Cryptolectica euryphanta
Authors/Creators
- 1. Institute of Biosciences, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio Ave. 7, LT- 10257 Vilnius, Lithuania virginijus. sruoga @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5687 - 8299
- 2. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, 1000 Brussels, Belgium & Australian National Insect Collection, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia jurate. deprins @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7637 - 5755
Description
Cryptolectica euryphanta (Meyrick, 1911)
(Figs 7A–F; 8A–C)
Acrocercops euryphanta; Meyrick 1911: 291; Vári 1961: 159–160; pl. 20, fig. 4; pl. 43, fig. 4; pl. 106, fig. 3.
Cryptolectica euryphanta; Triberti 2004: 80.
Material examined. 1♁, 1♀, Cameroon, North Province, Faro River Camp, 275 m, 08°23’N 012°49’E, 09.v.2005, leg. J. & W. De Prins. Gen. preps. VS548, VS549; 1♁, 2♀, same locality, 01.v.2005, leg. J. & W. De Prins; 4♀, same locality, 09.v.2005, leg. J. & W. De Prins; 1♁, Cameroon, North Province, Faro River Camp, 275 m, 08°22’N 012°51’E, 06.v.2005, leg. J. & W. De Prins, in coll. RBINS.
Diagnosis. Among the species of Cryptolectica, C. euryphanta well diagnosed in wing pattern by two wide oblique white fasciae on fuscous background. The male genitalia are highly distinctive with almost parallel sided valva with bluntly rounded cucullus, a pair tufts of long setae on tegumen and two teeth in apical part of aedeagus. In female genitalia, highly spined central part of ductus bursae and two hook-shaped signa separates this species well from other known species of the genus.
Flight period. Adults on the wing are recorded November–January (Vári 1961; Triberti 2004) and in May.
Host plant(s). Unknown.
Distribution. South Africa (Vári 1961); Seychelles (Gerlach & Matyot 2006); Namibia (Triberti 2004); Cameroon (new record).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- RBINS
- Event date
- 2005-05-01 , 2005-05-06 , 2005-05-09
- Verbatim event date
- 2005-05-01 , 2005-05-06/09 , 2005-05-09
- Scientific name authorship
- Meyrick
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gracillariidae
- Genus
- Cryptolectica
- Species
- euryphanta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cryptolectica euryphanta (Meyrick, 1911) sec. Sruoga & Prins, 2023
References
- Meyrick, E. (1911) Tortricina and Tineina. In: Gardiner, J. S. (Ed.), Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 14 (3). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 263 - 307. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1911. tb 00085. x
- Vari, L. (1961) South African Lepidoptera. Vol. I. Lithocolletidae. Transvaal Museum Memoir, 12, 1 - 238.
- Triberti, P. (2004) Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera, Gracillarioidea). In: Mey, W. (Ed.), The Lepidoptera of the Brandberg Massif in Namibia. Part 1. Esperiana Memoir, 1, pp. 75 - 89.
- Gerlach, J. & Matyot, P. (2006) Lepidoptera of the Seychelles islands. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, 130 pp., 32 pls.