Semnocera procellaris

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

Semnocera procellaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Infraorder:
Heteroneura
Family:
Gracillariidae
Genus:
Semnocera
Species:
S. procellaris
Binomial name
Semnocera procellaris
(Meyrick, 1914)[1]
Synonyms
  • Acrocercops procellaris Meyrick, 1914

The larvae feed on Ekebergia species. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a large, irregular, very oblong, transparent blotch-mine, beginning at or near the margin of the leaf as a wide gallery which soon widens into a blotch.

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


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