Dichomeris coenulenta ( Meyrick, 1927 )

Bidzilya, Oleksiy, 2021, New host-plants records of Afrotropical Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera), with description of three new species, Zootaxa 4952 (3), pp. 495-522 : 504-505

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scientific name	Dichomeris coenulenta ( Meyrick, 1927 )
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Dichomeris coenulenta ( Meyrick, 1927) View in CoL

Figs 17, 18 View FIGURES 17–19 , 21 View FIGURES 20–22

Cymotricha coenulenta Meyrick, 1927: 355 View in CoL . TL: Zimbabwe: Umtali.

Trichotaphe coenulenta ( Meyrick, 1927) — Janse 1954: 266.

Dichomeris coenulenta ( Meyrick, 1927) View in CoL — Ponomarenko 2009: 266.

Material examined. 1♀, South Africa, Limpopo, Vaalwater, Lapalala Wilderness, 23 52 47 S, 28 19 56 E, reared on Pterocarpus rotundifolia , Fabaceae , idem 17HSS99a, pup. 1.xii.2017, em. 12.xii.2017 (H. Staude) (gen. slide 200/19, O. Bidzilya); 1♀, idem 17HSS99, pup. 24.xi.2017, em. 30.xi.2017; 1♂, idem 17HSS99, pup. 24.xi.2017, em. 6.xii.2017 (H. Staude) (gen. slide 209/19, O. Bidzilya); 1♀, LepsocAfrica, Staude et al. (2016), M1283, Dichomeris sp. (det. L. Aarvik), Dichomeridinae , Gelechiidae , reared on Pterocarpus rotundifolia , Fabaceae, SAWC , South Africa, Limpopo, Hoedspruit, 24˚20’36’’S, 31˚09’07’’E, 16.iv.2016 eclosed (A. & I. Sharp) (gen. slide 150/19, O. Bidzilya) (all HSS).

Biology. The larvae were observed feeding on Pterocarpus rotundifolia (Fabaceae) in April and November. Adults emerged 6.iv and 12.xii ( Staude et al. 2020: 56).

Distribution. South Africa (new record); Zimbabwe ( Meyrick 1927: 355).

Remarks. The female genitalia of two studied specimens ( Fig. 21 View FIGURES 20–22 ) match in all details the illustration of the lectotype in Janse (1954, pl. 195, fig. 3). The male genitalia are indistinguishable from those of D. oenombra ( Meyrick, 1914) sensu Janse (1954 , Pl. 186, fig. 5; pl. 193, fig. 5). However, the male genitalia of the type of C. oenombra from Nyasaland (now Malawi) illustrated by Clarke (1969: 530, Pl. 264, figs 1-1b) do not match the above mentioned figures in Janse, which in fact represent D. coenulenta .