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Stathmopoda auriferella

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22. Stathmopoda auriferella (Walker, 1864)

= Gelechia? auriferella Walker, 1864, List Spec. lepid. Insects Colln. Br. Mus. 30: 1022.

TL: Sierra Leone.

TD: Lectotype ♂, NHMUK (Kasy 1973).

= Stathmopoda divisa Walsingham, 1891, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1: 121.

TL: Bathurst, Gambia.

TD: Lectotype ♂, NHMUK (Kasy 1973).

= Stathmopoda ischnotis Meyrick, 1897, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales. 22 (2): 324.

TL: Australia, West Australia, Carnarvon.

TD: Lectotype ♂, NHMUK (Kasy 1973).

= Stathmopoda crocophanes Meyrick, 1897, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales. 22 (2): 324.

TL: Australia, Queensland (Duaringa, Brisbane, Rosewood), New South Wales (Newcastle, Sydney, Cooma), Tasmania (Georges Bay, Hobart), South Australia (Adelaide, Heyleton), West Australia (Geraldton, Perth).

TD: Lectotype ♀, NHMUK (Kasy 1973).

= Aeoloscelis theoris Meyrick, 1906, J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 17 (2): 410.

TL: Sri Lanka [Ceylon], Puttalam, Peradeniya & Maskeliya.

TD: Lectotype ♀, NHMUK (Kasy 1973).

= Stathmopoda tharsalea Meyrick, 1914, Ann. Transv. Mus. 4 (4): 199.

TL: Comoro Islands.

TD: Lectotype ♀, DNMNH (Kasy 1973).

= Stathmopoda adulatrix Meyrick, 1917, Exot. Microlepid., 2: 61.

TL: India, Almora, Kumaon (presently, in Uttarakhand).

TD: Syntype (abdomen missing), NHMUK (Kasy 1973).

= Stathmopoda cirrhaspis Meyrick, 1922, Exot. Microlepid. 2: 585.

TL: China, Shanghai.

TD: Lectotype ♂, MNHNP (Kasy 1973).

= Chrysoclista basiflavella Matsumura, 1931, 6000 Ill. Ins. Jap. Empire: 1087.

TL: Japan, Tokyo.

TD: Holotype ♀, HUS (Moriuti 1975).

Distribution: In India: Uttarakhand (Meyrick 1917), Bihar (Diakonoff 1967), Haryana, Chandigarh (Wadhawan & Walia 2006; Das et al. 2020), Himachal Pradesh, Punjab (Pathania et al. 2009), Karnataka (Rajeshwari et al. 2025); Elsewhere: Sierra Leone (Walker 1864); Gambia: Bathurst (Walsingham 1891); Australia: West Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, South Australia, West Australia (Meyrick 1897); Sri Lanka: Puttalam, Peradeniya, Maskeliya (Meyrick 1906; Koçak & Kemal 2012); Comoros (Meyrick 1914); China: Shanghai, Tien-Mu-Shan; Taiwan [Formosa] (Meyrick 1922; Kasy 1973); Japan: Tokyo (Moriuti 1975); Libya: Cyrenaica; Egypt, Nubia; Nigeria; Uganda; Madagascar; Seychelles; Israel: Tabgha, Tel Aviv; Iran: Bandar Abbas; Pakistan: Karachi; Indonesia: Java; Philippines: Luzon, La Union (Diakonoff 1967; Kasy 1973; Koçak & Kemal 2014); South Korea (Sinev & Park 1994; Park et al. 2018); North Korea; Vietnam (Sinev & Park 1994); United Arab Emirates (Koster 2010).

Illustrations: Male habitus (Walsingham 1891: pl.6, fig. 61; Koster 2010: fig. 5); wing venation (Kasy 1973: abb. 37; Rajeshwari et al. 2025: fig. 1), male genitalia (Kasy 1973: abb. 43; Park et al. 2018: fig. 2K); female genitalia (Diakonoff 1967: fig. 323; Kasy 1973: abb. 44; Park et al. 2018: fig. 3G; Rajeshwari et al. 2025: fig. 1); habitus (Kim et al. 2017, fig. 1a; Park et al. 2018: fig. 1K; Rajeshwari et al. 2025: fig. 1; NHM 2025b); labial palpi (Rajeshwari et al. 2025: fig. 1).

Host: Seeds, pods & leaves of Vachellia nilotica (= Acacia nilotica) (Fabaceae); decaying flowers of Osodendron altissimum (= Albizia altissima) (Fabaceae); pods of Ceratonia sp. (Fabaceae); decaying flowers of Cocos nucifera (Arecaceae); Coffea canephora, Coffea liberica (Rubiaceae); flowers of Helianthus annuus (Asteraceae); Kerria (Z) communis; inflorescence of Mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae); fruits of Nephelium cuspidatum (= Nephelium ophiodes) (Sapindaceae); twigs of Pinus roxburghii, Pinus longifolia (Pinaceae); rotten fruits of Punica granatum (Lythraceae); Sorghum bicolor (Poaceae); dead leaves of Tristania sp. (Myrtaceae); flowers of Citrus sp. (Rutaceae); fruits of Ziziphus sp. (Rhamnaceae); leaves of Tamarindus indica (Fabaceae); leaves of Solanum melongena (Solanaceae); dry cotton; cotton shoots affected by mealy bug (Meyrick 1917; Fletcher 1920; Kasy 1973; Srivastava 1985; Sinev & Park 1994; Pathania et al. 2009; Shamsudeen 2018; Robinson et al. 2023; Rajeshwari et al. 2025).

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 493, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5711.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/17884217

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Walker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Stathmopodidae
Genus
Stathmopoda
Species
auriferella
Taxon rank
species
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Stathmopoda auriferella (Walker, 1864) sec. Sahoo, 2025

References

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