Parectopa picroglossa

Parectopa picroglossa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Infraorder:	Heteroneura
Family:	Gracillariidae
Genus:	Parectopa
Species:	P. picroglossa
Binomial name
	Parectopa picroglossa; Meyrick, 1912

Last updated April 30, 2019

Parectopa picroglossa is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Sri Lanka.^[1]

Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera. Most lepidopterans are moths, and there are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of which have yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are also crepuscular and diurnal species.

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.

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea. The island is geographically separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. The legislative capital, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, is a suburb of the commercial capital and largest city, Colombo.

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References

↑ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) ^{[ permanent dead link ]}

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[1] Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) ^{[ permanent dead link ]}