''Acrocercops ustulatella'' is a

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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 ...

. It is known from

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

(West Bengal) and

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

.Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
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e feed on ''

Diospyros ebenum ''Diospyros ebenum'', or Ceylon ebony ( si, කළුවර ''Kaluwara''), is a species of tree in the genus Diospyros and the family Ebenaceae. The tree produces valuable black wood. Description This middle-high evergreen tree grows very sl ...

'', '' Diospyros embryopteris'', ''

Diospyros malabarica ''Diospyros malabarica'', the gaub tree, Malabar ebony, black-and-white ebony or pale moon ebony, is a species of flowering tree in the family Ebenaceae that is native to the Indian Subcontinent and South East Asia. It is a long-lived, very slow ...

'' and ''

Diospyros montana ''Diospyros montana'', the Bombay ebony, is a small deciduous tree in the ebony family up to tall, distributed all along the Western Ghats of India, Sri Lanka, Indo-China through to Australia. References External resources Britannica''Dios ...

''. They probably

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the leaves of their host plant.

References

ustulatella Moths described in 1859 Moths of Asia {{Acrocercops-stub