Acrocercops strigosa

Acrocercops strigosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Acrocercops
Species: A. strigosa
Binomial name
Acrocercops strigosa
Braun, 1914

Acrocercops strigosa is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is known from Quebec and the United States (Kentucky, North Carolina, Maine and Vermont).[1]

The larvae feed on Quercus alba and Quercus prinus. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine starts as a white gallery, which suddenly expands into a very large whitish blotch.

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