Acrocercops homalacta

Acrocercops homalacta is a moth of the family Gracillariidae, known from Guadalcanal and Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands, as well as Samoa.[1] It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1927.

Acrocercops homalacta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gracillariidae
Genus: Acrocercops
Species:
A. homalacta
Binomial name
Acrocercops homalacta

This species is closely allied to the Indian Acrocercops cathedraea and the African Acrocercops bifasciata.[2]

References
  1. Acrocercops homalacta Meyrick, 1927 at the Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae.
  2. Meyrick, E. 1927b. Insects of Samoa. Part III. Fasc. 2. Micro-Lepidoptera. - — :65–116.


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