Caloptilia chrysitis

Caloptilia chrysitis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
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. 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.

References

1 2 Dugdale, John Stewart (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 71. doi:10.7931/j2/fnz.14. Wikidata Q45083134.
↑ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
↑ Hoare, Robert J. B.; Patrick, Brian; Buckley, Thomas Robert (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: 39–65. doi:10.3897/zookeys.865.34265. PMC 6663935. PMID 31379443. Wikidata Q70104394.

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[Dugdale1988-1] 1 2 Dugdale, John Stewart (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 71. doi:10.7931/j2/fnz.14. Wikidata Q45083134.

[2] Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)

[Hoare2019-3] Hoare, Robert J. B.; Patrick, Brian; Buckley, Thomas Robert (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: 39–65. doi:10.3897/zookeys.865.34265. PMC 6663935. PMID 31379443. Wikidata Q70104394.