Corythoxestis sunosei
| Corythoxestis sunosei | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gracillariidae |
| Genus: | Corythoxestis |
| Species: | C. sunosei |
| Binomial name | |
| Corythoxestis sunosei (Kumata, 1998)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Corythoxestis sunosei is a moth of the Gracillariidae family, known from Japan (Kyūshū)[1] and China.[2]
The wingspan is 4.4-6.7 mm.[3]
The host plants for the species are Adina pilulifera, Mussaenda parviflora,[4] Mussaenda esquirolii and Uncaria rhynchophylla.[1] They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine is found on the upper side of the leaf and purely epidermal, narrowly linear, very long and tightly coiled in the beginning. Later, it wanders on the disc into an irregularly curved serpentine. The mine is whitish in appearance, with an irregularly interrupted, brownish line of frass in the centre. A pupal chamber is situated at the end of the mine, usually at the margin of leaf, with a swollen lower side and a wrinkled upper side.
References
- 1 2 3 Corythoxestis sunosei (Kumata, 1998) at the Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera).
- ↑ Two species of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) new to China, and description of the pupal morphology of the genera Corythoxestis and Eumetriochroa
- ↑ Japanese species of the subfamily Oecophyllembiinae Réal et Balachowsky (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), with descriptions of a new genus and eight new species
- ↑ Four new species of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) from China and Japan, and description of the pupal morphology of the genera Corythoxestis, Eumetriochroa, Guttigera, and Metriochroa