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Corythoxestis cyanolampra

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gracillariidae

Scientific name
  
Corythoxestis cyanolampra

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Corythoxestis

Rank
  
Species

Corythoxestis cyanolampra is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from South Africa.

The larvae feed on Burchellia bubalina. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of an extremely long, narrow, irregularly contorted, purely epidermal gallery on the upper side of the leaf.

References

Corythoxestis cyanolampra Wikipedia