Phyllonorycter loxozona

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Phyllonorycter loxozona
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species:
P. loxozona
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter loxozona
(Meyrick, 1936) [1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis loxozonaMeyrick, 1936

Phyllonorycter loxozona is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa and Uganda. [2] The record for Kenya is a misidentification of Cameraria torridella .

The length of the forewings is 2.8–3.2 mm. The forewings are elongate and the ground colour is ochreous brown with white markings. The hindwings are fuscous with a long shiny fringe of the same colour as the hindwing. Adults are on wing from early February to mid-May and from early October to mid-December. [3]

The larvae feed on Dombeya bagshawei , Dombeya emarginata and Dombeya rotundifolia . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a long, narrow gallery, mainly along the edge of the leaf. Later the larvae form a gall-like swelling near the base of the disc.

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