Phyllonorycter melanosparta | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Phyllonorycter |
Species: | P. melanosparta |
Binomial name | |
Phyllonorycter melanosparta | |
Synonyms | |
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Phyllonorycter melanosparta is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa, Zimbabwe [2] and western Kenya. The habitat consists of secondary woodland where forest flora intermixes with savannah plants.
The length of the forewings is 2.5–2.8 mm. Adults are on wing from late December to late January and from late March to July. [3]
The larvae feed on Desmodium repandum , Flemingia grahamiana , Hylodesmum repandum , Rhynchosia caribaea and Vigna species. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a moderate, oval, semi-transparent, tentiform mine on the upperside of the leaf.
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 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 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.
Aristaea bathracma is a species of moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from China, Thailand, Japan (Honshū), the Russian Far East, Mozambique, South Africa, Réunion and Uganda.
Stomphastis aphrocyma 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 in China, where there are over ten overlapping generations per year.
Spulerina hexalocha is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Reunion, Sierra Leone and South Africa.
Phodoryctis thrypticosema is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Polysoma aenicta is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Zimbabwe.
Neolithocolletis pentadesma is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Indonesia (Java), Malaysia, the Philippines (Luzon) and the Seychelles.