Eucosmophora dives

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Eucosmophora dives
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Eucosmophora
Species:
E. dives
Binomial name
Eucosmophora dives
Walsingham, 1897
Synonyms
  • Acrocercops dives

Eucosmophora dives is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Barbados, the British Virgin Islands (Tortola), the Dominican Republic, Grenada and Puerto Rico. [1]

The length of the forewings is 3.3–3.7 mm for males and 3.5–4 mm for females. [2]

The larvae feed on Inga fagifolia , Inga vera and Pithecollobium unguis-cati . They mine the leaves of their host plant.

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Eucosmophora chrysocosma is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Guyana.

Eucosmophora trimetalla is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Guyana.

Eucosmophora melanactis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Guyana.

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Eucosmophora prolata is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Venezuela.

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Gracillariinae

Gracillariinae are a subfamily of moths which was described by Henry Tibbats Stainton in 1854.

Acrocercopinae

Acrocercopinae is a subfamily of moths described by Akito Yuji Kawahara and Issei Ohshima in 2016.

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