Caloptilia vibrans

Caloptilia vibrans is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa.[2]

Caloptilia vibrans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Caloptilia
Species:
C. vibrans
Binomial name
Caloptilia vibrans
(Meyrick, 1918)[1]
Synonyms
  • Gracilaria vibrans Meyrick, 1918

The larvae feed on Clerodendron glabrum. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a narrow, very oblong, transparent or semi-transparent mine, either along midrib and veins or along edge of leaf.

References
  1. Afrotropical Gracillariidae
  2. Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)


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