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Acrocercops calycophthalma

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gracillariidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Acrocercops

Scientific name
  
Acrocercops calycophthalma

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

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.

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Acrocercops calycophthalma Wikipedia