Phyllocnistis cirrhophanes

Phyllocnistis cirrhophanes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllocnistis
Species: P. cirrhophanes
Binomial name
Phyllocnistis cirrhophanes
(Meyrick, 1915)[1]

Phyllocnistis cirrhophanes is a moth of the Gracillariidae family, known from Karnataka, India.[1]

The hostplant for the species is Alseodaphne semecarpifolia. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a spiral. Later, it becomes an undulating gallery under the upper cuticle of the leaf, always confined to the edge of the leaf and producing blackish discolouration.

References

  1. 1 2 Phyllocnistis cirrhophanes Meyrick, 1915 at the Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera).


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