Caloptilia sebastianiella

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Caloptilia sebastianiella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Caloptilia
Species:
C. sebastianiella
Binomial name
Caloptilia sebastianiella
(Busck, 1900)
Synonyms
  • Caloptilia sebastianella(Dyar, 1903)

Caloptilia sebastianiella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Florida, United States. [1]

The larvae feed on Gymnanthes lucida and Sebastiana fruticosa . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a brown, irregular, elongated upper blotch-mine, with the upper epidermis drawn into a longitudinal ridge.

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References

  1. Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .