Dialectica japonica

Dialectica japonica
Dialectica japonica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Dialectica
Species: D. japonica
Binomial name
Dialectica japonica
Kumata & Kuroko, 1988[1]

Dialectica japonica is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Japan (Kyūshū).[2]

The wingspan is 7.5-8.6 mm.[3]

The larvae feed on Ehretia ovalifolia. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

References

  1. ^ Japanese Moths
  2. ^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
  3. ^ Japanese species of the Acrocercops-group (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae). Part I
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