Phyllonorycter stephanota

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Phyllonorycter stephanota
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species:
P. stephanota
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter stephanota
(Meyrick, 1907) [1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis stephanotaMeyrick, 1907

Phyllonorycter stephanota is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from New South Wales and Queensland in Australia. [2]

The larvae feed on Abutilon , Hibiscus , Malvastrum (including Malvastrum spicatum ) and Sida species (including Sida subspicata ). They probably mine the leaves of their host plant. [2]

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