Caloptilia dicksoni 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 : 6

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.14041023

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B0122E24-7166-FF89-24BE-D735FB6AF99D

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scientific name

Caloptilia dicksoni Vári, 1961
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2. Caloptilia dicksoni Vári, 1961 View in CoL

Caloptilia dicksoni Vári, 1961: 20 View in CoL

Material examined. 1♂, South Africa, Gauteng, Magaliesburg, Golden Valley farm, mn 14/x/2016, em 09/xii/2016, Searsia pyroides, CLV7572 , slide TRB4442♂ .

Biology. Searsia (= Rhus ) pyroides (Burch.) Moffett ( Anacardiaceae ).

Distribution. South Africa (Eastern Cape, Gauteng). The species is new to Gauteng.

DNA barcodes. A single barcode (CLV7572, SOURE016-19) is known for this species. This barcode is assigned to a unique BIN BOLD:AEC5342. The Asian Caloptilia acericola Kumata, 1966 is the nearest neighbor of this species ( Table S1 View TABLE 1 ).

Remarks. Species known only from the male holotype. The collected specimen, which was somewhat descaled, closely matches Vári’s description of the genitalia, particularly in terms of the valva shape and the presence of 7–8 cornuti in the vesica. Please refer to the previous section for a comparison of morphological differences with the previous species. As Triberti (2019) pointed out, the specimen collected by Wolfram Mey in Sneeuberg (Eastern Cape), was tentatively identified as C. dicksoni due to minor variations in the male genitalia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Gracillariidae

Genus

Caloptilia

Loc

Caloptilia dicksoni Vári, 1961

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

Caloptilia dicksoni Vári, 1961: 20

Vari, L. 1961: 20
1961
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