Alucita ectomesa (Hering, 1917)

Ustjuzhanin, Petr & Kovtunovich, Vasily, 2016, The Alucitidae (Lepidoptera) of Malawi with descriptions of five new species, Zootaxa 4126 (4), pp. 533-547 : 535

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4126.4.5

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6087737

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Alucita ectomesa (Hering, 1917)
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Alucita ectomesa (Hering, 1917) View in CoL

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Orneodes ectomesa Hering, 1917: 190 . (Type locality: N. Nyasa View in CoL , Tanzania).

Orneodes myriodesma Meyrick, 1929: 533 . (Type locality: Makulane, [ Mozambique]) syn. nov.

Material examined. 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (CUK), 20 km N Thazima Gate, 07.i.2009; 2 ♀ (CUK), 11–12.i.2009, 2 ♀ (CUK), 28–29.xii.2010, Mugesse Forest, Kovtunovich V. & Ustjuzhanin P.; 1 ♀ (CUK), Uzumara, 28–31.i.2014, R. Murphy .

Distribution. Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania.

Remarks. We have carefully examined the holotype of A. ectomesa and compared it to the holotype of A. myriodesma . In the absence of any differences observed, we consider these taxa to belong to the same species. On the basis of this evidence, we synonymize A. myriodesma with A. ectomesa syn. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Alucitidae

Genus

Alucita

Loc

Alucita ectomesa (Hering, 1917)

Ustjuzhanin, Petr & Kovtunovich, Vasily 2016
2016
Loc

Orneodes myriodesma

Meyrick 1929: 533
1929
Loc

Orneodes ectomesa

Hering 1917: 190
1917
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