Phodoryctis thrypticosema

Phodoryctis thrypticosema is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa and Zimbabwe.[2]

Phodoryctis thrypticosema
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phodoryctis
Species:
P. thrypticosema
Binomial name
Phodoryctis thrypticosema
(Vári, 1961)[1]
Synonyms
  • Acrocercops thrypticosema Vári, 1961
  • Sauterina thrypticosema

The larvae feed on Craibia brevicaudata. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a moderate, irregular, narrowly oblong, semi-transparent blotch-mine on the upperside of the leaf.

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