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Lecithocera lucernata Meyrick 1913
- 1. ktpark 02 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9933 - 4497
- 2. Department of Plant Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, CB 28644, Korea & taran 9539 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2639 - 6456
- 3. Department of Plant Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, CB 28644, Korea & sophomore 2017 @ naver. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0000 - 2944 - 4949
- 4. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science, 1000 Brussels, Belgium & Australian National Insect Collection, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia
- 5. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science, 1000 Brussels, Belgium & willy. deprins @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4430 - 1425
Description
7. Lecithocera lucernata Meyrick, 1913
Lecithocera lucernata Meyrick, 1913: 294; Ghesquière 1940: 58; Janse 1954: 343 (Leviptera Janse, 1954); Park & De Prins 2019b: 73; Park et al. 2021: 359.
Type locality: South Africa, Pretoria; Type depository: holotype male in TMSA.
Distribution. DR Congo (Ghesquière 1940), Namibia (Park & De Prins 2019b), South Africa (Meyrick 1913).
Remarks. This species was reported from DR Congo by Ghesquière (1940) based on material collected from Elisabethville (leg. Seydel). The male genitalia were illustrated by Janse (1954, Pl. 142, Fig. 1; Pl. 152, Fig. 3; Pl. 174, Fig. 6), and the female genitalia by Park & De Prins (2019b, Fig. 6B).
Notes
Published as part of Park, Kyu-Tek, Koo, Jun-Mo, Jeong, Su-Yeon, Prins, Jurate De & Prins, Willy De, 2023, Review of the genus Lecithocera Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae) in DR Congo, with description of four new species, pp. 355-368 in Zootaxa 5339 (4) on page 364, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5339.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8309122
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lecithoceridae
- Genus
- Lecithocera
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Meyrick
- Species
- lucernata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lecithocera lucernata Meyrick, 1913 sec. Park, Koo, Jeong, Prins & Prins, 2023
References
- Meyrick, E. (1913) Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera. IV. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 3, 267 - 336. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9702
- Ghesquiere, J. (1940) Lepidopteres, Microlepidopteres. (Premiere partie). Annales du Musee du Congo belge, Zoologie, 3 (Arthropodes), Section 2, Catalogue Raisonnes, 1 - 120, pls. i - v.
- Janse, A. J. T. (1954) Gelechiadae. In: Janse, A. J. T. (Ed.), The moths of South Africa. Vol. 5 (4). Caxton Limited, Pretoria, pp. 301 - 464, pls. 137 - 202.
- Park, K. - T. & De Prins, W. (2019 b) A review of the Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) of southern Africa, based on type specimens deposited in the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (TMSA), with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa, 4623 (1), 61 - 89. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4623.1.5
- Park, K. - T., De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2021) A checklist of Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) of the Afrotropical Region. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 14, 355 - 370. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. japb. 2021.06.001