Polysoma aenicta

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Polysoma aenicta
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Polysoma
Species:
P. aenicta
Binomial name
Polysoma aenicta
Vári, 1961 [1]

Polysoma aenicta is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Zimbabwe. [2]

The larvae feed on Albizia gummifera species. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a moderate, irregular, transparent blotch mine.

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