Telamoptilia prosacta

Telamoptilia prosacta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Telamoptilia
Species: T. prosacta
Binomial name
Telamoptilia prosacta
(Meyrick, 1918)[1]
Synonyms
  • Acrocercops prosacta Meyrick, 1918

Telamoptilia prosacta is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia (Java), India (Bihar), Japan (the Ryukyu Islands) and Fiji.[2]

The wingspan is 6.5–8 mm.

The larvae feed on Ipomoea species, including Ipomoea batatas. They mine the leaves of their host plant. It has not been recorded as a severe pest. In Japan, however, it heavily infested the leaf of sweet potato in Yakusima, the larval leaf-mines having been found on almost all the leaves of the plant in some cultivated fields in autumn.

References

  1. ↑ Japanese Species Of The Acrocercops-Group (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) Part II
  2. ↑ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)


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