Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Caloptilia octopunctata is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, India, Australia (New South Wales and Queensland), New Zealand and Indonesia.The wingspan is 9-13 mm.The larvae feed on Homalanthus species, Omalanthus populifolius, Sapium ellipticum, Sapium indicum and Sapium sebiferum. They mine the leaves of their host plant. Mines are always started at the upper epidermal layer. The mine at first is narrowly linear, upper epidermal, and transparent-whitish in colour, then it widens to an irregularly blotch-formed mine, which is upper parenchymal and greenish-brown in colour.