Phthorimaea operculella ( Zeller, 1873 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 35

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C46C-FFFB-62F6-FE94FDA8994A

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Phthorimaea operculella ( Zeller, 1873 )
status

 

Phthorimaea operculella ( Zeller, 1873) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Potato tuber moth. SYNONYM(S): Gelechia terrella Walker, 1864b View in CoL ; Gelechia piscipellis Zeller, 1873 View in CoL , Gelechia solanella Boisduval, 1874 , Gelechia tabacella Ragonot, 1879 View in CoL ; Gelechia sedata Butler, 1880 View in CoL . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Burundi, Cabo Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Oman, Réunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena View in CoL , Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Brassica oleracea View in CoL L.,( Brassicaceae View in CoL ), Eugenia sp.(Myrtaceae) , Coffea sp. (Rubiaceae) , Datura sp. , Capsicum sp. , Solanum tuberosum L. View in CoL Solanum americanum View in CoL L., Nicotiana tabacum L. (Solanaceae) View in CoL , Typha sp. (Typhaceae) , Vaccinium sp. (Ericaceae) . SOURCES: Cruickshank & Ahmed 1973; De Prins & De Prins 2022.

Genus Scrobipalpa Janse, 1951 View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Gelechiidae

Genus

Phthorimaea

Loc

Phthorimaea operculella ( Zeller, 1873 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023
2023
Loc

Scrobipalpa

Janse 1951
1951
Loc

Gelechia sedata

Butler 1880
1880
Loc

Gelechia tabacella

Ragonot 1879
1879
Loc

Gelechia solanella

Boisduval 1874
1874
Loc

Gelechia piscipellis

Zeller 1873
1873
Loc

Gelechia terrella

Walker 1864
1864
Loc

Brassicaceae

G.T.Burnett 1835
1835
Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF