Chrysocercops squamosa

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

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

The wingspan is 5-6.2 mm.

The larvae feed on Vatica pallida and Vatica pauciflora. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a linear gallery occurring on the lower surface of the leaves. Later, it changes into an interparenchymal blotch usually lying along the leaf-margin. The mining part of leaf is discoloured into brown, sometimes into dark brown in matured condition. Pupation takes place outside of the mine, and usually in a furrow of the breeding case. The cocoon is boat-shaped, ochre-whitish and covered by two to four minute bubbles.

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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