Acrocercops macrochalca
Acrocercops macrochalca | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Acrocercops |
Species: | A. macrochalca |
Binomial name | |
Acrocercops macrochalca Meyrick, 1910[1] | |
Acrocercops macrochalca is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Mauritius.[2]
This species has a wingspan of 10mm, the head, thorax & palpi are white, abdomen light ochreous-grey. The forewings are very narrowly elongated, golden-orange fulvous with three snow-white spots. Hindwings are pale fuscous[3]
References
- ↑ Afrotropical Gracillariidae
- ↑ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
- ↑ Meyrick, E. 1910a. Descriptions of Micro-Lepidoptera from Mauritius and Chagos Isles. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1910(3):373–374.
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