''Cameraria torridella'' is a

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of the family

Gracillariidae Gracillariidae is an important family of insects in the order Lepidoptera and the principal family of leaf miners that includes several economic, horticultural or recently invasive pest species such as the horse-chestnut leaf miner, ''Camerar ...

. It is found in the

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Kenya ) , national_anthem = " Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi ...

. The habitat consists of areas at altitudes between , where green vegetation is present for 10 months of the year. The length of the forewings is . The forewings are elongate and the ground colour is shiny ochreous with white markings consisting of a basal streak, two fascia, two costal and one dorsal strigulae. The hindwings are light fuscous with a long light ochreous shiny fringe. Adults are on wing in early March and from late October to early December. The larvae feed as

leaf miner A leaf miner is any one of numerous species of insects in which the larval stage lives in, and eats, the leaf tissue of plants. The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths ( Lepidoptera), sawflies ( Symphyta, the mother clade of wasp ...

s on ''

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''. The mine is tentiform and made on the underside of the

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Etymology

The name is derived from the specific name of the

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plant, coupled with the diminutive Latin suffix –''ella''.

References

Moths described in 2012 torridella Endemic moths of Kenya Moths of Africa Leaf miners Taxa named by Jurate de Prins {{Cameraria-stub