Caloptilia cecidophora

Caloptilia cecidophora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gracillariidae
Genus:	Caloptilia
Species:	C. cecidophora
Binomial name
	Caloptilia cecidophora; Kumata, 1966

Caloptilia cecidophora is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Japan (Honshū, Kyūshū and the Ryukyu Islands)^[2] and Taiwan.^[3]

The wingspan is about 12 mm.

The larvae feed on , , . The first and second instar mine the leaves of their host plant along the vein.^[3] The third instar induces a gall within the leaf-mine in which the subsequent instar will develop until the sixth and last instar.^[3]

Cross section of the gall of Calotpilia cecidophora on Glochidion obovatum leaf, with the larva inside

References[]

^ Descriptions of twenty new species of the genus Caloptilia Hübner from Japan including Ryukyu Islands (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)
^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
^ ^a ^b ^c Giron, David; Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos; Françoise Laurans; Takeda, Seiji; Ohshima, Issei; Guiguet, Antoine (2019-05-01). "Origin of gall-inducing from leaf-mining in Caloptilia micromoths (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae)". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 6794. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-43213-7. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 6494848. PMID 31043653.

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[1] Descriptions of twenty new species of the genus Caloptilia Hübner from Japan including Ryukyu Islands (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)

[2] Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)

[:0-3] Giron, David; Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos; Françoise Laurans; Takeda, Seiji; Ohshima, Issei; Guiguet, Antoine (2019-05-01). "Origin of gall-inducing from leaf-mining in Caloptilia micromoths (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae)". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 6794. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-43213-7. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 6494848. PMID 31043653.

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