Cuphodes diospyri

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Cuphodes diospyri
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Cuphodes
Species:
C. diospyri
Binomial name
Cuphodes diospyri
Vári, 1961 [1]

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

The larvae feed on Diospyros natalensis . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a small, very irregular, semi-transparent blotch-mine in a cluster usually near the top of the leaf.

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