Corythoxestis yaeyamensis

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Corythoxestis yaeyamensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Corythoxestis
Species:
C. yaeyamensis
Binomial name
Corythoxestis yaeyamensis
(Kumata, 1998) [1]
Synonyms
  • Cryphiomystis yaeyamensisKumata, 1998 [2]

Corythoxestis yaeyamensis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. [1] [3] [4]

The wingspan is 3.8-4.9 mm. [2] The hostplant for the species is Saurauia tristyla . [1] [2] They mine the leaves of their host plant. [2] [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 De Prins, Jurate & De Prins, Willy (2024). De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (eds.). "Corythoxestis yaeyamensis (Kumata, 1998)". Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae. Belspo, Brussels, Belgium: Belgian Biodiversity Platform. doi:10.48580/d4sb-397 . Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Kumata, Tosio (1998). "Japanese species of the subfamily Oecophyllembiinae Réal et Balachowsky (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), with descriptions of a new genus and eight new species". Insecta Matsumurana. Series entomology. New series. 54: 77–131. hdl: 2115/9886 .
  3. ↑ "和名未定 Corythoxestis yaeyamensis (Kumata, 1998)". Japanese Moths. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  4. 1 2 Kobayashi, Shigeki; Huang, Guo-Hua; Nakamura, Akihiro & Hirowatari, Toshiya (2013). "Four new species of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) from China and Japan, and description of the pupal morphology of the genera Corythoxestis, Eumetriochroa, Guttigera, and Metriochroa". Zootaxa. 3619 (2): 101–129. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3619.2.1. PMID   26131468.


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