Platylesches picanini Holland 1894

Platylesches picanini Holland, 1894 In 1989, S.E. Woodhall reared this species from Pa. curatellifolia in Venda (now part of Limpopo Province in the far north of South Africa) (Woodhall 1994). This food plant record is repeated in Pringle et al . (1994), Henning et al . (1997), Woodhall (2005) and Larsen (2005). Woodhall (1994) notes that ‘the larvae inhabited leaf shelters in which the leaf was cut at either end of the shelter and with the edge of the leaf pulled across to touch the leaf surface. The joint was closed by means of many very fine, short, brown silk threads, concealing the larva.... Mehr ...