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Tortilia hemitorna
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52. Tortilia hemitorna (Meyrick, 1913)
Stathmopoda hemitorna Meyrick, 1913, Exot. Microlepid. 1: 97.
TL: India, Madras, Ooty [Ootacamund] (presently, in Tamil Nadu), Siruguppa (presently, in Karnataka).
TD: Holotype ♀, NHMUK (Kasy 1973).
Distribution: India: Tamil Nadu, Karnataka (Meyrick 1913; Fletcher 1920).
Illustrations: Male genitalia; female genitalia (Kasy 1973: abb. 8, 11).
Host: Tamarindus indica (Fabaceae) (Fletcher 1920; Robinson et al. 2023).
Notes
Published as part of Sahoo, Kishore Chandra, 2025, A catalogue of Indian Stathmopodidae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea), pp. 482-504 in Zootaxa 5711 (4) on page 500, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5711.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/17884217
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- Meyrick
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- Animalia
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- Arthropoda
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- Lepidoptera
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- Stathmopodidae
- Genus
- Tortilia
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- hemitorna
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- species
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- Tortilia hemitorna (Meyrick, 1913) sec. Sahoo, 2025
References
- Kasy, F. (1973) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Familie Stathmopodidae Meyrick, 1913 (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 116 (13), 227-299.
- Fletcher, T. B. (1920) Life histories of Indian Insects. Microlepidoptera. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India, Entomological Series, 6, 1-217. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11098
- Robinson, G. S., Ackery, P. R., Kitching, I. J., Beccaloni, G. W. & Hernandez, L. M. (2023) HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, Lodnon, Data Set. https://doi.org/10.5519/havt50xw