Dragmatucha Meyrick, 1908

Park, Kyu-Tek, Yu, Tae-Uk & Karisch, Timm, 2022, The family Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) from Ivory Coast (Republic of Côte d’Ivoire), with descriptions of nine new species, Zootaxa 5162 (4), pp. 357-377 : 369

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5162.4.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6810512
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scientific name	Dragmatucha Meyrick, 1908
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Genus Dragmatucha Meyrick, 1908 View in CoL (SubfamilyTorodorinae)

Type species: Dragmatucha proaula Meyrick, 1908 . Type locality: South Africa .

The genus Dragmatucha Meyrick is another Afrotropical genus of the subfamily Torodorinae with 13 known species ( Park et al. 2020b). Recently Park & Karisch (2021) described additional one species from Bioko Island ( Equatorial Guinea). The genus is characterized by the forewing venation with M 3 coincident with CuA 1, and the hind tibia is roughly tufted with long piliform scales.