Caloptilia magnifica

Caloptilia magnifica is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the southern Alps and former Yugoslavia, and a subspecies of Japan.

Caloptilia magnifica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Caloptilia
Species:
C. magnifica
Binomial name
Caloptilia magnifica
(Stainton, 1867)[1]
Synonyms
  • Gracilaria magnifica Stainton, 1867
  • Calybites magnifica
  • Caloptilia redtenbacheri (Mann, 1867)

The wingspan is 10.5–11 mm.

The larvae of subspecies magnifica feeds on Epimedium alpinum, while subspecies moriokensis feeds on Epimedium grandiflorum var. thunbergianum. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a long, lower-surface, strongly branching, epidermal, corridor. Later, deeper layers of tissue are eaten and the mine develops into a tentiform mine with dispersed frass. Older larvae leave the mine and make a marginal roll on another leaf, almost always folded downwards. This leaf is eaten out from the inside. Pupation takes place in a yellowish white cocoon that is made at the margin usually of the same leaf.[2]

Subspecies
  • Caloptilia magnifica magnifica (Europe)
  • Caloptilia magnifica moriokensis Kumata, 1982 (Japan (Honshū))

References
  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. "bladmineerders.nl". Archived from the original on 2012-09-12. Retrieved 2010-11-05.


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