Biology:Dialectica malvacea

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Short description: Species of moth

Dialectica malvacea
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Subfamily: Acrocercopinae
Genus: Dialectica
Species:
D. malvacea
Binomial name
Dialectica malvacea
(Walsingham, 1907)[1]
Synonyms
  • Acrocercops malvacea Walsingham, 1907
  • Acrocercops malveus Caradja, 1920

Dialectica malvacea is a moth of the family Gracillariidae, known from Morocco.[1] It was described by Walsingham, Lord Thomas de Grey, in 1907 as Acrocercops malvacea.[2] The host plants are for this species of moth are Lavatera olbia and Malva species.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 De Prins, J.; De Prins, W.. "Dialectica malvacea (Walsingham, 1907)". https://www.gracillariidae.net/species/648. 
  2. Walsingham, Lord (Thomas de Grey) 1908b. Microlepidoptera of Tenerife. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1907:911–1034, pls. 51–53.

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