Acrocercops ficina

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

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

The larvae feed on Ficus hippopotami, Ficus natalensis and Ficus trichopoda. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a moderate, irregular, whitish, epidermal blotch-mine on the upperside of the leaf.

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