Dialectica pyramidota

Dialectica pyramidota
Dialectica pyramidota
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Dialectica
Species: D. pyramidota
Binomial name
Dialectica pyramidota
Meyrick, 1918[1]
Synonyms
  • Acrocercops pyramidota Meyrick, 1918

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

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

References

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