''Acrocercops nitidula'' 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 ...

of the family

Gracillariidae Gracillariidae is an important family of insects in the order Lepidoptera and the principal family of leaf miners that includes several economic, horticultural or recently invasive pest species such as the horse-chestnut leaf miner, ''Camerar ...

, known from

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the four ...

India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...

. It was described by

Henry Tibbats Stainton Henry Tibbats Stainton (13 August 1822 – 2 December 1892) was an English entomologist. He served as an editor for two popular entomology periodicals of his period, ''The Entomologist's Annual'' and ''The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer''. ...

in 1919.Stainton, H. T. 1862. Descriptions of nine exotic species of the genus Gracilaria ic - Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (series 3) 1(3):291–300.

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nitidula ''Nitidula'' is a genus of sap-feeding beetles in the family Nitidulidae. There are more than 20 described species in ''Nitidula''. Some species breed in carrion while others are associated with later stages of decay in mammalian corpses and can ...

Moths of Asia Moths described in 1862 {{Acrocercops-stub