Acrocercops Hormista
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''Acrocercops hormista'' is a
moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
of the family
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. It is known from
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(Karnataka, Bihar) and
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. 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.Meyrick, 1916, ''Exotic microlepidoptera'', v. 2, page: 3
The
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e feed on ''
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'', '' Psiadia dodonaeifolia'', ''
Cedrela toona ''Toona ciliata'' is a forest tree in the mahogany family which grows throughout southern Asia from Afghanistan to Papua New Guinea and Australia. Names It is commonly known as the red cedar (a name shared by other trees), toon or toona (also a ...
'' and ''
Toona ciliata ''Toona ciliata'' is a forest tree in the mahogany family which grows throughout southern Asia from Afghanistan to Papua New Guinea and Australia. Names It is commonly known as the red cedar (a name shared by other trees), toon or toona (also ...
''. They probably
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the leaves of their host plant.


References

hormista Moths described in 1916 Taxa named by Edward Meyrick Moths of Madagascar Moths of Asia {{Acrocercops-stub