Haplochrois bipunctella

Haplochrois bipunctella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Elachistidae
Genus: Haplochrois
Species:
H. bipunctella
Binomial name
Haplochrois bipunctella
(Chambers, 1880)
Synonyms
  • Tetanocentria bipunctella
  • Aetia bipunctella Chambers, 1880
  • Chaetocampa crotonella Bottimer, 1926
  • Aetia crotonella

Haplochrois bipunctella is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in North America, including Arizona, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.

Adults are on wing from May to September.

The larvae feed on Croton engelmannii. They create leaf petiole galls and mine the seeds of their host plant.

References

  1. ↑ mothphotographersgroup
  2. ↑ Bug Guide
  3. ↑ Landry, B. 2001. A new agonoxenine moth from the Galápagos Islands (Gelechioidea: Elachistidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 55(2): 59-62[link removed]