Caloptilia chrysitis

Caloptilia chrysitis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is endemic to New Zealand.[1][2] The larvae of this species mine and fold the leaves of species in the genera Weinmannia and Elaeocarpus as well as Knightia excelsa, although only rarely for the later species.[3]

Caloptilia chrysitis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Caloptilia
Species:
C. chrysitis
Binomial name
Caloptilia chrysitis
(Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Synonyms[1]
  • Caloptilia adelina (Meyrick, 1880)
  • Caloptilia purpurea (Philpott, 1927)
  • Caloptilia rutilans (Butler, 1880)
  • Gracilaria purpurea Philpott, 1927

References
  1. John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. 14: 71. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  2. Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
  3. Robert J. B. Hoare; Brian H Patrick; Thomas R. Buckley (22 July 2019). "A new leaf-mining moth from New Zealand, Sabulopteryx botanica sp. nov. (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Gracillariinae), feeding on the rare endemic shrub Teucrium parvifolium (Lamiaceae), with a revised checklist of New Zealand Gracillariidae". ZooKeys. 865 (865): 39–65. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.865.34265. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 6663935. PMID 31379443. Wikidata Q70104394.
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