Dialectica cordiaecola

Dialectica cordiaecola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gracillariidae
Genus:	Dialectica
Species:	D. cordiaecola
Binomial name
Dialectica cordiaecola Vári, 1961[1]

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

The larvae feed on Cordia caffra. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of an irregular, semi-transparent blotch-mine. It is reddish-brown with a whitish margin.

References

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

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