Metriochroa syringae

Metriochroa syringae
Metriochroa syringae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Metriochroa
Species: M. syringae
Binomial name
Metriochroa syringae
Kumata, 1998[1]

Metriochroa syringae is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Japan (Hokkaidō).[2]

The wingspan is 5.6-6.5 mm.

The larvae feed on Syringa reticulata. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a narrowly linear mine. Later, it gradually widens into a very long and irregularly curved gallery that is sometimes fused into a large blotch. The last sap-feeding larva makes an inter parenchymal mine, so that the mine is seen from the upper side of the leaf as a trace of pale greenish mottles in this stage. A pupal chamber is found within the mine, but not always at the end of the mine. It is ellipsoidal, with very slightly swollen upper and lower sides.

References

  1. ^ Japanese species of the subfamily Oecophyllembiinae Réal et Balachowsky (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), with descriptions of a new genus and eight new species
  2. ^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
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