Acrocercops panacicorticis[2] or Eumetriochroa panacicorticis[3] is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is endemic to New Zealand.[2][3] In 2019 Robert Hoare and colleagues proposed that this species be provisionally assigned to the genus Eumetriochroa.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gracillariidae |
| Genus: | Acrocercops |
| Species: | A. panacicorticis
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| Acrocercops panacicorticis (Watt, 1920)
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The larvae feed on Pseudopanax arboreus.[4] They mine the stem of their host plant. The mine is a simple gallery throughout, gradually increasing in width. The general direction is along the young stem in the internodes in its long axis. On reaching a node where the large expanded base of the leaf-stalk closely embraces the greater part of the stem the mine follows the obstruction on a varying distance, eventually turning down into the next internode or retracing its way back in its old internode, turning again in a similar manner on reaching the other extremity. In this way the internodes become more or less occupied by long galleries, while at the nodes the mine may enlarge and envelop the stem. Blind branches are rarely found. The mine may at times become somewhat tortuous, and in places more or less expanded owing to several parts intercommunicating. As a general rule but one internode will be occupied by any one mine, though sometimes a mine may extend into two. Where two mines are occupying the rather small area offered by a single internode, their galleries may intermingle indiscriminately without any attempt at mutual avoidance. The colour of the mine is white at first, later white or a very pale brown. The frass is scanty, and in the earlier portions of the mine occupies a narrow central line in the gallery.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c Watt, M. N. (1920). "The leaf-mining insects of New Zealand". Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 52: 439–466. Also available at New Zealand National Library
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ a b Acrocercops panacicorticis (Watt, 1920) in New Zealand Organisms Register (NZOR)
- ^ a b De Prins, J. & De Prins, W., eds. (2024). "Eumetriochroa panacicorticis (Watt, 1920)". Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae. Belspo, Brussels, Belgium: Belgian Biodiversity Platform. doi:10.48580/d4sb-397. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
- ^ a b Robert J. B. Hoare; Brian H Patrick; Thomas R. Buckley (22 July 2019). "A new leaf-mining moth from New Zealand, Sabulopteryx botanica sp. nov. (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Gracillariinae), feeding on the rare endemic shrub Teucrium parvifolium (Lamiaceae), with a revised checklist of New Zealand Gracillariidae". ZooKeys. 865: 39–65. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.865.34265. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 6663935. PMID 31379443. Wikidata Q70104394.
