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Chrysaster hagicola

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Chrysaster hagicola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Chrysaster
Species:
C. hagicola
Binomial name
Chrysaster hagicola
Kumata, 1961[1]

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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