Acrocercops malvacea

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Acrocercops malvacea
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Acrocercops
Species:
A. malvacea
Binomial name
Acrocercops malvacea
Walsingham, 1907 [1]
Synonyms
  • Acrocercops malveusCaradja, 1920

Acrocercops malvacea is a moth of the family Gracillariidae, known from Morocco. [1] It was described by Walsingham, Lord Thomas de Grey, in 1907. [2] The hostplant for the species is Lavatera olbia and Malva species.

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References

  1. 1 2 Acrocercops malvacea Walsingham, 1907 at the Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae.
  2. Walsingham, Lord (Thomas de Grey) 1908b. Microlepidoptera of Tenerife. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1907:911–1034, pls. 51–53.