Dragmatucha Meyrick, 1908

Karisch, Timm, Dutton, Amy-Jayne, Yu, Tae-Uk & Park, Kyu-Tek, 2025, Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) from Nimba Mts. bordering Liberia and Guinea, Part I: The subfamily Torodorinae, with descriptions of 15 new species, Zootaxa 5728 (2), pp. 247-286 : 253

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5728.2.2

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17894820

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Dragmatucha Meyrick, 1908
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Genus Dragmatucha Meyrick, 1908 View in CoL

Type species: Dragmatucha proaula Meyrick, 1908 . TL: South Africa .

The genus Dragmatucha is an Afrotropical genus, comprising 18 known species. Six of which are recorded from western Africa. The genus is superficially similar to Idiopteryx Walsingham, 1891 , but can be distinguished by the forewing venation, with M 3 coincident with CuA 1.

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