Acrocercops hormista

Acrocercops hormista
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Acrocercops
Species: A. hormista
Binomial name
Acrocercops hormista
Meyrick, 1916[1]

Acrocercops hormista is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from India (Karnataka, Bihar) and Madagascar.[2]

This species has a wingspan of 10mm, head and thorax are whitish grey, abdomen grey. Forewings are narrowly allongated, pale greyish, irregularly irrorated with dark fuscous. Hindwings and cilia are grey.[3]

The larvae feed on Psiadia altissima, Psiadia dodonaeifolia, Cedrela toona and Toona ciliata. They probably mine the leaves of their host plant.

References

  1. ↑ Afrotropical Gracillariidae Archived August 28, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
  3. ↑ Meyrick, 1916, Exotic microlepidoptera, v. 2, page: 3


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