Chrysocercops argentata

Chrysocercops argentata
Chrysocercops argentata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Chrysocercops
Species: C. argentata
Binomial name
Chrysocercops argentata
Kumata, 1992[1]

Chrysocercops argentata is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Malaysia (Pahang) and Nepal.[2]

The wingspan is 6.1-6.8 mm.

The larvae feed on Hopea nutans and Shorea robusta. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine is an interparenchymal blotch occurring near leaf margins. It is rather large and somewhat swollen. In mature condition the upper surface of the mine is loosened or contracted, and is discoloured into dark brown in a sharp contrast to normal greenish parts of the leaf.


References

  1. ^ Descriptions Of Thirteen New Species Of The Genus Chrysocercops Kumata Et Kuroko, 1988, From Malaysia And Nepal (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)
  2. ^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
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