Acalyptris pyrenaica

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Acalyptris pyrenaica
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nepticulidae
Genus: Acalyptris
Species:
A. pyrenaica
Binomial name
Acalyptris pyrenaica
A. & Z. Laštůvka, 1993

Acalyptris pyrenaica is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known from the Pyrenees in Spain and the Eifel region in Germany.

The wingspan is 4–5.6 mm.

The immature stages are unknown, but adults were caught by sweeping grassland vegetation from May to July. The habitat consists of limestone grassland in the Eifel mountains and a mountain pasture in the Pyrenees.[1]

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