Acrocercops syzygiena Vári, 1961

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 : 16-17

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.14021813

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B0122E24-716C-FF9C-24BE-D5E1FAD9FE9B

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scientific name

Acrocercops syzygiena Vári, 1961
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16. Acrocercops syzygiena Vári, 1961 View in CoL

( Figs 11 View FIGURES 7–12 , 68–69 View FIGURES 67–72 )

Acrocercops syzygiena, Vári, 1961: 156 View in CoL .

Material. 1♀, South Africa, Gauteng, Tshwane , 25°35’13.2”S, 28°25’44.4”E, 1270 m, mn 08/iv/2014, pup 22/ iv/2014, (rearing: M1459), A. & I. Sharp leg., CLV7557 , SOURE001-19, slide TRB4366♀ GoogleMaps .

Biology. Vári (1961) described the biology of A. syzygiena on Syzygium cordatum (Hochst.) . Here we present a new host plant record on S. guineense Wall. ( Myrtaceae ) ( Figs 68-69 View FIGURES 67–72 ).

Distribution. South Africa (Limpopo).

DNA barcodes. One single barcode on its own BIN BOLD:AEC2932. The sequence is very divergent to any Gracillariid sequence present in BOLD with 10.56% to the nearest match ( Table S1 View TABLE 1 ).

Remarks. Male and female genitalia of syzygiena , figured by Vári (1961), are not related with any known genus. Pending further material for a detailed phylogenetic analysis, this species is left in Acrocercops .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Gracillariidae

Genus

Acrocercops

Loc

Acrocercops syzygiena Vári, 1961

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

Acrocercops syzygiena, Vári, 1961: 156

Vari, L. 1961: 156
1961
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