''Acrocercops marmaritis'' 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

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

. It was described by

Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham (29 July 1843 – 3 December 1919), of Merton Hall, Norfolk, was an English politician and amateur entomologist. Biography Walsingham was the son of Thomas de Grey, 5th Baron Walsingham, and Augusta-Louisa ...

, in 1914.Walsingham, Lord (Thomas de Grey) 1914. Insecta. Lepidoptera-Heterocera.Tineina, Pterophorina, Orneodina, and Pyralidina and Hepialina (part.). - Biologia Centrali-Americana, Lepidoptera-Heterocera 4(1909–1915):225–392, 9–10 pls.

References

marmaritis Moths of Central America Moths described in 1914 {{Acrocercops-stub