Acrocercops macrochalca

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Acrocercops macrochalca
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Acrocercops
Species:
A. macrochalca
Binomial name
Acrocercops macrochalca
Meyrick, 1910 [1]

Acrocercops macrochalca is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Mauritius. [2]

This species has a wingspan of 10mm, the head, thorax & palpi are white, abdomen light ochreous-grey. The forewings are very narrowly elongated, golden-orange fulvous with three snow-white spots. Hindwings are pale fuscous [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Afrotropical Gracillariidae Archived 2012-08-28 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
  3. ↑ Meyrick, E. 1910a. Descriptions of Micro-Lepidoptera from Mauritius and Chagos Isles. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1910(3):373–374.


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