Calybites trimaculata

Short description: Species of moth

Calybites trimaculata

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Gracillariidae
Genus:  | Calybites
Species:  |

C. trimaculata

Binomial name
Calybites trimaculata

Kumata, 1982[1]

Calybites trimaculata is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Japan (Shikoku island and the Ryukyu Islands).[2]

The wingspan is 7-8.5 mm.

The larvae feed on Persicaria chinensis. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The larva is a leaf miner in the early stage, and a leaf roller in the late stage. The mine occurs upon the lower side of the leaf and is very small and tentiformed. When nearly half-grown, the larva leaves the mine and migrates to the margin of the leaf, then cuts off the leaf along the margin into a narrow stripe, which it rolls up to form a cone on the lower side of the leaf. The cocoon is formed inside the cone. It is whitish and spindle-shaped.

## References

1. ↑ A taxonomic revision of the Gracillaria group occurring in Japan (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)
2. ↑ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)

Wikidata ☰ Q5024574 entry

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