GRACILLARIIDAE: Acrocercopinae ²

Acrocercops laciniella (Meyrick, 1880). Adventive. Locally Common.

Habitat, seasonality and behaviour ³

Adults can be found from January through to March. They fly at night and are attracted to artificial light.

Life history ³

The larvae of all Gracillariidae start as leaf miners. Larval hostplant is Eucalyptus, Angophora hispida. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a large, irregular blotch in juvenile leaves.

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1. (c) Stephen Thorpe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Stephen Thorpe
2. Adapted by Tony Steer from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrocercops_laciniella
3. (c) Tony Steer, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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