| Phyllonorycter loxozona | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gracillariidae |
| Genus: | Phyllonorycter |
| Species: | P. loxozona |
| Binomial name | |
| Phyllonorycter loxozona (Meyrick, 1936)[1] |
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Phyllonorycter loxozona is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Kenya, South Africa and Uganda.[2]
The larvae feed on Dombeya bagshawei, Dombeya emarginata and Dombeya rotundifolia. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a long, narrow gallery, mainly along the edge of the leaf. Later the larvae form a gall-like swelling near the base of the disc.