Dialectica pyramidota

Dialectica pyramidota is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa[2] and Réunion.

Dialectica pyramidota
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Dialectica
Species:
D. pyramidota
Binomial name
Dialectica pyramidota
Synonyms
  • Acrocercops pyramidota Meyrick, 1918

The larvae feed on Ehretia rigida. They probably mine the leaves of their host plant.


References
  1. Afrotropical Gracillariidae Archived August 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)


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