Acrocercops nitidula

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Acrocercops nitidula
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Acrocercops
Species:
A. nitidula
Binomial name
Acrocercops nitidula
(Stainton, 1862) [1]

Acrocercops nitidula is a moth of the family Gracillariidae, known from West Bengal, India. [1] It was described by Henry Tibbats Stainton in 1919. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Acrocercops nitidula (Stainton, 1862) at the Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae.
  2. Stainton, H. T. 1862. Descriptions of nine exotic species of the genus Gracilaria [sic]. - Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (series 3) 1(3):291–300.