Encolpotis heliopepta Meyrick, 1918

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 : 87-88

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

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scientific name

Encolpotis heliopepta Meyrick, 1918
status

 

287. Encolpotis heliopepta Meyrick, 1918 View in CoL

Encolpotis heliopepta Meyrick, 1918: 153 View in CoL ; TL: India, Shillong , Assam (now in Meghalaya) (Type ♀) ( NHMUK) .

Distribution: India: Meghalaya (Shillong).

Illustrations: Adult and genitalia ( Clarke 1969b: 55).

Remark: This is the only representative of the genus from Oriental region, and it is endemic to India. The other two known species, E. scioplasta Meyrick, 1920 and E. xanthoria Meyrick, 1909 , are known from the African region (Savela 2023).

Genus Epimimastis Meyrick, 1904: 325 View in CoL ; TS: Gelechia porphyroloma Lower, 1897 View in CoL

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Gelechiidae

Genus

Encolpotis

Loc

Encolpotis heliopepta Meyrick, 1918

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

Epimimastis

Meyrick, E. 1904: 325
1904
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