''Coptotriche japoniella'' is a
moth
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of the family
Tischeriidae that is endemic to
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
.
The
wingspan
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is about .
Japanese Moths
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The larvae feed on ''Eurya japonica
''Eurya japonica'', known as East Asian eurya, is a 1–3.5 m tall shrub in the Pentaphylacaceae family found in eastern China, Korea, and Japan. It is used as an ornamental plant.
In shinto
Shinto () is a religion from Japan. Classified as ...
'' and ''Eurya emarginata
''Eurya'' is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants in the family Pentaphylacaceae.
Fossil record
Several fossil seeds of ''Eurya stigmosa'' have been described from Middle Miocene strata of the Fasterholt area near Silkeborg in centra ...
''. They mine
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Grammar
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the leaves of their host plant.
References
Moths described in 2003
Endemic fauna of Japan
Tischeriidae
Moths of Japan
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