Caloptilia mwamba De Prins, 2015

Triberti, Paolo, Staude, Hermann, Sharp, Ian & Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos, 2024, Exploring the diversity of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) in South Africa: host plants, distribution, and DNA barcoding analysis, with the description of nine new species, Zootaxa 5529 (1), pp. 1-51 : 7

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5529.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0613682E-532B-482F-A498-6714A01F5DE5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14041031

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B0122E24-7165-FF8A-24BE-D6C7FA5CF8E6

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Caloptilia mwamba De Prins, 2015
status

 

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Caloptilia mwamba De Prins, 2015: 388 View in CoL

Material examined. One adult, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park, Skukuza camp, 21/xi/2017, C. Lopez-Vaamonde leg. (light trap), CLV7499 .

Biology. Known to feed on Cremaspora triflora (Thonn.) K. Schum. ( Rubiaceae ).

Distribution. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya and Tanzania. This species is newly discovered in South Africa (Mpumalanga).

DNA barcodes. Our South African barcode forms a BIN, BOLD:AAC5054 along with a barcode from Kenya.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Gracillariidae

Genus

Caloptilia

Loc

Caloptilia mwamba De Prins, 2015

Triberti, Paolo, Staude, Hermann, Sharp, Ian & Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos 2024
2024
Loc

Caloptilia mwamba

De Prins 2015: 388
2015
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