Phyllocnistis tropaeolicola Kawahara, Nishida & Davis

Prins, Jurate De, Brito, Rosângela & Moreira, Gilson Rudinei Pires, 2016, An annotated taxonomic checklist of the Neotropical Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) with links to the information on host plants and parasitoids, Zootaxa 4158 (1), pp. 1-51 : 38

Phyllocnistis tropaeolicola Kawahara, Nishida & Davis, 2009

" Phyllocnistis tropaeolicola Kawahara, Nishida & Davis , sp. n. "—Kawahara, A.Y., Nishida, K. & Davis,

D.R. 2009. ZooKeys 27: 20–28, figs. 2C, 6A–E, 9A–L, 12A–H.

Type locality: Costa Rica, Prov. Cartago, Cerro de la Muerte, Villa Mills, 3100 m, emerged 13.iii.2003 from

Tropaeolum emarginatum , leg. K. Nishida.

Type specimens: Holotype ♂, USNM; Paratypes 1 prepupa, 1 pupa, 6♂ and 4♀, genitalia slide USNM

33280–33282, 33285, USNM, UCR, INBIO.

Distribution: Costa Rica (Kawahara et al. 2009: 24).

Larval hostplant(s): Tropaeolaceae : Tropaeolum emarginatum Turcz. (Kawahara et al. 2009: 28) .