Acrocercops combreticola

Acrocercops combreticola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gracillariidae
Genus:	Acrocercops
Species:	A. combreticola
Binomial name
	Acrocercops combreticola; Vári, 1961

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

The larvae feed on Combretum apiculatum. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a large, irregular, oblong, transparent, whitish blotch-mine on the upperside of the leaf.

References

^ Afrotropical Gracillariidae Archived August 28, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
^ Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)^{[permanent dead link]}

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[1] Afrotropical Gracillariidae Archived August 28, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

[2] Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)^{[permanent dead link]}

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