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Acrocercops hormista

Wikipedia Abstract

Acrocercops hormista is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from India (Karnataka, Bihar) and Madagascar. This species has a wingspan of 10mm, head and thorax are whitish grey, abdomen grey. Forewings are narrowly allongated, pale greyish, irregularly irrorated with dark fuscous. Hindwings and cilia are grey. The larvae feed on Psiadia altissima, Psiadia dodonaeifolia, Cedrela toona and Toona ciliata. They probably mine the leaves of their host plant.
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Prey / Diet

Toona ciliata (Australian redcedar)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Hemilecanium imbricans1

External References

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Attributes / relations provided by
1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0