Phyllonorycter melhaniae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Phyllonorycter |
Species: | P. melhaniae |
Binomial name | |
Phyllonorycter melhaniae (Meyrick, 1912)[1] |
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Phyllonorycter melhaniae is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Zimbabwe.[2]
The larvae feed on Melhania velutina. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a moderate, oblong, opaque, tentiform mine on the underside of the leaf.