Insect Pests of Fruit, Plantation, Medicinal & Aromatic Crops (2+1)

1. Leaf miner- Acrocercops syngramma M. (Gracillaridae: Lepidoptera)

Damage

• The larva mines into the tender leaves causing whitish blotches.
Bionomics

• The adult is silvery greyish moth with fringes of hairs on the wing margins.
  
• The larva is reddish brown in colour.