Caloptilia vibrans
Caloptilia vibrans | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Caloptilia |
Species: | C. vibrans
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Binomial name | |
Caloptilia vibrans | |
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Caloptilia vibrans is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa.[2]
The larvae feed on . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a narrow, very oblong, transparent or semi-transparent mine, either along midrib and veins or along edge of leaf.
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Categories:
- Endemic moths of South Africa
- Caloptilia
- Moths of Africa
- Moths described in 1918
- Caloptilia stubs