Dialectica carcharota

Dialectica carcharota
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Dialectica
Species:
D. carcharota
Binomial name
Dialectica carcharota
Synonyms
  • Acrocercops carcharota Meyrick, 1912

Dialectica carcharota is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe.[2]

The larvae feed on Borago officinalis, Cynoglossum hochstetteri and Lithospermum species.

References

  1. ^ Afrotropical Gracillariidae
  2. ^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
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