Acrocercops ficina

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Acrocercops ficina
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Acrocercops
Species:
A. ficina
Binomial name
Acrocercops ficina
Vári, 1961 [1]

Acrocercops ficina is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa and Namibia. [2]

The larvae feed on Ficus hippopotami , Ficus natalensis and Ficus trichopoda . They 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)