Acrocercops panacifinens

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Acrocercops panacifinens
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Acrocercops
Species:
A. panacifinens
Binomial name
Acrocercops panacifinens
(Watt, 1920)
Synonyms
  • Parectopa panacifinensWatt, 1920 [1]
  • Eumetriochroa panacifinens(Watt, 1920)

Acrocercops panacifinens [2] or Eumetriochroa panacifinens [3] [4] is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. [3] [4] In 2019 Robert Hoare and colleagues proposed that this species be provisionally assigned to the genus Eumetriochroa . [5]

The wingspan is about 10 mm for females and 8 mm for males. [1] The larvae feed on Neopanax arboreus and probably N. colensoi . [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Watt, M. N. (1920). "The leaf-mining insects of New Zealand". Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 52: 439–466. Also available at New Zealand National Library
  2. ↑ Acrocercops panacifinens (Watt, 1920) in New Zealand Organisms Register (NZOR)
  3. 1 2 Eumetriochroa panacifinens (Watt, 1920) in New Zealand Organisms Register (NZOR)
  4. 1 2 De Prins, J. & De Prins, W., eds. (2024). "Eumetriochroa panacifinens (Watt, 1920)". Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae. Belspo, Brussels, Belgium: Belgian Biodiversity Platform. doi:10.48580/d4sb-397 . Retrieved 20 September 2024.
  5. 1 2 Robert J. B. Hoare; Brian H Patrick; Thomas R. Buckley (22 July 2019). "A new leaf-mining moth from New Zealand, Sabulopteryx botanica sp. nov. (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Gracillariinae), feeding on the rare endemic shrub Teucrium parvifolium (Lamiaceae), with a revised checklist of New Zealand Gracillariidae". ZooKeys . 865: 39–65. doi: 10.3897/ZOOKEYS.865.34265 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   6663935 . PMID   31379443. Wikidata   Q70104394.


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