Acrocercops attenuatum

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Acrocercops attenuatum
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Acrocercops
Species:
A. attenuatum
Binomial name
Acrocercops attenuatum
(Walsingham, 1897) [1]
Synonyms
  • Acrocercops attenuataForbes, 1930

Acrocercops attenuatum is a moth of the family Gracillariidae, known from Saint Thomas Island, in the Virgin Islands. [1] The hostplant for the species is Croton flavens .

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References

  1. 1 2 Acrocercops attenuatum (Walsingham, 1897) at the Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae.