Acrocercops syzygiena

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

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

The larvae feed on Syzygium cordatum. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a large, irregular, semi-transparent blotch-mine, reddish-brown mixed with blackish above, the underside is brownish.

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