Dialectica geometra: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gracillariidae
- Genus
- Dialectica
- Species
- Dialectica geometra
- Scientific Name
- Dialectica geometra
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Dialectica geometra
Dialectica geometra is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Hong Kong, Japan (the Ryukyu Islands), India (West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh) and Réunion. It has recently been recorded from China.
The wingspan is 6.5–8.2 mm.
The larvae feed on Cordia amplifolia, Cordia myxa, Ehretia laevis and Ehretia species, including Ehretia microphylla. They mine the leaves of their host plant.
...Dialectica geometra in languages:
- Japanese
- フクマンギホソガ
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Dialectica aemula
- Dialectica anselmella
- Dialectica carcharota
- Dialectica columellina
- Dialectica cordiaecola
- Dialectica cordiella
- Dialectica ehretiae
- Dialectica galactozona
- Dialectica galapagosensis
- Dialectica geometra
- Dialectica hedemanni
- Dialectica imperialella
- Dialectica japonica
- Dialectica odontosema
- Dialectica pavonicola
- Dialectica permixtella
- Dialectica praegemina
- Dialectica pyramidota
- Dialectica rendalli
- Dialectica sanctaecrucis
- Dialectica scalariella
- Dialectica soffneri
- Dialectica trigonidota