Liocrobyla tephrosiae

Liocrobyla tephrosiae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Infraorder:	Heteroneura
Family:	Gracillariidae
Genus:	Liocrobyla
Species:	L. tephrosiae
Binomial name
	Liocrobyla tephrosiae; Vári, 1961

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

The larvae feed on Tephrosia polystachya. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a very irregular, semi-transparent blotch-mine without a gallery.

References

^ Afrotropical Gracillariidae Archived 2012-08-11 at the Wayback Machine
^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)^{[permanent dead link]}

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[1] Afrotropical Gracillariidae Archived 2012-08-11 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)^{[permanent dead link]}

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