Caloptilia umbratella

Caloptilia umbratella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Caloptilia
Species: C. umbratella
Binomial name
Caloptilia umbratella
(Braun, 1927)

Caloptilia umbratella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Ontario and Québec in Canada and Kentucky and Virginia in the United States.[1]

There are probably two generations per year.

The larvae feed on Acer rubrum and Acer saccharum. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a short linear mine terminating in a small flat blotch, in which the parenchyma is consumed.

References

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, February 07, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.