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Statherotis leucaspis

Description

419. Statherotis leucaspis (Meyrick, 1902)

Eucosma leucaspis Meyrick, 1902; Fauna Geogr. Maldive Laccadive Arch. 1: 126.

TL: Maldives, Minikoi Island [now in Lakshadweep].

Distribution: India (Uttarakhand); Bali; Indonesia (Java); Lakshadweep Islands; Malaysia; Myanmar; Republic of Maldives; Seychelles; Sri Lanka; Thailand (Robinson et al. 1994; Pinkaew 2007).

Hosts: Larvae are reported to feed on Malva sylvestris (Malvaceae) and Allophylus cobbe, Dimocarpus longan, Litchi chinensis, Nephelium lappaceum, Schleichera oleosa (Sapindaceae) (Fletcher 1932; Robinson et al. 2001).

Illustrations: Adult and genitalia (Clarke 1958: 524; Diakonoff 1973: 602, 604).

Notes

Published as part of Pathania, Prakash C., Das, Apurva & Chandra, Kailash, 2020, Catalogue of Tortricidae Latreille, 1802 (Lepidoptera: Tortricoidea) of India, pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 4757 (1) on page 73, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4757.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3756053

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Tortricidae
Genus
Statherotis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Meyrick
Species
leucaspis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Statherotis leucaspis (Meyrick, 1902) sec. Pathania, Das & Chandra, 2020

References

  • Robinson, G. S., Tuck, K. R., Shaffer, M. & Cook, K. (1994) A field guide to the smaller moths of South-East Asia. The Natural History Museum, London and Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur, 241 pp.
  • Pinkaew, N. (2007) New records and known species of the tribe Olethreutini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae) from Thong Pha Phum National Park, Thailand. Thailand Natural History Museum Journal, 2 (1), 1 - 18.
  • Fletcher, T. B. (1932) Life-Histories of Indian Microlepidoptera (Second Series). Alucitidae (Pterophoriadae), Tortricina and Gelechiadae. The Imperial Council of Agricultural Research, India. Science Monogram 2. Government of India Central Publication Branch, Calcutta, 58 pp.
  • Robinson, G. S., Ackery, P. R., Kitching, I. J., Beccaloni, G. W. & Hernandez, L. M. (2001) Hostplants of the moth and butterfly caterpillars of the Oriental Region. The Natural History Museum, London, 722 pp.
  • Clarke, J. F. G. (1958) Catalogue of the type specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Mus. (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick. Vol. 3. Trustees of the British Museum, London, 600 pp.
  • Diakonoff, A. (1973) The South Asiatic Olethreutini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Zoologische Monographieen van het Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, 1, 1 - 699.