Stomphastis tremina

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

Stomphastis tremina is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from South Africa and Namibia.[2]

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

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