''Monocercops'' is a genus of

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s in 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 ...

Etymology

Monocercops is derived from the Greek ''monos'' (meaning one, single), ''cercos'' (tail) and ''ops'' (eye).Two new genera related to Acrocercops (Gracillariidae, Lepidoptera), with five new species from the Oriental region
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Species

*'' Monocercops actinosema'' (Turner, 1923) *'' Monocercops nepalensis'' Kumata, 1989

*'' Monocercops resplendens'' (Stainton, 1862) *'' Monocercops thoi'' Kumata, 1989 *'' Monocercops triangulata'' Kumata, 1989

References

External links

Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)
Acrocercopinae Gracillarioidea genera {{Acrocercopinae-stub