Caloptilia magnoliae

Caloptilia magnoliae is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the islands of Hokkaidō and Honshū in Japan and from Korea.[2]

Caloptilia magnoliae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Caloptilia
Species:
C. magnoliae
Binomial name
Caloptilia magnoliae
Kumata, 1966[1]

The wingspan is 14.5–15.5 mm.

The larvae feed on Magnolia heptapetala, Magnolia hypoleuca and Magnolia kobus. They probably mine the leaves of their host plant. It is gregarious in the larval stage, in young instars five to twenty larvae live together in a large blotch mine, and in the fourth and fifth instars in a cigarette-formed leaf-roll.

References
  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)


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