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Acrocercops calycophthalma

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Acrocercops calycophthalma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Acrocercops
Species:
A. calycophthalma
Binomial name
Acrocercops calycophthalma

Acrocercops calycophthalma is a moth of the family Gracillariidae, known from Maharashtra and Karnataka, India.[1]

The hostplant for the species is Terminalia bellirica. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a blotch mine under the upper cuticle of the leaves. There may be up to seven larvae feeding in one mine.

References

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  1. ^ a b Acrocercops calycophthalma Meyrick, 1926 at the Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae.