Eridachtha phaeocrossis Meyrick 1937
Authors/Creators
- 1. 108 - 508, Semteo Village, Irwon-ro 120, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06356, Korea
- 2. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, ISYEB, Entomologie (C. P. 50), 45, rue Buffon, F- 75005 Paris, France
- 3. Department of Plant Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, CB 28644, Korea
Description
Eridachtha phaeocrossis Meyrick, 1937
Eridachtha phaeocrossis Meyrick, 1937: 96. TL: Transvaal, South Africa. [TMSA].
Atrichozancla phaeocrossis; Janse 1954: 369; Park et al. 2021: 356.
Material examined. South Africa: 1♂ (holotype, type no. 571), Mpumalanga, Pilgrims Rest, Skea, xii [19]20, Coll. Janse, in TMSA. Paratypes 3♂: Type nos. 572 and 573, gen. slide no. 3737, in TMSA, NHMUK.
Diagnosis. Wingspan 13.0–14.0 mm. The head, antenna, labial palpus are straw yellow but the forewing ground colour is buffy brown. This species is characterized by the forewing vein R 3, which is separated from R 4+5 (R 4 stalked with R 5 from beyond 2/3), the roughly scaled 2 nd segment of the labial palpus (with tufts above and below), and the 3 rd segment which is longer than the 2 nd segment, needle-like, nearly straight.
Male genitalia. See Janse (1954: Pl. 152, fig. 5; Pl. 157, fig. 6). Janse (1954) noted that the male genitalia resemble those of E. cosymbota Meyrick but differ from the latter by the aedeagus which possesses a pair of small, triangular processes on the upper side near the apex.
Female unknown.
Distribution. South Africa (Mpumalanga).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- TMSA , TMSA, NHMUK
- Scientific name authorship
- Meyrick
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lecithoceridae
- Genus
- Eridachtha
- Species
- phaeocrossis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eridachtha phaeocrossis Meyrick, 1937 sec. Park, Minet, Koo & Yu, 2024
References
- Meyrick, E. (1937) n. k. In: Exotic Microlepidoptera. 5 (3). Meyrick, Marlborough, Wiltshire, pp. 65 - 96.
- Janse, A. J. T. (1954) Gelechiadae [Part]. In: Janse, A. J. T. (Ed.), The moths of South Africa. Vol. 5. Part 4. Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, pp. 301 - 464, pls. 137 - 202.
- 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 (3), 355 - 370. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. japb. 2021.06.001