Thaumatotibia Zacher, 1915

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Thaumatotibia Zacher, 1915

Type species: Thaumatotibia roerigii Zacher, 1915 , a junior synynym of Argyroploce leucotreta Meyrick, 1913 .

Thaumatotibia includes 17 described species ranging from the Oriental Region to South Africa and Madagascar ( Komai 1999, Brown 2005); most species are indigenous to the Afrotropical Region. Species assigned to Thaumatotibia were included in Cryptophlebia Walsingham, 1900 until Komai (1999) distinguished the two genera. Based on morphology, Adamski and Brown (2001) suggested that Thaumatotibia is the sister to ( Cryptophlebia + Pseudogalleria Ragonot, 1884 )+ Gymnandrosoma Dyar, 1904 .

Larvae of Thaumatotibia feed primarily in seeds and have been reported from a wide range of plant families, including Annonaceae , Apocynaceae , Bromeliaceae , Capparaceae , Celastraceae , Combretaceae , Ebenaceae , Fabaceae , Malvaceae , Oxalidaceae , Rubiaceae , Rutaceae , Sapotaceae , Solanaceae , Sterculiaceae , and Theaceae ( Komai 1999) . The majority of the reported host records for Thaumatotibia are for two species: T. leucotreta ( Meyrick, 1913) , the false codling moth, and T. batrochopa (Meyrick, 1908) .