Dialectica pavonicola

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

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

The larvae feed on Pavonia columella. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a large, irregular, transparent, whitish blotch-mine on the upperside of the leaf with a greenish-brown discoloration.

References

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

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