Acrocercops gossypii

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

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

The larvae feed on Gossypium herbaceum and Gossypium hirsutum. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a large, irregular, transparent blotch-mine, with yellowish-brown discolorations and a whitish margin.

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