Semnocera procellaris
Semnocera procellaris | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Semnocera |
Species: | S. procellaris |
Binomial name | |
Semnocera procellaris (Meyrick, 1914)[1] | |
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Semnocera procellaris is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from South Africa.[2]
The larvae feed on Ekebergia species. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a large, irregular, very oblong, transparent blotch-mine, beginning at or near the margin of the leaf as a wide gallery which soon widens into a blotch.