Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera > Gracillariidae > Caloptilia > Caloptilia cataractias

Caloptilia cataractias

Wikipedia Abstract

Caloptilia cataractias is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe. The larvae feed on Rhynchosia caribaea. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The first part of the mine has the form of a narrow gallery on the underside of the leaf, the second part is a much wider gallery.
View Wikipedia Record: Caloptilia cataractias

External References

Citations

Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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