Caloptilia chrysitis

Caloptilia chrysitis
Scientific 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
	Caloptilia adelina (Meyrick, 1880) ; Caloptilia purpurea (Philpott, 1927) ; Caloptilia rutilans (Butler, 1880) ; Gracilaria purpurea Philpott, 1927 ;

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]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 71. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
^ 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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[Dugdale1988-1] John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 71. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.

[2] Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)

[Hoare2019-3] 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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