Afrotropical Gracillariidae

by Jurate De Prins - Royal Museum for Central Africa

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Phyllonorycter grewiella (Vári, 1961)
 
Original description:
"Lithocolletis grewiella spec. nov." --- Vári, 1961. Transvaal Museum Memoir 12 (South African Lepidoptera, I. Lithocolletidae), p. 213-214, pl. 22, fig. 8; pl. 65, fig. 5; pl. 104, fig. 3.
Type locality: South Africa, Transvaal, Kruger National Park, Malelane.
Type specimens:
Holotype male, Allotype female, Paratypes 3 males, TMSA.
Foodplants:
Grewia flavescens Juss., G. hexamita, G. messinica Burtt Davy & Greenway [Tiliaceae] (Vári 1961, BMNH database).
Distribution:
Afrotropical: South Africa.
 
Picture:Phyllonorycter grewiella adult