Chrysocercops thapai

Chrysocercops thapai is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Malaysia and Nepal.[2]

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

The wingspan is 5.7–7 mm.

The larvae feed on Shorea robusta. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a linear gallery occurring on the lower or rarely upper surface of the leaf. Later, after reaching the leaf-margin, it is broadened into a blotch usually elongate along the margin. Finally, in mature condition, the leaf margin with the mine is folded downward or rarely upward.

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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