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Microsarotis lygistis

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Description

Microsarotis lygistis (DIAKONOff, 1977)

Wingspan: 10 mm; adult (plate 15: fig. 76); male genitalia (plate 15: fig. 78); female genitalia (plate 15: fig. 79); pupa (plate 15: fig. 77).

Six specimens ex-larvae: 26-ii-2015, 15-iii-2015, 19-iii-2015, 21-iii-2015 (female, slide RE-1673), 15-iv-2015 (male, slide RE-1779), 28-iv-2015.

Locality: Réunion, La Possession, Ravine à Malheur, alt. 100 m.

Five specimens were deposited with Naturalis, Netherlands in July 2016.

Biology: Hostplant: Bauhina monandra KURZ (Fabaceae). This species was known by a female only, raised from fruits of Bauhinia spec. by J. ETIENNE in 1976.

I bred this species on Bauhina monandra KURZ (Fabaceae), larvae fed on boths: leafs (five specimens) and fruits (one specimen, fig. 77). Notable that all Bauhina species found in La Réunion are introduced. This is certainly not an endemic species of Lepidoptera.

Distribution: La Réunion.

Notes

Published as part of Bippus, Maik, 2016, New or poorly known Microlepidoptera from the Mascarenes (Lepidoptera: Autostichidae, Bedellidae, Batrachedridae, Carposinidae, Epermeniidae, Gelechiidae, Tineidae, Tortricidae), pp. 347-370 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 66 (2) on page 369, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.66.2.347-370.1910, http://zenodo.org/record/5373173

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Diakonoff
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Tortricidae
Genus
Microsarotis
Species
lygistis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Microsarotis lygistis (Diakonoff, 1977) sec. Bippus, 2016

References

  • DIAKONOff, A. 1977: Tortricidae and Choreutidae from Reunion (Lepidoptera). - Annales de la Societe entomologique de France (N. S.) 13 (1): 101 - 116.