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Eucosmophora dives

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Species of moth

Eucosmophora dives
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Eucosmophora
Species: E. dives
Binomial name
Eucosmophora dives
Walsingham, 1897
Synonyms
  • Acrocercops dives

Eucosmophora dives is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Barbados, the British Virgin Islands (Tortola), the Dominican Republic, Grenada and Puerto Rico.

The length of the forewings is 3.3–3.7 mm for males and 3.5–4 mm for females.

The larvae feed on Inga fagifolia, Inga vera and Pithecollobium unguis-cati. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

References

  1. Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
  2. Biology and systematics of the neotropical leafminer genus Eucosmophora (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)
Taxon identifiers
Eucosmophora dives


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