Acrocercops tripolis is a moth

Moth

A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...

 of the Gracillariidae

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, Cameraria ohridella....

 family. It is known from Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

(Java).

Original Description

Wingspan 7 mm. Head white, collar pale ochreous-yellowish. Palpi somewhat roughened anteriorly, white, with rings of dark fuscous speckling at apex of second joint and middle of terminal. Basal joint of antennae with anterior tuft of scales. Thorax pale ochreous-yellowish, posterior third white. Abdomen whitish. Forewings very narrow, moderately pointed, acute; white, with some minute scattered fuscous specks; a costal dot of black irroration almost at base; moderate slightly oblique light ochreous-yellowish fasciae edged with some fuscous specks near base, before middle, and at 2 /3 , third narrower; small blackish opposite spots on margins at 5/6, and a third in disc just before these; apex slightly yellowish-tinged: cilia grey-whitish, round apex finely speckled with grey. Hindwings light grey; cilia whitish-grey. Java, Pekalongan (van Deventer); one specimen.