Leaf blotch miner moth
| Leaf blotch miner moth | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gracillariidae |
| Genus: | Acrocercops |
| Species: | A. brongniardella |
| Binomial name | |
| Acrocercops brongniardella Fabricius, 1798 | |
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The leaf blotch miner moth (Acrocercops brongniardella) is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found in Europe, including Turkey.
The wingspan is 8–10 mm The moth has light to dark brown forewings with a pure white pattern of oblique bars edged with black.The cilia are grey.The head is brownish. The antennae are longer than forewing length. The hindwings are brownish-grey. Meyrick describes it " O. brongniardellum, F. 8-10 mm. Posterior tibiae bristly above. Forewings fuscous, sprinkled with yellow-whitish; four slender oblique white fasciae, edged with black, more strongly anteriorly, last three interrupted near dorsum; a black projecting hook in apical cilia. Hindwings dark grey. Larva pale whitish-green; dorsal line darker; head pale brown: in blotches in leaves of oak; 6,7. "
The adults sit with their front legs stretched out to hold the head and thorax slanted up. The moths can be found in any month, probably in one extended brood.