Phyllonorycter melhaniae

Phyllonorycter melhaniae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Phyllonorycter
Species: P. melhaniae
Binomial name
Phyllonorycter melhaniae
(Meyrick, 1912)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis melhaniae Meyrick, 1912

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.

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