''Palaeomystella oligophaga'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family

Agonoxenidae The Agonoxeninae are a subfamily of moths. History of classification Formerly, the subfamily only contained four named species – all in the type genus '' Agonoxena'' – if (e.g. following Nielsen ''et al.'', 1996). Such a monotypic ar ...

. It is found in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. The length of the forewings is 7.7-10.1 mm. They have pale-brown scales tipped with brown intermixed with brown scales, The hindwings are pale gray. The larvae feed on '' Macairea radula'' and '' Macairea thyrsiflora''. They create a prosoplasmatic histioid gall on their host plants. The species may create three different types of soft, fleshy galls. The larvae are pale gray and 5.2-8.7 mm long., 2008: Three new cecidogenous ''Palaeomystella'' Fletcher (Lepidoptera, Coleophoridae, Momphinae) associated with Melastomataceae in Brazil. ''Revista Brasileira de Entomologia'' 52 (4): 647-657. Full article

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Etymology

The species epithet ''oligophaga'' is derived from oligophagous (meaning: feeding only on a small number of host species).

References

Moths described in 2008 Agonoxeninae Moths of South America {{Agonoxenidae-stub