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Perittia secutrix
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Description
Perittia secutrix (Meyrick, 1914)
Mendesia secutrix Meyrick, 1914b: 196. Type locality: South Africa, Pretoria (Meyrick 1914b: 196). Three syntypes, in TMSA.
Perittia secutrix: De Prins & De Prins (2017).
Distribution: Afrotropical. South Africa.
Larval host plant(s): unknown.
Figs.: No illustration available.
Remarks: Parenti (1988) transferred M. secutrix from Elachistidae to Scythrididae. Vári et al. (2002: 40) listed M. secutrix in Elachistidae. Sruoga & De Prins (2009: 28) followed Parenti (1988) and removed the taxon from Elachistidae. De Prins & De Prins (2017) transferred it to Perittia.
Notes
Published as part of Kaila, Lauri, 2019, An annotated catalogue of Elachistinae of the World (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae), pp. 1-231 in Zootaxa 4632 (1) on page 149, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4632.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3335414
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Elachistidae
- Genus
- Perittia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Meyrick
- Species
- secutrix
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Perittia secutrix (Meyrick, 1914) sec. Kaila, 2019
References
- Meyrick, E. (1914 b) Descriptions of South-African Micro-Lepidoptera. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 4, 187 - 205. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 22847
- De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017) Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication. Available from: http: // www. afromoths. net (accessed 4 December 2017)
- Parenti, U. (1988) About some African and Asiatic species of the family Elachistidae (Lepidoptera) described by E. Meyrick. Stapfia, 16, 185 - 198.
- Vari, L., Kroon, D. M. & Kruger, M. (2002) Classification and checklist of the species of Lepidoptera recorded in Southern Africa. Simple Solutions, Chastwood, xxi + 385 pp.
- Sruoga, V. & De Prins, J. (2009) The Elachistinae (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae) of Kenya with descriptions of eight new species. Zootaxa, 2172, 1 - 31.