Acrocercops terminalina

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

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

The larvae feed on Terminalia silozensis. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a large, irregular, transparent, whitish blotch-mine with purely epidermal areas, with some yellowish discoloration along the margin.

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