Semnocera procellaris

Semnocera procellaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Semnocera
Species: S. procellaris
Binomial name
Semnocera procellaris
(Meyrick, 1914)[1]
Synonyms
  • Acrocercops procellaris Meyrick, 1914

Semnocera procellaris is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from South Africa.[2]

The larvae feed on Ekebergia species. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a large, irregular, very oblong, transparent blotch-mine, beginning at or near the margin of the leaf as a wide gallery which soon widens into a blotch.

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