Amblyptila strophanthina
Amblyptila strophanthina | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Amblyptila |
Species: | A. strophanthina
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Binomial name | |
Amblyptila strophanthina Vári, 1961[1]
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Amblyptila strophanthina is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa.[2]
The larvae feed on Strophanthus species. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a moderate, irregularly rounded or oval, transparent blotch-mine.
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Categories:
- Endemic moths of South Africa
- Acrocercopinae
- Moths described in 1961
- Moths of Africa
- Acrocercopinae stubs