Acrocercops cyphostacta explained

Acrocercops cyphostacta is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Indonesia (Java).[1]

Original description

Wingspan 6 mm. Head white. Palpi smooth, white, with dark fuscous rings at apex of second joint and above middle of terminal. Thorax white, shoulders with a brown spot. Abdomen greyish, beneath white, sides with oblique dark fuscous marks. Forewings very narrow, moderately pointed, acute; ochreous-brown; four white fasciae slightly sprinkled with black specks and edged with black irroration, first at 1/3, moderate, oblique, rather curved, connected with base by a fine white dorsal streak, second beyond middle, narrower, rather oblique, third at 3 /4, narrow, expanded on costa, interrupted in middle with black irroration to form two small spots, fourth praeapical, slender, partially interrupted by black scales: cilia whitish-grey, round apex whitish with blackish subbasal line. Hindwings grey; cilia light grey. Java, Pekalongan (van Deventer); one specimen. Nearest to Acrocercops orthostatic.[2]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.gracillariidae.net/species_by_code/ACROCYPH Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
  2. http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/149957 XIV. - New Micro-Lepidoptera By E. Meyrick