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Phyllonorycter mwatawalai

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ7189151 ↗
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Phyllonorycter mwatawalai is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found in the Morogoro area of Tanzania. The habitat consists of a degraded savannah-like, natural biotope rich in low-growing woody Acacia trees and bushes and thick low dry herbarious vegetation. The area was surrounded by cultivated agricultural areas (orchards and maize fields).

The length of the forewings is 1.7 mm.

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This entry incorporates text from “Phyllonorycter mwatawalai” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.