Cameraria hexalobina

Cameraria hexalobina is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa[2] and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The habitat consists of savannah vegetation with high standing dry grass.

Cameraria hexalobina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Infraorder:
Heteroneura
Family:
Gracillariidae
Genus:
Cameraria
Species:
C. hexalobina
Binomial name
Cameraria hexalobina
(Vári, 1961)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithocolletis hexalobina Vári, 1961
  • Phyllonorycter hexalobina

The length of the forewings is 2.9–3.1 mm. The forewing ground colour is reddish ochreous with blackish fuscous markings, consisting of two transverse fasciae, one costal strigula and a marked blackish-fuscous area along the termen. The hindwings are pale ochreous greyish with long pale fringe slightly darker shaded than the hindwing.[3] Adults are on wing from late March to late April.

The larvae feed on Hexalobus glabrescens and Hexalobus monopetalus. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a large, oval or oblong, opaque, tentiform mine on the upperside of the leaf.

References
  1. Afrotropical Gracillariidae
  2. Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
  3. Systematics, revisionary taxonomy, and biodiversity of Afrotropical Lithocolletinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)


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