Conopomorphina ochnivora

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

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

The larvae feed on Ochna pulchra. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a moderate, irregular, transparent blotch-mine in young leaves.

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