Corythoxestis cyanolampra

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Corythoxestis cyanolampra
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Corythoxestis
Species:
C. cyanolampra
Binomial name
Corythoxestis cyanolampra
(Vári, 1961) [1]
Synonyms
  • Cryphiomystis cyanolampraVári, 1961

Corythoxestis cyanolampra is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa. [2]

The larvae feed on Burchellia bubalina . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of an extremely long, narrow, irregularly contorted, purely epidermal gallery on the upper side of the leaf.

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