Dialectica japonica

Dialectica japonica is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Kyūshū, Japan.[2]

Dialectica japonica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Dialectica
Species:
D. japonica
Binomial name
Dialectica japonica
Kumata & Kuroko, 1988[1]

The wingspan is 7.5–8.6 mm.[3]

The larvae feed on Ehretia ovalifolia. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

References
  1. Japanese Moths
  2. Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
  3. Japanese species of the Acrocercops-group (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae). Part I


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