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Neotelphusa castrigera
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Neotelphusa castrigera (Meyrick, 1913)
Telphusa castrigera Meyrick, 1913: 287. TL: South Africa: Mpumalanga, Barberton.
Neotelphusa castrigera (Meyrick, 1913)
— Janse 1958: 82.Material examined. 1♀, AM151, South Africa, Gauteng, Krokodilspruit, 25°35’12,5”S, 28°25’ 42,9”E, 22.ii.2018 em. (A. Sharp), Lannea discolor (gen. slide 201/19, O. Bidzilya) (HSS).
Biology. The larva was observed feeding on Lannea discolor (Anacardiaceae) in January. Adult emerged 22.ii (Staude et al. 2020: 58, as Pseudotelphusa sp. 3).
Distribution. South Africa (Meyrick 1913a: 287), Zimbabwe (Janse 1958: 82).
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 pages 507-508, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4952.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4690573
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AM , HSS
- Material sample ID
- AM151
- Event date
- 2018-02-22
- Verbatim event date
- 2018-02-22
- Scientific name authorship
- Meyrick
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gelechiidae
- Genus
- Neotelphusa
- Species
- castrigera
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Neotelphusa castrigera (Meyrick, 1913) sec. Bidzilya, 2021
References
- Janse, A. J. T. (1958) Gelechiidae. The Moths of South Africa, 6 (1), 1 - 144, pls. 1 - 32.
- 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.
- Meyrick, E. (1913 a) Descriptions of South African Microlepidoptera. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 3 (4), 267 - 336.