Chileoptilia

Chileoptilia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Chileoptilia
Vargas & Landry, 2005
Species: C. yaroella
Binomial name
Chileoptilia yaroella
Vargas & Landry, 2005

Chileoptilia yaroella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Chile.[1]

The larvae feed on Acacia macrantha. They feed on the flowers of their host plant. It lives inside the flowers, moving from one flower to the other. No mining stage was observed.

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