''Cosmopterix pararufella'' is a
moth of the family
Cosmopterigidae. It is known from
Spain,
Greece,
Corsica
Corsica ( , Upper , Southern ; it, Corsica; ; french: Corse ; lij, Còrsega; sc, Còssiga) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of ...
,
Crete,
Cyprus and
North Africa, including
Egypt.
The
wingspan is about 11 mm.
The larvae have been recorded feeding on ''
Saccharum officinarum''. They
mine
Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to:
Extraction or digging
* Miner, a person engaged in mining or digging
*Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine
Grammar
*Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun
...
the leaves of their host plant.
Infestation features of the leaf midrib miner, Cosmopterix pararufella Riedl (Lepidoptera: Cosmopterigidae), a pest of sugarcane in Egypt
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References
pararufella
Moths of Africa
Moths of Europe
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