Leucospilapteryx anaphalidis

Leucospilapteryx anaphalidis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Leucospilapteryx
Species: L. anaphalidis
Binomial name
Leucospilapteryx anaphalidis
Kumata, 1965[1]

Leucospilapteryx anaphalidis is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Japan (the islands of Hokkaidō and Honshū) and the Russian Far East.[2]

The wingspan is 6-7.1 mm.

The larvae feed on Anaphalis margaritacea. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a linear mine on the underside of the leaf, later it becomes a swollen blotch. The cocoon is made on a fold of the leaf and is elliptical, very elongate and brownish.

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