Afrotropical Gracillariidae
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Aspilapteryx
filifera (Meyrick, 1912)
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| Original
description: |
"Gracilaria filifera, n. sp." --- Meyrick, 1912. Exotic Microlepidoptera 1: 27. | |
| Type locality: | [South Africa], Transvaal, Pretoria. | |
| Type specimens:
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2 male syntypes, Metallotype female, TMSA. | |
| Foodplants: |
Unknown. | |
| Distribution: |
Afrotropical: Namibia, South Africa.
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| Remark: | Junior subjective synonym of Caloptilia pentaplaca (Meyrick, 1911), synonymized by Triberti 1987: 125. Not acknowledged by Vári (2002, pers. comm.). | |
