Phyllonorycter chionopa | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Phyllonorycter |
Species: | P. chionopa |
Binomial name | |
Phyllonorycter chionopa (Vári, 1961) [1] | |
Synonyms | |
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Phyllonorycter chionopa is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Namibia. [2] The habitat consists of sandy floodplains and rocky slopes along dry river beds with dominant trees as Acacia montis-usti and Commiphora species.
The length of the forewings is 3 mm. The forewings are elongate and the ground colour is golden yellow with white markings consisting of a broad, irregularly shaped basal streak, two broad, costal, patch-like strigulae, and two dorsal patch-like strigulae. The hindwings are uniformly white. Adults are probably on wing from October to late November or early December. [3]
Phyllonorycter anchistea is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa and Botswana. The habitat consists of savannah or semi-urban areas with low growing trees and bush vegetation.
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 madagascariensis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Madagascar.
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.
Phyllonorycter grewiella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa, Botswana, Kenya, Namibia and coastal Yemen. The habitat consists of the coastal savannahs of southern and East Africa and the forests belonging to the Zanzibar-Inhambane floristic region.
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 lantanae is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa and Kenya.
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 rhynchosiae is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa. The habitat consists of the urban hills of Pretoria.
Phyllonorycter obandai is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from the Rift Valley in the Central and Western provinces of Kenya.
Phyllonorycter leucaspis is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Namibia. The habitat consists of richly vegetated valleys between 1,600 and 1,900 meters elevation dominated by Acacia hereroensis, Dombeya rotundifolia and Rhus species.
Micrurapteryx occulta is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is recorded from across North America in the northern half of the continent, in Canada from the Maritime Provinces to British Columbia, north to northernmost Yukon. In the United States it has been found in Connecticut, Kentucky, Illinois, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. The habitat consists of meadows, the edge of forests, open ponderosa pine forests, alpine meadows, the sea shore, and probably other habitats, from sea level to high elevations in the mountains, where suitable hosts occur.
Phyllonorycter ruizivorus is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found on La Réunion island in the Indian Ocean.
Cameraria fara is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found in Cameroon. The habitat consists of riparian woodland with high standing grass.
Cameraria landryi is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of Central African primary rain forest.
Cameraria torridella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found in the Rift Valley in Kenya. The habitat consists of areas at altitudes between 2,200–2,500 metres (7,200–8,200 ft), where green vegetation is present for 10 months of the year.
Phyllonorycter kazuri is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found in eastern Kenya where its habitat consists primarily of savannah, at an altitude of about 500 meters.
Porphyrosela desmodivora is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found in western Cameroon.