Acrocercops chrysophylli

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

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

The larvae feed on Chrysophyllum gorungosanum. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a moderate, irregular, pale ochreous, transparent blotch-mine, with a long, narrow, epidermal gallery on the upperside of the leaf.

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