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.

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