Phyllonorycter anchistea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Phyllonorycter |
Species: | P. anchistea |
Binomial name | |
Phyllonorycter anchistea (Vári, 1961) [1] | |
Synonyms | |
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Phyllonorycter anchistea is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa [2] and Botswana. The habitat consists of savannah or semi-urban areas with low growing trees and bush vegetation.
The length of the forewings is 2.5–3.3 mm. Adults are on wing almost all year except from August to November. [3]
Gracillariidae is an important family of insects in the order Lepidoptera and the principal family of leaf miners that includes several economic, horticultural or recently invasive pest species such as the horse-chestnut leaf miner, Cameraria ohridella.
Phyllonorycter brachylaenae is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa. The habitat consists of understory vegetation in secondary forests.
Phyllonorycter caudasimplex is a moth from the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Nigeria.
Phyllonorycter chionopa is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Namibia. The habitat consists of sandy floodplains and rocky slopes along dry river beds with dominant trees as Acacia montis-usti and Commiphora species.
Phyllonorycter didymopa is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa and Namibia.
Phyllonorycter grewiaecola is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya. The habitat consists of savannah areas at altitudes between 470 and 920 meters.
Cameraria hexalobina is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of savannah vegetation with high standing dry grass.
Phyllonorycter hibiscina is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Cameroon. The habitat consists of secondary forests.
Phyllonorycter lemarchandi is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Madagascar.
Phyllonorycter loxozona is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa and Uganda. The record for Kenya is a misidentification of Cameraria torridella.
Phyllonorycter melhaniae is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Phyllonorycter pavoniae is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa.
Phyllonorycter rhynchosiae is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa. The habitat consists of the urban hills of Pretoria.
Porphyrosela homotropha is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Ethiopia.
Porphyrosela teramni is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Stomphastis thraustica is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Central African Republic, Ghana, Nigeria, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Madagascar, Malaysia, Indonesia and India. It was recently also recorded from China.
Phyllonorycter gozmanyi is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Cameroon. The habitat consists of savannah.
Phyllonorycter farensis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the Faro River Reserve in Cameroon and the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Caloptilia isotoma is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Nigeria, Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Caloptilia prosticta is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Madagascar, Nigeria, the Seychelles, South Africa and Sri Lanka.