Gnathifera bipunctata ( Gaedike, 1968 )

Gaedike, Reinhard, 2018, New data on the taxonomy, distribution and host plants of Australian Epermeniidae (Lepidoptera: Epermenioidea), Zootaxa 4524 (1), pp. 33-50 : 36-37

Gnathifera bipunctata ( Gaedike, 1968)

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Ochromolopis bipunctata Gaedike, 1968: 611 , figs 15–17

= ♀ Ochromolopis queenslandi Gaedike, 1968: 611 , figs 31a–31b

Gnathifera bipunctata ( Gaedike, 1968) : Gaedike, 1978: 208

Material studied. Western Australia: 2 ♂, 1 ♀, Kununurra, emg. 3.v.1999, leg. A. Postle, Larva mining leaf of seedling Santalum album , ANIC .

Distribution. New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia ( Gaedike, 1968, 1972).

Bionomics. The larvae mine the seedling leaves of Santalum album L. (new host plant).

Figures

FIGURES 7–12. Adults. 7, Gnathifera bipunctata, ♂, W.A., Kununurra, emg. 3.v.1999, leg. A. Postle, Larva mining leaf of seedling Santalum album, genitalia slide ANIC 13890, ANIC. 8, Gnathifera luridicapitella, holotype ♂, 29 miles SW of Whyalla, S. A., 8 May 1970, [leg.] I. F. B. Common, genitalia slide Gaedike Nr. 9240, ANIC. 9, Gnathifera queenslandi, ♀, Barren Grounds Fauna Res., N.S.W., 27.vii.1976, leg. V. J. Robinson, ANIC. 10, Gnathifera acacivorella, ♂, CSIRO Exp. Fm., Wilton, N.S.W., 20.xii.1976, leg. V. J. Robinson, genitalia slide Gaedike Nr. 9171, ANIC. 11, Gnathifera fuscostriata, holotype ♂, 27°34'S, 152°02'E, 400m, 6.5km E of Toowoomba, QLD, 6 Aug. 1985, [leg.] I. F. B. Common, genitalia slide Gaedike Nr. 9197, ANIC. 12, Gnathifera fuscostriata, paratype ♀, Murphys Creek nr. Toowoomba, Q. 18 Oct. 1982, [leg.] I. F. B. Common, genitalia slide Gaedike Nr. 9189, ANIC.