''Acrobasis juglanivorella'' is a species of

snout moth The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family (biology), family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian Taxonomic rank, superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older) classifications, the grass moths (Cramb ...

in the genus ''

Acrobasis ''Acrobasis'' is a genus of moths of the family Pyralidae.

''. It was described by Herbert H. Neunzig in 1986, and is known from

Wisconsin Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michig ...

, United States. The larvae feed on ''

Juglans nigra ''Juglans nigra'', the eastern American black walnut, is a species of deciduous tree in the walnut family, Juglandaceae, native to central and eastern North America, growing mostly in riparian zones. Black walnut is susceptible to thousand can ...

''. They mine the buds of their host plant shortly after bud break in spring. They cause further damage by mining out new shoots.

References

Moths described in 1986 Acrobasis Moths of North America {{Acrobasis-stub