''Acrobasis tricolorella'' is a species of
snout moth in the genus ''
Acrobasis''. It was described by
Hiroshi Inoue in 1982. It is found in
Japan
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Taxonomy
The species was first described as ''Conobathra tricolorella''. When moved to ''Acrobasis'', the name ''tricolorella'' was preoccupied by ''
Acrobasis tricolorella
''Acrobasis tricolorella'', the destructive prune worm or tricolored acrobasis moth, is a species of snout moth in the genus ''Acrobasis''. It was described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1878, and is known from southern Canada and northern Unite ...
'', an unrelated North American species discovered in 1878. In 2012 Chinese lepidopterist Ying-Dang Ren proposed ''A. inouei'' as a replacement name.
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References
Moths described in 1982
Acrobasis
Moths of Asia
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