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Stathmopoda placida Meyrick 1908

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41. Stathmopoda placida Meyrick, 1908

Stathmopoda placida Meyrick, 1908, Rec. Ind. Mus. 2: 396.

TL: Myanmar, Yangon [Rangoon].

TD: Holotype, IMCK?;

Paratype (abdomen lost), NHMUK (Kasy 1973).

= Stathmopoda isoleuca Meyrick, 1913, Exot. Microlepid. 1: 93.

TL: India, Bombay, Konkan (presently, Maharashtra); Sri Lanka [Ceylon], Puttalam.

TD: Lectotype ♀, NHMUK (Kasy 1973).

Distribution: In India: Maharashtra, Karnataka; Elsewhere: Myanmar: Yangon; Thailand; Sri Lanka: Puttalam; Philippines: Luzon, Manila (Meyrick 1908; Meyrick 1913; Diakonoff 1967; Kasy 1973); Indonesia: Java (Meyrick 1933); China: Hainan (Wang et al. 2021b).

Illustrations: female genitalia (lectotype of Stathmopoda isoleuca) (Kasy 1973: abb. 52); male genitalia (Diakonoff 1967: 217, fig. 319, 320; Wang et al. 2021b: fig. 46); female genitalia (Wang et al. 2021b: fig. 66); adult (Diakonoff 1967: 444, fig. 724; Wang et al. 2021b: fig. 21); habitus (syntype) (NHM 2025c); habitus (synonym taxa for Stathmopoda isoleuca) (NHM 2025d).

Host: Kerria lacca (Meyrick 1933; 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 497, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5711.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/17884217

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Biodiversity

Collection code
IMCK , NHMUK
Scientific name authorship
Meyrick
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Stathmopodidae
Genus
Stathmopoda
Species
placida
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Stathmopoda placida Meyrick, 1908 sec. Sahoo, 2025

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