Conopobathra carbunculata ( Meyrick, 1912 )

Triberti, Paolo, Staude, Hermann, Sharp, Ian & Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos, 2024, Exploring the diversity of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) in South Africa: host plants, distribution, and DNA barcoding analysis, with the description of nine new species, Zootaxa 5529 (1), pp. 1-51 : 14-15

13. Conopobathra carbunculata ( Meyrick, 1912)

( Fig. 79 )

Acrocercops carbunculata, Meyrick 1912 , 1: 24.

Conopobathra carbunculata, Vári 1961: 97 .

Material. 1♂, South Africa, Limpopo, Hoedspruit, York farm, mn 14.i.2018, em 21.i.2018, Peltophorum africanum , A. & I. Sharp leg. (rearing: M1993), CLV8178, slide TRB4417 ♂.

Additional material. Four adults caught with light traps and eleven adults collected with malaise traps as follows: one adult, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Blyde River Canyon, Swadini Resort , 18/xi/2017, J.deWaard and E.Zakharov leg., (light trap), BIOUG36798 -A08 ; four adults, South Africa, Limpopo, Franklyn Park , 17/ xi/2017, J.deWaard, E.Zakharov, C. Lopez-Vaamonde leg., (light trap), BIOUG36903 -C04, BIOUG36904 -E03, BIOUG36904 -E07, CLV7488 ; two adults, South Africa, Limpopo, Lapalala Wilderness , 14/xi/2017, A. Hausmann, H. Staude, C. Lopez-Vaamonde leg., (light trap), CLV740917 , BC ZSM Lep 104778 ; one adult, South Africa, Limpopo, Moholoholo Yamati Resort , 17/xi/2017, C. Lopez-Vaamonde leg., (light trap), CLV7459 ; one adult, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park, Skukuza camp, 02/vi/2018, Kally Ubisi leg., (Malaise trap), BIOUG43526 -B04 ; one adult, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park , 29/viii/2018, Stolznek, Marius Snyders leg., (Malaise trap), BIOUG44924 -A12 ; one adult, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park , 28/ i/2019, Stolznek, Marius Snyders leg., (Malaise trap), BIOUG46914 -F04 ; one adult, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park, Kingfisherspruit , 05/iii/2019, Eddie Sibuyi leg., (Malaise trap), BIOUG47207 -G05 ; one adult, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park, Olifants , James Belebes leg., 10/i/2019, (Malaise trap), BIOUG47507 -F05 ; one adult, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park, Lower Sabie , Constance Mathoho leg., 12/xii/2018, (Malaise trap), BIOUG47821 -D12 ; one adult, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park, Malelane , Albert Smith leg., 08/xii/2018, (Malaise trap), BIOUG48767 -F09 .

Biology. Peltophorum africanum Sond. ( Fabaceae ) ( Fig. 79 ). The hostplant of this species was unknown.

Distribution. South Africa (Mpumalanga, Gauteng, Limpopo), Namibia, Zimbabwe. First record for Limpopo.

DNA barcodes. 17 barcodes forming a single BIN BOLD:ADL9100 ( Table S1 ).

Remarks. Valva and phallus of male genitalia very peculiar (see plate 57, fig. 5 in Vári 1961) show no affinity with the other species of this genus.

Figures

FIGURES 78–83. Immature stages of South African Gracillariidae. 78, Phodoryctis tephrosiella, mines on Tephrosia rhodesica (Fabaceae). Gauteng, Tshwane, A. Sharp leg. 79, Conopobathra carbunculata, mines on Peltophorum africanum (Fabaceae), Limpopo, York, A. & I. Sharp leg. 80, Phyllonorycter grewiella, mine on Grewia hexamita (Malvaceae), A. & I. Sharp leg. 81, P. pseudogrewiella sp. nov., mines on Grewia flavescens (Malvaceae), Limpopo, Hoedspruit, A. & I. Sharp leg. 82, P. pseudogrewiella sp. nov., larva, ibidem. 83, P. pseudogrewiella sp. nov., mines and pupae, ibidem.