Phthorimaea operculella ( Zeller, 1873 )
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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C46C-FFFB-62F6-FE94FC8D98A7 |
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Plazi |
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Phthorimaea operculella ( Zeller, 1873 ) |
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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, 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.
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Phthorimaea operculella ( Zeller, 1873 )
| Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023 |
Gelechia sedata
| Butler 1880 |
Gelechia tabacella
| Ragonot 1879 |
Gelechia solanella
| Boisduval 1874 |
Gelechia piscipellis
| Zeller 1873 |
Gelechia terrella
| Walker 1864 |
Brassicaceae
| G.T.Burnett 1835 |