Dialectica ehretiae

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Dialectica ehretiae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Dialectica
Species:
D. ehretiae
Binomial name
Dialectica ehretiae
(Vári, 1961) [1]
Synonyms
  • Acrocercops ehretiaeVári, 1961
Ehretia cymosa Ehretia cymosa flowers.jpg
Ehretia cymosa

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

The larvae feed on Ehretia cymosa var. abyssinica and Ehretia rigida . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of an irregular, oblong, moderate, almost purely epidermal blotch-mine on the upperside of the leaf. It is slightly reddish-brown with a whitish margin.

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