Cuphodes melanostola
Authors/Creators
- 1. Zoology Department, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Lungadige Porta Vittoria 9, 37129 Verona, Italy;
- 2. IRBI, UMR 7261, CNRS-University of Tours, Tours, France
Description
14. Cuphodes melanostola (Meyrick, 1918)
(Figs 10, 65)
Phrixosceles melanostola Meyrick 1918a, 6: 39.
Cuphodes melanostola Vári, 1961:.190.
Material. 1♂, South Africa, Limpopo, Hoedspruit, Casketts farm mn 04/i/2015, pup 05/i/2015, em 12/i/2015, Euclea divinorum Hiern (Ebenaceae), A. & I. Sharp leg., (rearing: M988), CLV7583.
Additional material. 29 Malaise trapped adults (26 from South Africa, two from Kenya and one from Tanzania) as follows: South Africa: two adults, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park, Crocodile Bridge, Lufund Chantal Muthelu leg., 22/05/2018 and 02/02/2019, BIOUG43487-B03 and BIOUG48029-A01; one adult, Gauteng, Hekpoort, Mogale’s Gate Biodiversity Centre, H. S. Staude leg., 21/12/2012, BIOUG06207-G05; two adults, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park, Lower Sabie, Constance Mathoho leg., 17/viii/2018 and 12/xii/2018, BIOUG45774-C01 and BIOUG47821-B06; one adult, Gauteng, Hekpoort, Magaliesburg, Golden valley, P. Hebert & J. deWaard leg., 18/ ii/2012, BIOUG02090-G09; one adult, Limpopo, Mahlangeni, Packs Mathebula leg., 06/xi/2018, BIOUG45439- A01; three adults, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park, Malelane, Albert Smith leg., 08/xii/2018 and 21/vii/2018, BIOUG48764-C11, BIOUG48764-F09, BIOUG48561-E06; two adults, Free State National Botanical Gardens, Lufuno Nenungwi leg., 08/ii /022, BIOUG81815-G03, BIOUG86457-D11; four adults, Karoo Desert National Botanical Gardens, Eric Malgas leg., 08/ii/2022, 05/iv/2022, 03/v/2022, BIOUG84182-G07, BIOUG84887-D01, BIOUG84885-A01, BIOUG84198-B09; two adults, KwaZulu-Natal National Botanical Gardens, Mpho Mathalauga leg., 08/ii/2022, BIOUG87208-H05, BIOUG87208-H11; two adults, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park, Skukuza camp, Lindokuhle Gumede & Meurel Baloyi leg., 03/vii/2018 and 30/viii/2018, BIOUG42978-G11; BIOUG46024- H10; one adult, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park, Stolznek, Marius Snyders leg., 25/xi/2018, BIOUG46728- E04; three adults, Limpopo, Kruger National Park, Vlakteplaas, Tomas Ramabulana leg., 05/i/2019, 02/ii/2019, BIOUG47945-A02, BIOUG47942-F07, BIOUG48137-G01; two adults, Limpopo, Kruger National Park, Nxanatseni North woodlands, Philile Dlamini leg., 17/v/2018, 23/viii/2018, BIOUG43375-E03 and BIOUG46061-E06. Kenya: two adults, Laikipia, Mpala Research Centre, Margaret Kinnaird leg., 03/viii/2014, 23/xi/2014, BIOUG23695-B10; BIOUG24713-B12. Tanzania: one adult, Serengeti National Park, Hembe Campsite, Joseph Hubert Masoy leg., 15/xi/2019, BIOUG93060-G01.
Biology. Previously unknown host plant: Euclea divinorum Hiern (Ebenaceae) (Fig. 65).
Distribution. In South Africa, it was known before to occur in KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape and Western Cape; it was also known from Namibia. Here we record it for the first time from Limpopo, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Free State, Kenya and Tanzania.
DNA barcodes. 47 barcodes forming a single BIN BOLD:ABW0962 (Table S1).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BIOUG , CLV
- Material sample ID
- BIOUG02090-G09 , BIOUG06207-G05 , BIOUG24713-B12 , BIOUG42978-G11 , BIOUG43375-E03, BIOUG46061-E06, BIOUG23695-B10 , BIOUG43487-B03, BIOUG48029-A01 , BIOUG45439- A01 , BIOUG45774-C01, BIOUG47821-B06 , BIOUG46024- H10 , BIOUG46728- E04 , BIOUG47945-A02, BIOUG47942-F07, BIOUG48137-G01 , BIOUG48764-C11, BIOUG48764-F09, BIOUG48561-E06 , BIOUG81815-G03, BIOUG86457-D11 , BIOUG84182-G07, BIOUG84887-D01, BIOUG84885-A01, BIOUG84198-B09 , BIOUG87208-H05, BIOUG87208-H11 , BIOUG93060-G01 , CLV7583
- Event date
- 2012-02-18 , 2012-12-21 , 2014-08-03 , 2015-01-04 , 2018-05-22 , 2018-07-03 , 2018-07-21 , 2018-08-17 , 2018-11-06 , 2018-11-25 , 2019-01-05 , 2019-11-15 , 2022-02-08
- Verbatim event date
- 2012-02-18 , 2012-12-21 , 2014-08-03/2018-08-23 , 2015-01-04/12 , 2018-05-22/2019-02-02 , 2018-07-03/08-30 , 2018-07-21/12-08 , 2018-08-17/12-12 , 2018-11-06 , 2018-11-25 , 2019-01-05/02-02 , 2019-11-15 , 2022-02-08 , 2022-02-08/05-03
- Scientific name authorship
- Meyrick
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gracillariidae
- Genus
- Cuphodes
- Species
- melanostola
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cuphodes melanostola (Meyrick, 1918) sec. Triberti, Staude, Sharp & Lopez-Vaamonde, 2024
References
- Meyrick, E. (1918 a) Descriptions of South African Micro - Lepidoptera. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 6, 7 - 59.
- Vari, L. (1961) South African Lepidoptera. Vol. I. Lithocolletidae. Transvaal Museum Memoir, 1961, 1 - 238.