Dialectica pyramidota (Meyrick, 1918)

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 : 18

20. Dialectica pyramidota (Meyrick, 1918)

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Acrocercops pyramidota, Meyrick, 1918a , 6: 39

Dialectica pyramidota, Vári, 1961: 143

Material. 1♂, South Africa, Limpopo, Hoedspruit, York farm, mn 01/v/2017, pup 05/v/2017, em 15/v/2017, Ehretia rigida , (rearing: M 1729), A. & I. Sharp leg., CLV8182, slide TRB4380 ♂ .

Additional material. 18 adults collected with Malaise trap as follows:

eight adults, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park, Marula South , Crocodile Bridge , Lufund Chantal Muthelu leg., 22/v/2018, 09/vi/2018, 23/viii/2018, BIOUG43484-A01 , BIOUG43485-G02 , BIOUG43487- B08 , BIOUG43348-A12 , BIOUG43503-H03 , BIOUG43516-A08 , BIOUG43688-H05 , BIOUG46231-D02 ; two adults, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park , Marula South Lower Sabie , Constance Mathoho leg., 23/v/2018 and 09/vi/2018, BIOUG43697-G01 and BIOUG43705-F09 ; three adults, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park , Malelane , Albert Smith leg., 27/v/2018, 10/vi/2018, BIOUG48549-G08 , BIOUG48535-A07 , BIOUG48535-F09 ; two adults, South Africa, Limpopo, Kruger National Park , Skukuza camp, Lindokuhle Gumede leg., 05/vi/2018, BIOUG43087-B01 , BIOUG43093-C12 ; three adults, South Africa, Limpopo, Kruger National Park , Nxanatseni North woodlands, Philile Dlamini leg., 17/vi/2018, 14/vi/2018, BIOUG43241-F10 , BIOUG43340- F06 , BIOUG43346-E06 .

Biology. Ehretia rigida (Thunb.) Druce ( Boraginaceae ).

Distribution. South Africa (Gauteng, Limpopo, Eastern Cape). New finding for Mpumalanga.

DNA barcodes. 19 barcodes forming a unique BIN (BOLD:ADT0486) with a genetic distance of 7.97 % to its nearest neighbor ( Table S1 ).

Figures

FIGURES 13–18. Adults of South African Gracillariidae. 13, Cryptolectica capnodecta, Limpopo, Hoedspruit, A. & I. Sharp leg. 14, C. terminalina, Limpopo, Hoedspruit,A. & I. Sharp leg. 15, Dialectica pyramidota, Limpopo, Hoedspruit,A. & I. Sharp leg. 16, Amblyptila cynanchi, Western Cape, Knysna, S. Mecenero leg. 17, Leucocercops dasmophora, Gauteng, Tshwane, A. & I. Sharp leg. 18, L. curatellifoliae sp. nov. Limpopo, Hoedspruit, A. & I. Sharp leg.