''Acrocercops iraniana'' 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

Gracillariidae Gracillariidae is an important family of insects in the order Lepidoptera and the principal family of leaf miners that includes several economic, horticultural or recently invasive pest species such as the horse-chestnut leaf miner, ''Cameraria ...

, known from

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. It was described by P. Tiberti in 1990.Triberti, P. 1990. Three new Palaearctic species of the subfamily Gracillariinae (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae). - Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen 41(3–4):65–70.

References

iraniana Moths of the Middle East Moths described in 1990 {{Acrocercops-stub