Afrotropical Gracillariidae
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Stomphastis
thraustica (Meyrick, 1908)
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| Original
description: |
"Acrocercops thraustica, sp. nov." --- Meyrick, 1908. Records of the Indian Museum 2(4): 398. | |
| Type locality: | [India], Calcutta. | |
| Type specimens:
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Holotype female, Paratype 1 female, BMNH. | |
| Foodplants: |
Sebastiana chamaelea Müller, A. R. G., Jatropha gossypifolia L., J. curcas L., Ricinus communis () [Euphorbiaceae], Coffea [Rubiaceae], Hibiscus [Malvaceae], Leucas martinicensis [Labiatae], Triumfetta [Tiliaceae], Camellia sinensis [Theaceae] (cf. Meyrick 1914: 122, Fletcher 1920: 161, Fletcher 1933: 59, Triberti 1988: 299, BMNH database). | |
| Distribution: |
Oriental: India, Malaysia; Afrotropical: Central African
Republic, Congo, Ghana, Madagascar, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe.
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| Synonym: | Stomphastis plectica Meyrick, 1912. In Wytsman, Genera Insectorum 128: 19, figs. 1, 26. Synonymized by Fletcher 1933: 59. | |
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