Chrysocercops leprosulae

Chrysocercops leprosulae is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Pahang, Malaysia.[2]

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

The wingspan is 4.9–6 mm.

The larvae feed on Shorea leprosula. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a large, interparenchymal blotch occurring along the leaf-margin.

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