Dichomeris acuminata (Staudinger, 1876)

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 : 52-53

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scientific name	Dichomeris acuminata (Staudinger, 1876)
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121. Dichomeris acuminata (Staudinger, 1876)

= Mesophleps (?) acuminatus Staudinger, 1876: 148 ; TL: Italy, Valdesi, Sicily (Monotypy) (MFN).

= Hypsolophus ianthes Meyrick, 1887: 273 ; TL: France, St. Denis , Reunion (Holotype ♀) ( NHMUK) .

= Ypsolophus rusticus Walsingham, 1891: 525 ; TL: West Indies , St. Vincent; USA, Texas (Syntypes) ( NHMUK) .

= Ypsolophus lotellus Constant, 1893: 398 ; TL: France, Alpes-Maritimes (Type not stated) ( MNHN) .

= Ypsolophus ammoxanthus Meyrick, 1904: 430 ; TL: Australia, Duaringa , Queensland (Syntypes ♂) ( NHMUK) .

= Ypsolophus ochrophanes Meyrick, 1907a: 981 ; TL: Sri Lanka [Ceylon] Ambulangoda & Puttalam; India, Pusa, Bengal (now in Bihar) (Syntypes) ( NHMUK) .

= Dichomeris acuminatus View in CoL : Karsholt & Riedl 1996: 120.

Distribution: India: Bihar and Rajasthan (Meena et al. 2018), Himachal Pradesh (Solan), Uttarakhand (Dehradun) (Pathania et al. 2006). Elsewhere : Africa: Kenya, Namibia, South Africa; Asia: Israel, Japan, China, Sri Lanka, Taiwan; Europe: Corsica, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain; North America: Arizona, California, Florida; Oceania: Australia, Hawaii (Ponomarenko 1997).

Illustrations: Adult and genitalia ( Clarke 1969b: 27; Li et al. 2013: 571; Bippus 2016: 63).

Hosts: Aeschynomene americana , Cajanus sp. , C. cajan , Codariocalyx gyroides , C. gyroides Cyamopsis sp. , C. tetragonoloba , Desmodium sp. , Glycine max , Indigofera sp. , I. pseudotinctoria , I. tinctaria , Lotus rectus , Medicago sp. , M. sativa , Pisum sativum , Sesbania sp. , S. sericea , S. sesban , Tephrosia sp. , T. candida , T. maxima , T. purpurea , T. sinapou , T. vogelii , Trifolium pratense , T. repens ( Fabaceae ) (Robinson et al. 2023).