.
Sassafras is a genus of three extant and one extinct species of deciduous trees in the family Lauraceae, native to eastern North America and eastern Asia. The genus is distinguished by its aromatic properties, which have made the tree useful to humans.
Gracillariidae is an important family of insects in the order Lepidoptera and the principal family of leaf miners that includes several economic, horticultural or recently invasive pest species such as the horse-chestnut leaf miner, Cameraria ohridella.
Sassafras albidum is a species of Sassafras native to eastern North America, from southern Maine and southern Ontario west to Iowa, and south to central Florida and eastern Texas. It occurs throughout the eastern deciduous forest habitat type, at altitudes of up to 1,500 m (4,900 ft) above sea level. It formerly also occurred in southern Wisconsin, but is extirpated there as a native tree.
Caloptilia rufipennella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae that is found throughout Europe.
Caloptilia serotinella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae, found in North America.
Caloptilia alchimiella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found in Europe and the Near East.
Caloptilia is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Caloptilia prosticta is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Madagascar, Nigeria, the Seychelles, South Africa and Sri Lanka.
Caloptilia gloriosa is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Japan and the Russian Far East.
Caloptilia ryukyuensis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known the Ryukyu Islands of Japan.
Caloptilia alni is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from China, Japan, Korea and the Russian Far East.
Caloptilia isochrysa is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the state of Meghalaya in India, the islands of Honshū, Kyūshū and Ryukyu in Japan and from Nepal.
Caloptilia magnoliae is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the islands of Hokkaidō and Honshū in Japan and from Korea.
Caloptilia violacella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Illinois, Missouri, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, New York and Texas in the United States.
Caloptilia chrysitis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. The larvae of this species mine and fold the leaves of species in the genera Weinmannia andElaeocarpus as well as Knightia excelsa, although only rarely for the later species.
Caloptilia diversilobiella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found in the United States (California).
Caloptilia fraxinella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Canada and the United States.
Caloptilia negundella, the boxelder leafroller, is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. The species was first described by Vactor Tousey Chambers in 1876. It is known from the Canadian province of Quebec and the US states of Colorado, Kentucky, New York, California, Maine, Ohio and Vermont.
Caloptilia metadoxa is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Meghalaya, India.
Caloptilia onustella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from most of Europe, east to the European part of Russia, Ukraine, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, as well as Morocco and Turkey.