Telamoptilia prosacta | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Telamoptilia |
Species: | T. prosacta |
Binomial name | |
Telamoptilia prosacta | |
Synonyms | |
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Telamoptilia prosacta is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia (Java), India (Bihar), Japan (the Ryukyu Islands) and Fiji. [2]
The wingspan is 6.5–8 mm.
The larvae feed on Ipomoea species, including Ipomoea batatas . They mine the leaves of their host plant. It has not been recorded as a severe pest. In Japan, however, it heavily infested the leaf of sweet potato in Yakusima, the larval leaf-mines having been found on almost all the leaves of the plant in some cultivated fields in autumn.
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.
Bedellia somnulentella, the sweet potato leaf miner, is a moth in the family Bedelliidae.
Aristaea bathracma is a species of moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from China, Thailand, Japan (Honshū), the Russian Far East, Mozambique, South Africa, Réunion and Uganda.
Aristaea issikii is a species of moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Honshū, Japan.
Leucospilapteryx anaphalidis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Japan and the Russian Far East.
Corythoxestis yaeyamensis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae, known from Japan.
Eumetriochroa hederae is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the islands of Honshū, Kyūshū, Shikoku in Japan and in China.
Eumetriochroa miyatai is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the islands of Hokkaidō, Honshū, Shikoku and Kyūshū in Japan.
Chrysaster hagicola is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Japan, Korea and the Russian Far East.
Phyllonorycter rostrispinosa is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the islands of Kyūshū and Honshū in Japan.
Phyllonorycter hikosana is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Kyūshū island of Japan.
Artifodina japonica is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Japan.
Deoptilia heptadeta is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Japan and Taiwan.
Gracillaria albicapitata is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the islands of Hokkaidō and Honshū in Japan and the Russian Far East.
Gracillaria japonica is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the island of Honshu, the main island of Japan.
Gracillaria ussuriella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the islands of Hokkaidō, Honshū and Kyūshū in Japan and the Russian Far East.
Gracillaria arsenievi is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and the Russian Far East.
Caloptilia callicarpae is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Japan.
Acrocercops ipomoeae is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Cuba.
Phyllonorycter ipomoellus is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found in south-western Rwanda. The habitat consists of open clearings in montane wet forests at an altitude of about 1,800 meters.