Phyllocnistis cirrhophanes

Phyllocnistis cirrhophanes is a moth of the family Gracillariidae, known from Karnataka, India.[1]

Phyllocnistis cirrhophanes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Infraorder:
Heteroneura
Family:
Gracillariidae
Genus:
Phyllocnistis
Species:
P. cirrhophanes
Binomial name
Phyllocnistis cirrhophanes
(Meyrick, 1915)[1]

The hostplant for the species is Alseodaphne semecarpifolia. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a spiral. Later, it becomes an undulating gallery under the upper cuticle of the leaf, always confined to the edge of the leaf and producing blackish discolouration.

References
  1. Phyllocnistis cirrhophanes Meyrick, 1915 at the Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera).


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