Phyllonorycter grewiella | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Phyllonorycter |
Species: | P. grewiella
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Binomial name | |
Phyllonorycter grewiella (Vári, 1961)[1]
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Phyllonorycter grewiella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa,[2] Botswana, Kenya, Namibia and coastal Yemen. The habitat consists of the coastal savannahs of southern and East Africa and the forests belonging to the Zanzibar-Inhambane floristic region.
The length of the forewings is 2.4–2.8 mm. Adults have been reared and collected during every month of the year except August, October and December.[3]
The larvae feed on Grewia bicolor, Grewia flava, Grewia flavescens, Grewia hexamita, Grewia messinica, Grewia monticola and Grewia villosa. They mine the leaves of their host plant.