''Caloptilia scaeodesma'', also known as the Kacang Putih Moth, is a
moth of the family
Gracillariidae. It is known from
India (including the
Andaman Islands
The Andaman Islands () are an archipelago in the northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region. Together with the Nicobar Islands to their south, the Andamans serve as a maritime boundary between th ...
)
Indonesia (the
Anambas Islands),
Malaysia (
Selangor),
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
and
Vanuatu. The name is for their larvae's tendency to roll the ends of leaves onto itself, making it resemble rolled up
Bombay Mix, which is called ''kacang putih'' in
Malaysia and
Singapore.
[https://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/text/2016.htm A Guide to Mangroves of Singapore]
The
larvae feed on ''
Rhizophora'' and ''
Sonneratia'' species. They
mine the leaves of their host plant. They have a wingspan of 10 mm.
References
scaeodesma
Moths of Asia
Moths described in 1928
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