Aristaea onychota

Aristaea onychota
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gracillariidae
Genus:	Aristaea
Species:	A. onychota
Binomial name
	Aristaea onychota; (Meyrick, 1908)[1]
Synonyms
	Macarostola onychota Meyrick, 1908 ;

Aristaea onychota is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Nigeria, Réunion,[2] São Tomé and Príncipe, South Africa and Zambia.[3]

The larvae feed on Lantana camara, Lantana rugosa, Lippia asperifolia and Lippia javanica.[3] They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a moderate, oblong, semi-transparent, tentiform mine on the upper side of the leaf.

References

Afrotropical Gracillariidae Archived March 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
Bippus, M., 2019. New records of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) from the islands of Madagascar, Mauritius and Réunion. - Phelsuma 27 (2019); 18-35.
Aristaea onychota (Meyrick, 1908), AfroMoths, an online database of Afrotropical moth species

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[1] Afrotropical Gracillariidae Archived March 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

[2] Bippus, M., 2019. New records of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) from the islands of Madagascar, Mauritius and Réunion. - Phelsuma 27 (2019); 18-35.

[afro-3] Aristaea onychota (Meyrick, 1908), AfroMoths, an online database of Afrotropical moth species