Acrocercops insulella

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Acrocercops insulella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Acrocercops
Species:
A. insulella
Binomial name
Acrocercops insulella
(Walsingham, 1891) [1]

Acrocercops insulella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae, known from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the Dominican Republic. [1] It was described by Walsingham, Lord Thomas de Grey in 1891. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Acrocercops insulella (Walsingham, 1891) at the Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae.
  2. Walsingham, Lord (Thomas de Grey) 1891e. On the Micro-Lepidoptera of the West Indies. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 37:492–549, pl. 41.