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Lecithocera metacausta Meyrick 1910

  • 1. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, India. & dapurva 69 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2859 - 5010
  • 2. Zoological Survey of India, Saproon, Solan- 173211, Himachal Pradesh, India. & pathaniapc @ yahoo. co. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9642 - 7348
  • 3. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, India. & nsgill 007 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6657 - 7983

Description

73. Lecithocera metacausta Meyrick, 1910b: 446

Type locality: India, Assam, Khasi Hills

= Lecithocera meyricki Ghesquière, 1940: 81

Type locality: Belg. Congo [DR Congo]

= Lecithocera meyricki Gozmány, 1978: 100 (preoccupied, junior homonym?)

Type locality: China

Distribution: Indian records: Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya. Global records: China (Taiwan), Korea, Thailand.

Notes

Published as part of Das, Apurva, Pathania, Prakash C. & Singh, Navneet, 2022, A catalogue of Indian Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea), pp. 56-78 in Zootaxa 5165 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/6825526

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Meyrick
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Lecithoceridae
Genus
Lecithocera
Species
metacausta
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Lecithocera metacausta Meyrick, 1910 sec. Das, Pathania & Singh, 2022

References

  • Meyrick, E. (1910 b) Descriptions of Indian Microlepidoptera. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 20, 435 - 462.
  • Ghesquiere, J. (1940) Lepidopteres Microlepidopteres (premiere partie). In: Annales du Musee du Congo belge, Zoologie [3, Arthropodes] Section 2. Catalogues raisonnes Serie, 3 (2) & 7 (1), pp. 1 - 120.
  • Gozmany, L. A. (1978) Lecithoceridae. In: Amsel, H. G., Gregor, F. & Reisser, H. (Eds.), Microlepidoptera Palaearctica. Vol. 5. Georg Fromme and Co., Wien, pp. 1 - 306.