Dialectica cordiaecola

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

Dialectica cordiaecola is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from South Africa.[2]

The larvae feed on Cordia caffra. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of an irregular, semi-transparent blotch-mine. It is reddish-brown with a whitish margin.

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