Phodoryctis dolichophila

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Phodoryctis dolichophila
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phodoryctis
Species:
P. dolichophila
Binomial name
Phodoryctis dolichophila
(Vári, 1961) [1]
Synonyms
  • Acrocercops dolichophilaVári, 1961

Phodoryctis dolichophila is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa and Zimbabwe. [2]

The larvae feed on Dolichos trilobus and Vigna species, including Vigna unguiculata . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a moderate, more or less rounded, transparent or semi-transparent blotch mine.

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