Rifseria is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains only one species, Rifseria fuscotaeniaella, which is found in North America from Manitoba and British Columbia to eastern Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and coastal California.[1][2]

Rifseria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Tribe: Gelechiini
Genus: Rifseria
Hodges, 1966
Species:
R. fuscotaeniaella
Binomial name
Rifseria fuscotaeniaella
(Chambers, 1878)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia fuscotaeniaella Chambers, 1878

The larvae feed on Anaphalis and Gnaphalium species. They mine the leaves of their host plant.[3]

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