Dialectica rendalli

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Dialectica rendalli
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Dialectica
Species:
D. rendalli
Binomial name
Dialectica rendalli
Walsingham, 1897

Dialectica rendalli is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Jamaica, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (Saint Croix and Saint Thomas). [1]

The larvae feed on Hibiscus rosa-sinensis . They probably mine the leaves of their host plant.

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