Metriochroa inferior

Species of moth

Metriochroa inferior
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Metriochroa
Species:
M. inferior
Binomial name
Metriochroa inferior
(Silvestri, 1915)[1]
Synonyms
  • Oecophyllembius inferior Silvestri, 1915

Metriochroa inferior is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Eritrea.[2]

The larvae feed on Olea chrysophylla.[3] They probably mine the leaves of their host plant.

References

  1. ^ Afrotropical Gracillariidae
  2. ^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
  3. ^ Silvestri, 1915. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia generale e agraria della R. Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura de Portici 9: 240-334
Taxon identifiers
Metriochroa inferior
  • Wikidata: Q6824371
  • Wikispecies: Metriochroa inferior
  • AfroMoths: METRINFE
  • CoL: 42J2V
  • EoL: 305659
  • GBIF: 1749383
  • Open Tree of Life: 3038831


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