1. PaDIL Species Factsheet

Scientific Name: sp. (: : )

Common Name Leaf Blotch Miner Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/maf-border/Pest/Main/141467

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2.1. Details Specimen Contact: MAF Plant Health & Environment Laboratory - [email protected] Author: MAF Plant Health & Environment Laboratory Citation: MAF Plant Health & Environment Laboratory (2011) (Acrocercops sp.) Updated on 5/7/2014 Available online: PaDIL - http://www.padil.gov.au Image Use: Free for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY- NC 4.0)

2.2. URL Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/maf-border/Pest/Main/141467

2.3. Facets Commodity Overview: Horticulture Commodity Type: 1 Other Distribution: 0 Unknown Status: NZ - Exotic Groups: Host Family: 0 Unknown Pest Status: 0 Unknown

2.4. Other Names Eucosmophora Walsingham, 1897 Neurobathra Ely, 1918

2.5. Diagnostic Notes **Adult**

Hind tibiae with a couple of rows of stiff straight bristles above, about a quarter as long as the length of the tibiae, or somewhat less. Antennae fully as long as the fore wings, palpi typically with a slight tuft on second segment. In the fore wing with all veins present, or one dorsal (Cu) lost. Hind wing often a little more reduced than in Gracilaria, R1 regularly being lost. Resting position with the fore and middle legs displayed as usual, but sometimes with the head appressed to the object on which the moth is resting.

**Larva**

Caterpillar of various types, but in all cases it feeds in the cylindridal stage. The transformation to the cylindrical stage is sometimes gradual. The larvae usnally blotch miners, the cocoon, typically, being formed in the mine.

**References**

- Forbes, W.T.M. (1923). Lepidoptera of New York and neighboring states. _Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station Memoirs_, 68: 1-729.

2.6. References - Forbes, W.T.M. (1923). Lepidoptera of New York and neighboring states. _Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station Memoirs_, 68: 1-729.

2.7. Web Links Acrocercops : http://www.microleps.org/Guide/Gracillariidae/Gracillariinae/Acrocercops/index.html 3. Diagnostic Images

LEP30 LEP30 Dorsal - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF Headside - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF

LEP30 LEP30 Headtop - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF Lateral - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF

LEP30 LEP30 Ventral - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF Wing - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF 4. Other Images

LEP30 LEP30 Adult on Vigna marina stem: Caroline Dorsal - Larvae: Caroline Harding MAF Harding MAF

LEP30 LEP30 Headfront - Larvae: Caroline Harding MAF Headside - Larvae: Caroline Harding MAF

LEP30 LEP30 Lateral - Larvae: Caroline Harding MAF Pro-legs - Larvae: Caroline Harding MAF

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