Dialectica columellina

Dialectica columellina
Dialectica columellina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Dialectica
Species: D. columellina
Binomial name
Dialectica columellina
(Vári, 1961)[1]
Synonyms
  • Acrocercops columellina Vári, 1961

Dialectica columellina is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from South Africa.[2]

The larvae feed on Pavonia columella. They probably mine the leaves of their host plant.

References

  1. ^ Afrotropical Gracillariidae
  2. ^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
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