Aristaea onychota

Aristaea onychota
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gracillariidae
Genus:	Aristaea
Species:	A. onychota
Binomial name
	Aristaea onychota; (Meyrick, 1908)
Synonyms
	Macarostola onychota Meyrick, 1908 ;

Aristaea onychota is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Nigeria, Réunion,^[2] São Tomé and Príncipe, South Africa and Zambia.^[3]

The larvae feed on Lantana camara, , and .^[3] They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a moderate, oblong, semi-transparent, tentiform mine on the upper side of the leaf.

References[]

^ Afrotropical Gracillariidae Archived March 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
^ Bippus, M., 2019. New records of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) from the islands of Madagascar, Mauritius and Réunion. - Phelsuma 27 (2019); 18-35.
^ ^a ^b Aristaea onychota (Meyrick, 1908), AfroMoths, an online database of Afrotropical moth species

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[1] Afrotropical Gracillariidae Archived March 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

[2] Bippus, M., 2019. New records of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) from the islands of Madagascar, Mauritius and Réunion. - Phelsuma 27 (2019); 18-35.

[afro-3] Aristaea onychota (Meyrick, 1908), AfroMoths, an online database of Afrotropical moth species

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