Caloptilia monticola

Species of moth

Caloptilia monticola

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

C. monticola

Binomial name
Caloptilia monticola

Kumata, 1966[1]

Caloptilia monticola is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from China and Japan (Hokkaidō and Honshū) and the Russian Far East.[2]

The wingspan is 12–13 mm.

The larvae feed on Acer argutum, Acer distylum, Acer ginnala, Acer micranthum, Acer mono, Acer pentaphyllum, Acer rufinerve, Acer semenovii, Acer tschonoskii and Acer ukurunduense. They probably mine the leaves of their host plant.

## References[edit]

1. ^ Descriptions of twenty new species of the genus Caloptilia Hübner from Japan including Ryukyu Islands (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)
2. ^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)

Taxon identifiers

Caloptilia monticola|

* Wikidata: Q5023486
* Wikispecies: Caloptilia monticola
* BOLD: 590911
* CoL: 5X963
* EoL: 305614
* GBIF: 5105173
* iNaturalist: 926582
* IRMNG: 10611871
* LepIndex: 126356
* NCBI: 1806614
* Open Tree of Life: 3037669

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