Cryptolectica terminalina ( Vári, 1961 )

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 : 18

19. Cryptolectica terminalina ( Vári, 1961)

( Figs 14 , 72 )

Acrocercops terminalina Vári, 1961: 157

Cryptolectica terminalina Sruoga & De Prins, 2023: 87

Material. 1♂, South Africa, Limpopo, Hoedspruit, Casketts farm, mn 25/ii/2015, pup 28/ii/2015, em 08/iii/2015, (rearing: M1069), A. & I. Sharp leg., CLV7567, slide TRB4365 ♂ .

Biology. Known on Terminalia brachystemma Welw. ex Hiern (= T. silozensis Gibbs ), here we reared for the first time on Terminalia sericea Burch. ex DC. ( Combretaceae ) ( Fig. 72 ).

Distribution. Known from Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa (Limpopo).

DNA barcodes. A single barcode on its own unique BIN (BOLD:AEC2933) very divergent (8.97%) from any other Gracillariidae in BOLD ( Table S1 ).

Figures

FIGURES 13–18. Adults of South African Gracillariidae. 13, Cryptolectica capnodecta, Limpopo, Hoedspruit, A. & I. Sharp leg. 14, C. terminalina, Limpopo, Hoedspruit,A. & I. Sharp leg. 15, Dialectica pyramidota, Limpopo, Hoedspruit,A. & I. Sharp leg. 16, Amblyptila cynanchi, Western Cape, Knysna, S. Mecenero leg. 17, Leucocercops dasmophora, Gauteng, Tshwane, A. & I. Sharp leg. 18, L. curatellifoliae sp. nov. Limpopo, Hoedspruit, A. & I. Sharp leg.

FIGURES 67–72. Immature stages of South African Gracillariidae. 67, Conopomorphina aptata, mine on Schotia brachypetala (Fabaceae), Limpopo, Hoedspruit, A. & I. Sharp leg. 68, Acrocercops syzygiena, mine on Syzygium cordatum (Myrtaceae), Gauteng, Tshwane, A. & I. Sharp leg. 69, A. syzygiena, larva, ibidem. 70, A. combreticola, mine on Combretum zeyheri (Combretaceae) Gauteng, Tshwane, A. Sharp leg. 71, Cryptolectica capnodecta, larva on Syzygium cordatum (Myrtaceae), Limpopo, Hoedspruit, A. & I. Sharp leg. 72, C. terminalina, mine on Terminalia sericea (Combretaceae), A. & I. Sharp leg.