Phyllonorycter grewiella

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Phyllonorycter grewiella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species:
P. grewiella
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter grewiella
(Vári, 1961) [1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis grewiellaVári, 1961

Phyllonorycter grewiella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa, [2] 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.

The length of the forewings is 2.4–2.8 mm. The forewings are ochreous dark golden with a metallic shine and with white markings. The hindwings are greyish fuscous with a long pale golden shiny fringe. Adults have been reared and collected during every month of the year except August, October and December. [3]

The larvae feed on Grewia bicolor , Grewia flava , Grewia flavescens , Grewia hexamita , Grewia messinica , Grewia monticola and Grewia villosa . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a moderate, oval or oblong, opaque tentiform mine, usually on the upperside of the leaf. The frass is black and deposited loose in mine. Pupation takes place without a cocoon.

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