Thiotricha pancratiastis Meyrick, 1921

D, Nandhini, R, Shashank P., Joshi, Rahul & Reddy, Karthik M., 2024, A catalogue of Indian Gelechiidae Stainton, 1854 (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea), Zootaxa 5420 (1), pp. 1-121 : 99

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5420.1.1

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scientific name

Thiotricha pancratiastis Meyrick, 1921
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339. Thiotricha pancratiastis Meyrick, 1921 View in CoL

Thiotricha pancratiastis Meyrick, 1921: 426 View in CoL ; TL: India, Shillong , Assam (now in Meghalaya) (Type ♂) ( NHMUK) .

Distribution: India: Meghalaya (Shillong). Elsewhere : Japan (Oku et al. 2018), Korea, and Taiwan ( Koo et al. 2020).

Illustrations: Adult and genitalia ( Clarke 1969b: 464; Fujita et al. 2009: 428; Oku et al. 2018: 11; Koo et al. 2020: 38; Lee et al. 2021: 371).

Remark: Pre-dispersal seed predation of bayberry, Myrica rubra on Yakushima Island, Japan. It attacks the fruits during the primary stage of fruit development and feeds on the seeds of M. rubra . It was earlier known to be a foliage feeder (leaf miner), but then is has been reported as a seed predator of the bayberry ( Fujita et al. 2009).

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Gelechiidae

Genus

Thiotricha

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Thiotricha pancratiastis Meyrick, 1921

D, Nandhini, R, Shashank P., Joshi, Rahul & Reddy, Karthik M. 2024
2024
Loc

Thiotricha pancratiastis

Meyrick 1921: 426
1921
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