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

Acrocercops hormista is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. 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 , , Cedrela toona and Toona ciliata. They probably mine the leaves of their host plant.

References[]

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

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[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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