Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera > Gracillariidae > Chileoptilia

Chileoptilia

Wikipedia Abstract

Chileoptilia yaroella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Chile. 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.
View Wikipedia Record: Chileoptilia

Species

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0