Hypatima tetraptila (Meyrick, 1909)

Bidzilya, Oleksiy, 2021, New host-plants records of Afrotropical Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera), with description of three new species, Zootaxa 4952 (3), pp. 495-522 : 501-502

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4952.3.4

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4700919

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Hypatima tetraptila (Meyrick, 1909)
status

 

Hypatima tetraptila (Meyrick, 1909) View in CoL

Figs 15, 16 View FIGURES 12–16

Semodictis tetraptila Meyrick, 1909a: 16 View in CoL , pl. 5, f. 7. TL: South Africa: Gauteng, Kranspoort.

Hypatima tetraptila (Meyrick, 1909) View in CoL — Janse 1949: 50.

Material examined. 1♂, 17HSS227, pup. 21.i.2018, em. 31.i.2018 (gen. slide 219/19, O. Bidzilya); 1♂, LepsocAfrica CRG, Staude et al. (2016), SM 393b, Gelechiidae reared on Searsia crenata , Anacardiaceae, Robberg Nature Reserve, South Africa, Western Cape, Plettenberg Bay 34˚06’10’’S, 23˚23’32’’E, 26.v.2014 eclosed (S. Mecenero) (gen. slide 122/19, O. Bidzilya) ( HSS); 1♂, Beacon Bay, East London, Eastern Cape, from larva ex Allophylus , em. 7.x.1982 (N.L. Duke) ( TMSA).

Biology. The larvae were observed feeding on Searsia crenata (Anacardiaceae) in January and May. Adults emerged 31.i and 26.v. One male ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 12–16 ) was bred from Allophylus sp. ( Sapindaceae ) in early October ( Staude et al. 2020: 297 as unidentified species 17HSS227).

Distribution. South Africa ( Meyrick 1916; Janse 1949: 42).

SM

Sarawak Museum

HSS

Research Centre of "La Orden-Valdesequera"

TMSA

Transvaal Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Gelechiidae

Genus

Hypatima

Loc

Hypatima tetraptila (Meyrick, 1909)

Bidzilya, Oleksiy 2021
2021
Loc

Hypatima tetraptila (Meyrick, 1909)

Janse, A. J. T. 1949: 50
1949
Loc

Semodictis tetraptila

Meyrick, E. 1909: 16
1909
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