Caloptilia Speciosella

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Caloptilia speciosella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from the United States (Ohio and Kentucky). The larvae feed on Acer rubrum. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a small transparent blotch. In its earliest linear stage, it is an underside mine, situated in the angle at the base of one of the heavier veins. A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth (about ten times the number of species of butterfly), with thousands of species yet to be described.