Anarsia amalleuta Meyrick, 1913

Bidzilya, Oleksiy, 2021, New host-plants records of Afrotropical Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera), with description of three new species, Zootaxa 4952 (3), pp. 495-522 : 500

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4952.3.4
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E32A9743-839A-4740-A8B7-E82340238097
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4690601
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scientific name	Anarsia amalleuta Meyrick, 1913
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Anarsia amalleuta Meyrick, 1913 View in CoL

Anarsia amalleuta Meyrick, 1913a: 298 View in CoL . TL: South Africa: Mpumalanga, Three Sisters.

Material examined. 1♂, LepsocAfrica CRG, Staude et al. (2016), M1464b, Gelechioidea, reared on Vachellia robusta , Fabaceae, Jongmanspruit, Hoedspruit , South Africa, Limpopo, 24˚15’53.4”S, 30˚53’28.5”E, 12.xi.2016, eclosed (A. & I. Sharp) (gen. slide in glycerol vial) ( HSS).

Biology. The larva was observed feeding on Vachellia robusta (Fabaceae) in November. The adult emerged on 12.xi ( Staude et al. 2020: 55). Previously larvae were recorded on Vachellia tortilis and Vachellia gerrardii in Kenya (Bidzilya & Agassiz 2016: 127).

Distribution. South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya ( Meyrick 1913a; Janse 1949; Agassiz & Bidzilya 2016: 127).