Cuphodes diospyri

Cuphodes diospyri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gracillariidae
Genus:	Cuphodes
Species:	C. diospyri
Binomial name
Cuphodes diospyri Vári, 1961[1]

Cuphodes diospyri is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from South Africa.^[2]

The larvae feed on Diospyros natalensis. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a small, very irregular, semi-transparent blotch-mine in a cluster usually near the top of the leaf.

References

1. ^ Afrotropical Gracillariidae
2. ^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)

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