''Acrocercops praesecta'' 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

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922.Meyrick, E. 1922. Exotic Microlepidoptera. - Exotic Microlepidoptera (Marlborough) 2(18):545–576. The hostplants for the species include '' Ipomoea batatas'' and '' Merremia peltata''.

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praesecta Moths of Oceania Moths described in 1922 {{Acrocercops-stub