Dialectica ehretiae

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

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

The larvae feed on Ehretia cymosa var. abyssinica and Ehretia rigida. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of an irregular, oblong, moderate, almost purely epidermal blotch-mine on the upperside of the leaf. It is slightly reddish-brown with a whitish margin.

References

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