13. Conopobathra carbunculata (Meyrick, 1912)

(Fig. 79)

Acrocercops carbunculata, Meyrick 1912, 1: 24.

Conopobathra carbunculata, Vári 1961: 97 .

Material. 1♂, South Africa, Limpopo, Hoedspruit, York farm, mn 14.i.2018, em 21.i.2018, Peltophorum africanum, A. & I. Sharp leg. (rearing: M1993), CLV8178, slide TRB4417 ♂.

Additional material. Four adults caught with light traps and eleven adults collected with malaise traps as follows: one adult, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Blyde River Canyon, Swadini Resort, 18/xi/2017, J.deWaard and E.Zakharov leg., (light trap), BIOUG36798 -A08 ; four adults, South Africa, Limpopo, Franklyn Park, 17/ xi/2017, J.deWaard, E.Zakharov, C. Lopez-Vaamonde leg., (light trap), BIOUG36903 -C04, BIOUG36904 -E03, BIOUG36904 -E07, CLV7488 ; two adults, South Africa, Limpopo, Lapalala Wilderness, 14/xi/2017, A. Hausmann, H. Staude, C. Lopez-Vaamonde leg., (light trap), CLV740917, BC ZSM Lep 104778 ; one adult, South Africa, Limpopo, Moholoholo Yamati Resort, 17/xi/2017, C. Lopez-Vaamonde leg., (light trap), CLV7459 ; one adult, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park, Skukuza camp, 02/vi/2018, Kally Ubisi leg., (Malaise trap), BIOUG43526 -B04 ; one adult, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park, 29/viii/2018, Stolznek, Marius Snyders leg., (Malaise trap), BIOUG44924 -A12 ; one adult, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park, 28/ i/2019, Stolznek, Marius Snyders leg., (Malaise trap), BIOUG46914 -F04 ; one adult, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park, Kingfisherspruit, 05/iii/2019, Eddie Sibuyi leg., (Malaise trap), BIOUG47207 -G05 ; one adult, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park, Olifants, James Belebes leg., 10/i/2019, (Malaise trap), BIOUG47507 -F05 ; one adult, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park, Lower Sabie, Constance Mathoho leg., 12/xii/2018, (Malaise trap), BIOUG47821 -D12 ; one adult, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park, Malelane, Albert Smith leg., 08/xii/2018, (Malaise trap), BIOUG48767 -F09 .

Biology. Peltophorum africanum Sond. ( Fabaceae) (Fig. 79). The hostplant of this species was unknown.

Distribution. South Africa (Mpumalanga, Gauteng, Limpopo), Namibia, Zimbabwe. First record for Limpopo.

DNA barcodes. 17 barcodes forming a single BIN BOLD:ADL9100 (Table S1).

Remarks. Valva and phallus of male genitalia very peculiar (see plate 57, fig. 5 in Vári 1961) show no affinity with the other species of this genus.