Corythoxestis cyanolampra is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa.[2]
Corythoxestis cyanolampra | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Infraorder: | Heteroneura |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Corythoxestis |
Species: | C. cyanolampra |
Binomial name | |
Corythoxestis cyanolampra (Vári, 1961)[1] | |
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The larvae feed on Burchellia bubalina. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of an extremely long, narrow, irregularly contorted, purely epidermal gallery on the upper side of the leaf.
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