| Ectropina acidula | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gracillariidae |
| Genus: | Ectropina |
| Species: | E. acidula |
| Binomial name | |
| Ectropina acidula (Meyrick, 1911) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Ectropina acidula is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Bihar, India. [1]
The wingspan is 6–6.2 mm.
The larvae feed on Phyllanthus emblica . They probably mine the leaves of their host plant.
Gracillarioidea is a large superfamily containing four families of insects in the order Lepidoptera. These generally small moths are miners in plant tissue as caterpillars. There are about 113 described genera distributed worldwide, the most commonly encountered of which are leaf miners in the family Gracillariidae.
Gracillariidae is an important family of insects in the order Lepidoptera and the principal family of leaf miners that includes several economic, horticultural or recently invasive pest species such as the horse-chestnut leaf miner, Cameraria ohridella.
Epicephala is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Phyllocnistis is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Marmara is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.
Stomphastis thraustica is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Central African Republic, Ghana, Nigeria, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Madagascar, Malaysia, Indonesia and India. It was recently also recorded from China.
Phodoryctis caerulea is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from India, Malaysia (Sabah), Indonesia (Java), Sri Lanka, Fiji, Guam, the Solomon Islands, Japan and Taiwan, as well as Tanzania.
Dialectica geometra is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Hong Kong, Japan, India and Réunion. It has recently been recorded from China.
Gibbovalva civica is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from China (Guangdong), India (Karnataka), Japan, Malaysia.
Melanocercops ficuvorella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Guangdong, China, and from India and Japan.
Telamoptilia prosacta is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia (Java), India (Bihar), Japan and Fiji.
Spulerina dissotoma is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from India (Bihar), Japan, Korea, the Russian Far East and Taiwan.
Corythoxestis sunosei is a moth of the family Gracillariidae, known from Japan (Kyūshū) and China.
Phyllonorycter jozanae is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Hokkaidō island in Japan and from the Russian Far East.
Eteoryctis deversa is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from India, Japan, Korea, the Russian Far East and Taiwan.
Acrocercops unistriata is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Nepal and Taiwan.
Acrocercops transecta is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Japan, Korea, the Russian Far East and Taiwan.
Macrosaccus morrisella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. In North America it is known from Manitoba and Ontario south and west to Texas and Colorado.
Macrosaccus uhlerella is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Illinois, Missouri, New York, Colorado and Texas in the United States.
Gracillariinae are a subfamily of moths which was described by Henry Tibbats Stainton in 1854.
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