Corethrovalva allophylina

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

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

The larvae feed on Allophylus transvaalensis. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a moderate, irregular, whitish, transparent blotch-mine. It is oblong or more or less rounded.

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