Afrotropical Gracillariidae

by Jurate De Prins - Royal Museum for Central Africa

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Amblyptila cynanchi Vári, 1961
 
Original description:
"Amblyptila cynanchi spec. nov." --- Vári, 1961. Transvaal Museum Memoir 12 (South African Lepidoptera, I. Lithocolletidae), p. 175-176, pl. 18, fig. 8; pl. 37, fig. 1; pl. 63, fig. 5; pl. 101, fig. 3; pl. 109, fig. 15.
Type locality: South Africa, Cape Province, Port Elisabeth.
Type specimens:
Holotype male, Allotype female, Paratypes 21 males 20 females, TMSA.
Foodplants:
Cynanchum (=Vincetoxicum) obtusifolium Linn., C. ellipticum (Harv.) Dyer [Asclepiadaceae] (Vári 1961).
Distribution:
Afrotropical: South Africa.
 
Picture:Amblyptila cynanchi adult