Deoptilia syrista (Meyrick, 1926)

SUBFAMILY	Acrocercopinae
GENUS	Deoptilia
SPECIES	syrista
AUTHOR	(Meyrick, 1926)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Acrocercops syrista, n. sp.
TYPE LOCALITY	[India, Maharashtra], Bombay [Mumbai]; [Karnataka], Karwar.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Lectotype ♀, designated by Kumata, Kuroko & Ermolaev (1988a: 92, footnote), not dissected, BMNH; 3 Paralectotypes, genitalia slide BMNH 23989♀, 2 lacking abdomen, BMNH.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Meyrick, E. 1926c. Exotic Microlepidoptera. - Exotic Microlepidoptera (Marlborough) 3(10):289-320.
PAGINATION	293

Species pictures

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
India	Karnataka	Meyrick, E. 1926a. New South African Micro-Lepidoptera. - Annals of the South African Museum 23(2):325-351.	293
India	Maharashtra	Meyrick, E. 1926a. New South African Micro-Lepidoptera. - Annals of the South African Museum 23(2):325-351.	293
Taiwan, Province of China		Kumata, T., Kuroko, H. & Ermolaev, V. P. 1988a. Japanese species of the Acrocercops-group (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae). Part I. - Insecta Matsumurana, N. S. 38:1-111.	92 (footnote)

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Euphorbiaceae	Mallotus philippinensis	India	Meyrick, E. 1926a. New South African Micro-Lepidoptera. - Annals of the South African Museum 23(2):325-351.	293
Euphorbiaceae	Mallotus sp.		Robinson, G. S., Ackery, P. R., Kitching, I. J., Beccaloni, G. W. & Hernández, L. M. 2001. Hostplants of the moth and butterfly caterpillars of the Oriental Region. - — :1-744.	22

* At first an irregular gallery along veins under upper cuticle of leaf, later mining under a web spun over upper surface of veins, eating on either side of the vein, but leaving the red dotted glands untouched.