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Armatophallus exoenota

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).

Notes

Published as part of Bidzilya, Oleksiy, 2021, New host-plants records of Afrotropical Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera), with description of three new species, pp. 495-522 in Zootaxa 4952 (3) on page 517, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4952.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4690573

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Additional details

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.