''Acrocercops antimima'' is a

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of the family

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. It is known from

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, Australia.Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
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e feed on ''

Lomatia myricoides ''Lomatia myricoides'' , commonly known as the river lomatia, is a shrub native to New South Wales and Victoria in southeastern Australia. Description ''Lomatia myricoides'' grows as a woody shrub or small tree, reaching high, or rarely up to ...

''. They

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the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a large, brown, blotch mine on the upper surface of the leaf.

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antimima ''Antimima'' is a succulent plant genus in the family Aizoaceae, indigenous to South Africa and Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares ...

Moths of Australia Moths described in 1940 {{Acrocercops-stub