''Acria sulawesica'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...

in the family

Depressariidae Depressariidae is a family of moths. It has formerly been treated as a subfamily of Gelechiidae, but is now recognised as a separate family, comprising about 2,300 species worldwide.Heikkilä, M. ''et al''. 2014: Morphology reinforces proposed mo ...

. It was described by Alexandr L. Lvovsky in 2015. It is found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The

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is about 14.5 mm.

Etymology

The species is named for Sulawesi, the type locality.Lvovsky, A. L. (2015)
"Two new species of the genus ''Acria'' (Lepidoptera: Peleopodidae) from South-East Asia"
''Zoosystematica rossica''. 24 (2): 279-281.

References

Moths described in 2015 Acria {{Depressariidae-stub