Spulerina hexalocha

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Spulerina hexalocha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Spulerina
Species: S. hexalocha
Binomial name
Spulerina hexalocha
(Meyrick, 1912)[1]
Synonyms
  • Acrocercops hexalocha Meyrick, 1912

Spulerina hexalocha is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Sierra Leone and South Africa.[2]

The larvae feed on Sclerocarya birrea and Sclerocarya caffra. They probably mine the leaves of their host plant.

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