''Cuphodes diospyrosella'' is a
moth of the family
Gracillariidae. It is known from
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 is 7.0–8.5 mm.
Japanese Moths
/ref> Leaf mine
A leaf miner is any one of numerous species of insects in which the larval stage lives in, and eats, the leaf tissue of plants. The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths ( Lepidoptera), sawflies ( Symphyta, the mother clade of wasp ...
rs, the ''diospyrosella'' larvae feed on the mesophyll of the '' Diospyros'' species.
References
Cuphodes
Leaf miners
Moths of Japan
Moths described in 1957
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