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Spulerina hexalocha

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Species of moth

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

Spulerina hexalocha is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Reunion, Sierra Leone and South Africa.

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

References

  1. Afrotropical Gracillariidae
  2. Bippus, M., 2019. New records of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) from the islands of Madagascar, Mauritius and Réunion. - Phelsuma 27 (2019); 18-35.
  3. Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Taxon identifiers
Spulerina hexalocha


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