Mesophleps meliphanes ( Lower, 1894 ) Li & Sattler, 2012

Li, Houhun & Sattler, Klaus, 2012, A taxonomic revision of the genus Mesophleps Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 3373, Zootaxa 3373, pp. 1-82 : 54

publication ID

1175­5334

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5255498

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039B87F3-A65B-4A08-FF2F-FBAA314DF9AB

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scientific name

Mesophleps meliphanes ( Lower, 1894 )
status

comb. nov.

Mesophleps meliphanes ( Lower, 1894) View in CoL comb. nov.

Cleodora meliphanes Lower, 1894 View in CoL , Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 18: 107. Holotype ♀ [not ♂], AUSTRALIA: South Australia, Blackwood , 6.xi.1891 (Lower) (SAM, Adelaide) [examined].

Xerometra meliphanes (Lower) ; Meyrick 1925: 170; Edwards 1996: 108.

Genitalia ♂. Not examined.

Genitalia ♀. Not examined.

Remarks. The holotype in coll. Lower is a female, not a male as stated in the original description; it was examined superficially but not dissected. Meyrick (1925: 170) placed meliphanes between chloranthes Lower and apentheta Turner, Edwards (1996: 108) between apentheta and chloranthes Lower.

Biology. Host-plant unknown.

Distribution. Australia (South Australia).

Material examined (1 ♀, no genitalia preparation)

Australia: 1 ♀, holotype (as above) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Gelechiidae

Genus

Mesophleps

Loc

Mesophleps meliphanes ( Lower, 1894 )

Li, Houhun & Sattler, Klaus 2012
2012
Loc

Xerometra meliphanes (Lower)

Edwards, E. D. 1996: 108
Meyrick, E. 1925: 170
1925
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