Caloptilia aurantiaca

Caloptilia aurantiaca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Infraorder: Heteroneura
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Caloptilia
Species: C. aurantiaca
Binomial name
Caloptilia aurantiaca
(Wollaston, 1858)[1]
Synonyms
  • Gracilaria aurantiaca Wollaston, 1858

Caloptilia aurantiaca is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Madeira and the Canary Islands.

The larvae feed on Hypericum canariense, Hypericum glandulosum, Hypericum inodorum and Hypericum reflexum. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as an epidermal corridor, but later becomes a shallow tentiform mine. In the end, the larva lives freely under a folded leaf tip.[2]

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