Melanocercops elaphopa (Meyrick, 1914)

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SUBFAMILY	Acrocercopinae
GENUS	Melanocercops
SPECIES	elaphopa
AUTHOR	(Meyrick, 1914)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Acrocercops elaphopa, n. sp.
TYPE LOCALITY	[India, Karnataka], Karwar, Kanara.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Holotype ♂, BMNH.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Meyrick, E. 1914c. Descriptions of Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. XVIII. - Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 23(1):118–130.
PAGINATION	121

Species pictures

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
India	Karnataka	Meyrick, E. 1914c. Descriptions of Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. XVIII. - Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 23(1):118–130.	121
Nepal		Kumata, T., Kuroko, H. & Ermolaev, V. P. 1988b. Japanese species of the Acrocercops-group (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae). Part II. - Insecta Matsumurana, N. S. 40:1–133.	28

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Moraceae	Ficus asperrima	India	Meyrick, E. 1926c. Exotic Microlepidoptera. - Exotic Microlepidoptera (Marlborough) 3(10):289–320.	294
Moraceae	Ficus palmata	India	Kumata, T., Kuroko, H. & Ermolaev, V. P. 1988b. Japanese species of the Acrocercops-group (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae). Part II. - Insecta Matsumurana, N. S. 40:1–133.	28
Moraceae	Ficus religiosa		Robinson, G. S., Ackery, P. R., Kitching, I. J., Beccaloni, G. W. & Hernández, L. M. 2001. Hostplants of the moth and butterfly caterpillars of the Oriental Region. - — :1–744.	20
Moraceae	Ficus sp.	Nepal	Kumata, T., Kuroko, H. & Ermolaev, V. P. 1988a. Japanese species of the Acrocercops-group (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae). Part I. - Insecta Matsumurana, N. S. 38:1–111.	28