Tricerophora commaculata
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Tricerophora commaculata (Meyrick, 1921)
Telphusa commaculata Meyrick, 1921: 69. TL: Mozambique, Magude.
Tricerophora commaculata (Meyrick, 1921) — Janse 1958: 65.
Material examined. 1♀, LepsocAfrica CRG, Staude et al. (2016), M30, Gelechioidea, reared on Lannea sweinfurthii, Anacardiaceae, Caskets farm, South Africa, Limpopo, Hoedspruit, 24˚20’36’’S, 31˚09’07’’E, 12.xii.2012 eclosed (A. & I. Sharp) (gen. slide 21/19, O. Bidzilya); 1♀, LepsocAfrica CRG, Staude et al. (2016), M30, Gelechioidea, reared on Lannea sweinfurthii, Anacardiaceae, Tshukudu Game Reserve, South Africa, Limpopo, Hoedspruit, 24˚17’09’’S, 30˚55’41’’E, 11.xii.2013 eclosed (A. & I. Sharp) (gen. slide 10/19, O. Bidzilya); 1♂, same data M1918, but 26.xi.2017 eclosed (A. & I. Sharp) (all HSS).
Biology. Larvae were observed feeding on Lannea sweinfurthii (Anacardiaceae) in November. Adults emerged 16.xi, 11 and12.xii (Staude et al. 2016: 73, 74; Staude et al. 2020: 59).
Distribution. South Africa (Janse 1958: 66), Mozambique (Meyrick 1921: 69), Zimbabwe (Bidzilya & Mey 2018: 84).
Remarks. The male associated with T. commaculata (Janse 1958, pl. 9, pl 54, fig. c; Bidzilya & Mey 2018, fig. 21) should be referred to T. pundamilia. The male of T. commaculata remains unknown.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Meyrick
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gelechiidae
- Genus
- Tricerophora
- Species
- commaculata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tricerophora commaculata (Meyrick, 1921) sec. Bidzilya, 2021
References
- Meyrick, E. (1921) Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 8 (2), 4 - 148.
- Janse, A. J. T. (1958) Gelechiidae. The Moths of South Africa, 6 (1), 1 - 144, pls. 1 - 32.
- 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.
- Staude, H. S., Maclean, M., Mecenero, S., Pretorius, R. J., Oberprieler, R. G., Van Noort, S., Sharp, A., Sharp, I., Balona, J., Bradley, S., Brink, M., Morton, A. S., Botha, M. J., Collins, S. C., Grobler, Q., Edge, D. A., Williams, M. C. & Sihvonen, P. (2020) An overview of Lepidoptera-host-parasitoid associations for southern Africa, including an illustrated report on 2 370 African Lepidoptera-host and 119 parasitoid-Lepidoptera associations. Metamorphosis, 31 (3), 1 - 380.
- Bidzilya, O. & Mey, W. (2018) Review of the genus Tricerophora Janse, 1958 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) with description of six new species. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, 65 (1), 81 - 89. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / dez. 65.25747