Phthorimaea operculella ( Zeller, 1873 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 35

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C46C-FFFB-62F6-FE94FDA8994A
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Phthorimaea operculella ( Zeller, 1873 )
status

Treatment

Phthorimaea operculella ( Zeller, 1873) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Potato tuber moth. SYNONYM(S): Gelechia terrella Walker, 1864b View in CoL ; Gelechia piscipellis Zeller, 1873 View in CoL , Gelechia solanella Boisduval, 1874 , Gelechia tabacella Ragonot, 1879 View in CoL ; Gelechia sedata Butler, 1880 View in CoL . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Burundi, Cabo Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Oman, Réunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena View in CoL , Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Brassica oleracea View in CoL L.,( Brassicaceae View in CoL ), Eugenia sp.(Myrtaceae) , Coffea sp. (Rubiaceae) , Datura sp. , Capsicum sp. , Solanum tuberosum L. View in CoL Solanum americanum View in CoL L., Nicotiana tabacum L. (Solanaceae) View in CoL , Typha sp. (Typhaceae) , Vaccinium sp. (Ericaceae) . SOURCES: Cruickshank & Ahmed 1973; De Prins & De Prins 2022.

Genus Scrobipalpa Janse, 1951 View in CoL

References

Copyright notice

No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Gelechiidae
Genus	Phthorimaea

Phthorimaea operculella ( Zeller, 1873 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023

2023

Scrobipalpa

Janse 1951

1951

Gelechia sedata

Butler 1880

1880

Gelechia tabacella

Ragonot 1879

1879

Gelechia solanella

Boisduval 1874

1874

Gelechia piscipellis

Zeller 1873

1873

Gelechia terrella

Walker 1864

1864

Brassicaceae

G.T.Burnett 1835

1835

Specimens

Downloads & Links

Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF

Version History

Contribution History