Acrolepiopsis heppneri

Acrolepiopsis heppneri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Acrolepiidae
Genus: Acrolepiopsis
Species: A. heppneri
Binomial name
Acrolepiopsis heppneri
Gaedike, 1984

Acrolepiopsis heppneri is a moth of the Acrolepiidae family. It is found from Connecticut and New Hampshire in the east, south to Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, and west to Illinois.[1]

The length of the forewings 5–5.6 mm.

Larvae have been reared on Smilax tamnoides. They skeletonize the underside of a leaf of their host plant from within a black, frass-covered silken tube. placed alongside a leaf vein. The larvae are pale green with a pale brownish-yellow head.

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