Phyllonorycter didymopa

Phyllonorycter didymopa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species:
P. didymopa
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter didymopa
(Vári, 1961)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis didymopa Vári, 1961

Phyllonorycter didymopa is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa[2] and Namibia.

The length of the forewings is 2.9–3.2 mm. Specimens were reared from mines collected in mid-January and mid-March.[3]

The larvae feed on Dombeya rotundifolia. They mine the leaves of their host plant. Later it creates a gall-like swelling near the base of the disc.

References

  1. ^ Afrotropical Gracillariidae
  2. ^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
  3. ^ Systematics, revisionary taxonomy, and biodiversity of Afrotropical Lithocolletinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)


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