Metriochroa Busck, 1900

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 : 27

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5529.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14041120
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scientific name	Metriochroa Busck, 1900
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Currently this genus includes 13 species worldwide, with seven species known to be found in the Afrotropics. In South Africa, two species have been recorded: M. pergulariae Vári, 1961 and M. tylophorae Vári, 1961 . Both species feed on Asclepiadaceae .

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Gracillariidae

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