Acrocercops tacita

Acrocercops tacita
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Acrocercops
Species: A. tacita
Binomial name
Acrocercops tacita
Triberti, 2001[1]

Acrocercops tacita is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Greece (including the Peloponnisos and Rhodes) and Lebanon.

The larvae feed on Quercus coccifera. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a blotch mine on the underside of the leaf.[2]

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