Afrotropical Gracillariidae

by Jurate De Prins - Royal Museum for Central Africa

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Aristaea bathracma (Meyrick, 1912)
 
Original description:
"Parectopa bathracma, n. sp." --- Meyrick, 1912. Exotic Microlepidoptera 1: 25.
Type locality: South Africa, Transvaal, Pretoria, Barberton.
Type specimens:
6 syntypes (male and female), TMSA.
Foodplants:
Aster egeratoides [Asteraceae] (Kuznetzov & Baryshnikova 1998: 7).
Distribution:
Palaearctic: Japan, Russia; Afrotropical: Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda.
 
Picture:Aristaea bathracma adult