Phyllocnistis cirrhophanes
Appearance
Phyllocnistis cirrhophanes | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Phyllocnistis |
Species: | P. cirrhophanes
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Binomial name | |
Phyllocnistis cirrhophanes |
Phyllocnistis cirrhophanes is a moth of the family Gracillariidae, 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
[edit]- ^ a b Phyllocnistis cirrhophanes Meyrick, 1915 at the Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera).