Cuphodes diospyri
Cuphodes diospyri | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Cuphodes |
Species: | C. diospyri
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Binomial name | |
Cuphodes diospyri Vári, 1961[1]
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Cuphodes diospyri 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 small, very irregular, semi-transparent blotch-mine in a cluster usually near the top of the leaf.
References[]
Categories:
- Endemic moths of South Africa
- Cuphodes
- Moths of Africa
- Moths described in 1961
- Gracillariinae stubs