Spulerina dissotoma

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Spulerina dissotoma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Spulerina
Species:
S. dissotoma
Binomial name
Spulerina dissotoma
(Meyrick, 1931) [1]
Synonyms
  • Acrocercops dissotomaMeyrick, 1931
  • Spulerina lespedezifoliellaKuroko, 1982

Spulerina dissotoma is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from India (Bihar), Japan (Honshū, Kyūshū, Shikoku, Tusima, Hokkaidō and the Ryukyu Islands), Korea, the Russian Far East and Taiwan. [2]

The wingspan is 5.8-7.6 mm.

The larvae feed on Flemingia lineata , Lespedeza bicolor , Lespedeza cyrtobotrya and Pueraria montana . They mine the leaves of their host plant.

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