Acrocercops ochnifolii

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

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

The larvae feed on Ochna natalitia . They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a moderate, irregularly oblong, pale ochreous, transparent blotch-mine, with epidermal parts along the margin.

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