Eumetriochroa hiranoi

Eumetriochroa hiranoi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Eumetriochroa
Species: E. hiranoi
Binomial name
Eumetriochroa hiranoi
Kumata, 1998[1]

Eumetriochroa hiranoi is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Japan (Honshū and the Ryukyu islands)[2] and China (Jiangxi).[3]

The wingspan is 4.6-6.1 mm. This species appears very similar to Eumetriochroa kalopanacis but can be distinguished by from the latter by differences in the genital structures.[1]

The larvae feed on Styrax japonicus. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine is found on the upper side of the leaf. It is long linear, irregularly curved, and somewhat serpentine. The mining part is discoloured into white, semitransparent and without a dark line of frass. A pupal chamber is placed at the end of mines, ellipsoidal, with a strongly swollen lower side and a wrinkled upper side.

Eumetriochroa hiranoi was named in honour of Nagao Hirano.

References

  1. 1 2 Japanese species of the subfamily Oecophyllembiinae Réal et Balachowsky (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), with descriptions of a new genus and eight new species
  2. ↑ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
  3. ↑ Two new and one newly recorded species of Gracillariidae from China (Lepidoptera)


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