Hypatima tetraptila
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Hypatima tetraptila (Meyrick, 1909)
Figs 15, 16
Semodictis tetraptila Meyrick, 1909a: 16, pl. 5, f. 7. TL: South Africa: Gauteng, Kranspoort.
Hypatima tetraptila (Meyrick, 1909) — Janse 1949: 50.
Material examined. 1♂, 17HSS227, pup. 21.i.2018, em. 31.i.2018 (gen. slide 219/19, O. Bidzilya); 1♂, LepsocAfrica CRG, Staude et al. (2016), SM 393b, Gelechiidae reared on Searsia crenata, Anacardiaceae, Robberg Nature Reserve, South Africa, Western Cape, Plettenberg Bay 34˚06’10’’S, 23˚23’32’’E, 26.v.2014 eclosed (S. Mecenero) (gen. slide 122/19, O. Bidzilya) (HSS); 1♂, Beacon Bay, East London, Eastern Cape, from larva ex Allophylus, em. 7.x.1982 (N.L. Duke) (TMSA).
Biology. The larvae were observed feeding on Searsia crenata (Anacardiaceae) in January and May. Adults emerged 31.i and 26.v. One male (Fig. 15) was bred from Allophylus sp. (Sapindaceae) in early October (Staude et al. 2020: 297 as unidentified species 17HSS227).
Distribution. South Africa (Meyrick 1916; Janse 1949: 42).
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Meyrick
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gelechiidae
- Genus
- Hypatima
- Species
- tetraptila
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hypatima tetraptila (Meyrick, 1909) sec. Bidzilya, 2021
References
- Meyrick, E. (1909 a) Descriptions of Transvaal Microlepidoptera. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 2 (1), 1 - 28, 1 - 8 pls.
- Janse, A. J. T. (1949) Gelechiidae. The Moths of South Africa, 5 (1), 1 - 60, pls. 1 - 32.
- Staude, H. S., Mecenero, S., Oberprieler, R., Sharp, A., Sharp, I., Williams, M. C. & Maclean, M. (2016) Supplementary material to: An illustrated report on the larvae and adults of 962 African Lepidoptera species. Results of the Caterpillar Rearing Group: a novel, collaborative method of rearing and recording lepidopteran life-histories. Metamorphosis, 27, Supplement, S 1 - S 330.
- Staude, H. S., Maclean, M., Mecenero, S., Pretorius, R. J., Oberprieler, R. G., Van Noort, S., Sharp, A., Sharp, I., Balona, J., Bradley, S., Brink, M., Morton, A. S., Botha, M. J., Collins, S. C., Grobler, Q., Edge, D. A., Williams, M. C. & Sihvonen, P. (2020) An overview of Lepidoptera-host-parasitoid associations for southern Africa, including an illustrated report on 2 370 African Lepidoptera-host and 119 parasitoid-Lepidoptera associations. Metamorphosis, 31 (3), 1 - 380.
- Meyrick, E. (1916) Exotic Microlepidoptera, 1 (16 - 20), 481 - 640.