| multiple host shifts between distantly related plants, juglandaceae and ericaceae, in the leaf-mining moth acrocercops leucophaea complex (lepidoptera: gracillariidae). | insect herbivores such as gall formers and leaf miners are often highly specialized and adapted to their respective natal host plants. due to the specialization and adaptation, it is presumed that host shifts readily occur among closely related plant species. leaf-mining moths, the acrocercops leucophaea complex, consist of three species, a. leucophaea, a. defigurata, and a. transecta. larvae of all the species of the complex feed on juglandaceae plants, but a. leucophaea and a. transecta are al ... | 2006 | 16039148 |