Torodora ochrometra (Meyrick, 1933) Park & Prins, 2019

Park, Kyu-Tek & Prins, Willy De, 2019, A review of the Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) of southern Africa, based on type specimens deposited in the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (TMSA), with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 4623 (1), pp. 61-89 : 87

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4623.1.5

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F01190BC-7DF5-478A-8130-214313851BF1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/251587B9-5347-FFDC-FF4D-0EF72A60FB89

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scientific name

Torodora ochrometra (Meyrick, 1933)
status

comb. nov.

Torodora ochrometra (Meyrick, 1933) View in CoL , comb. nov.

Lecithocera ochrometra Meyrick, 1933 , Exotic Microlepidoptera 4: 356. TL: N. Rhodesia [ Zambia]. [NHMUK].

Adult. Wingspan 19 mm.

Male genitalia: a study of the figures given in Clarke (1965, Pl. 74, Figs. 1, 1a, b View FIGURE 1 ) clearly demonstrates that this species belongs to Torodora , and hence it is transferred here to that genus.

Material examined. Male (holotype), [ Zambia], N Rhodesia, Congo-Zambesi watershed (H.S. Evans) in NHMUK .

Distribution. Zambia (Meyrick 1933).

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Lecithoceridae

Genus

Torodora

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