Chrysaster hagicola
Appearance
Chrysaster hagicola | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Chrysaster |
Species: | C. hagicola
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Binomial name | |
Chrysaster hagicola Kumata, 1961[1]
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Chrysaster hagicola is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Japan (Hokkaidō, Honshū, Shikoku and Kyūshū), Korea and the Russian Far East.[2]
The wingspan is 4.5–5 mm.
The larvae feed on Lespedeza bicolor and Lespedeza cyrtobotrya. They mine the leaves of their host plant.
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