Dialectica carcharota

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Dialectica carcharota
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Dialectica
Species:
D. carcharota
Binomial name
Dialectica carcharota
Meyrick, 1912 [1]
Synonyms
  • Acrocercops carcharotaMeyrick, 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. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of an irregular, semi-transparent blotch-mine, usually occupying a whole leaf.

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