Gracillaria albicapitata

Gracillaria albicapitata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Gracillaria
Species:
G. albicapitata
Binomial name
Gracillaria albicapitata
Issiki, 1930[1]
Synonyms
  • Caloptilia albicapitata
  • Lyoneta jezonella Matsumura, 1931
  • Gracillaria jezoniella (Kuznetzov & Baryshnikova, 1998)
  • Gracillaria syringifoliella (Ermolaev, 1981)

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.[2]

The wingspan is 9.8–12.5 mm.

The larvae feed on Fraxinus lanuginosa, Fraxinus mandshurica, Syringa amurensis, Syringa reticulata and Syringa vulgaris. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

References

  1. ^ A taxonomic revision of the Gracillaria group occurring in Japan (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)
  2. ^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.