Stomphastis polygoni

Stomphastis polygoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Stomphastis
Species: S. polygoni
Binomial name
Stomphastis polygoni
Vári, 1961[1]

Stomphastis polygoni is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from China (Hong Kong, Yunnan, Hainan and Guangdong) and Zimbabwe.[2]

The larvae feed on Polygonum setosulum. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a rather large, very irregular, oblong, transparent blotch mine which starts as a long, narrow gallery.

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