Armatophallus exoenota
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Description
Armatophallus exoenota (Meyrick, 1918)
Gelechia exoenota Meyrick, 1918: 52. TL: South Africa: Gauteng, Pretoria.
Gelechia xylophaea Meyrick, 1921: 71. TL: Zimbabwe, Umvuma. Synonymized by Bidzilya (2015: 416).
Schizovalva exoenota (Meyrick, 1918) — Bidzilya 2007: 101, figs. 37, 38; pl. 7, fig. 4.
Armatophallus exoenota (Meyrick, 1918) —Bidzilya 2015: 416.
Material examined. 1♂, Staude et al. (2016), 12HSS153, Gelechiidae, reared on Senegalia caffra, Fabaceae, Steenkoppies farm, South Africa, Gauteng, Magaliesburg, 26˚01’25’’S, 27˚32’36’’E, 1580 m, Grassland/wooded kloof, 06.ii.2013 eclosed (H. Staude) (HSS).
Biology. Larva was observed feeding on Senegalia caffra (Fabaceae) in January. Adult emerged 6.ii (Staude et. al. 2016: 67, 68).
Distribution. South Africa (Meyrick 1918: 52), Zimbabwe (Meyrick 1921: 71), Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Gambia, Cameroon (Bidzilya 2007: 99; Bidzilya 2015: 416).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Gelechiidae
- Genus
- Armatophallus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Meyrick
- Species
- exoenota
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Armatophallus exoenota (Meyrick, 1918) sec. Bidzilya, 2021
References
- Meyrick, E. (1918) Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 6 (2), 7 - 59.
- Meyrick, E. (1921) Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 8 (2), 4 - 148.
- Bidzilya, O. V. (2007) Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea). In: Mey, W. (Ed.), The Lepidoptera of the Brandberg Massif in Namibia. Part 2. Esperiana Memoir, 4, 91 - 118. pls. 5 - 8.
- Staude, H. S., Mecenero, S., Oberprieler, R., Sharp, A., Sharp, I., Williams, M. C. & Maclean, M. (2016) Supplementary material to: An illustrated report on the larvae and adults of 962 African Lepidoptera species. Results of the Caterpillar Rearing Group: a novel, collaborative method of rearing and recording lepidopteran life-histories. Metamorphosis, 27, Supplement, S 1 - S 330.