Lectotype ♀, NMNZ, designated by Dugdale (1988: 71), figured by Watt (1920, pl. 30, fig. 4).
STATUS
Species
COMMENT
Has been synonymized under Gracilaria aellomacha Meyrick, 1880 by Meyrick (1923: 167), see also Hudson (1928: 322). Transferred to Eumetriochroa by Hoare et al. (2019: 65).
PUBLICATION
Watt, M. N. 1920. The leaf-mining insects of New Zealand. - Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 52:439-466, 30 pls.
Hoare, R. J. B., Patrick, B. H. & Buckley, T. R. 2019. A new leaf-mining moth from New Zealand, Sabulopteryx botanica sp. nov. (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Gracillariinae), feeding on the rare endemic shrub Teucrium parvifolium (Lamiaceae), with a revised checklist of New Zealand Gracillariidae - ZooKeys 865:39-62.