Exploring the diversity of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) in South Africa: host plants, distribution, and DNA barcoding analysis, with the description of nine new species Author Triberti, Paolo Zoology Department, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Lungadige Porta Vittoria 9, 37129 Verona, Italy; Author Staude, Hermann 0000-0002-2549-4372 Author Sharp, Ian Author Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos 0000-0003-2278-2368 IRBI, UMR 7261, CNRS-University of Tours, Tours, France carlos.lopezvaamonde@inrae.fr text Zootaxa 2024 2024-10-24 5529 1 1 51 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5529.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5529.1.1 1175-5326 14021754 0613682E-532B-482F-A498-6714A01F5DE5 Key to the species of Afrotropical Phodoryctis 1. Forewings with four, more or less distinct, oblique, very fine, whitish lines, usually reaching inner margin (see pl. 17, fig. 8 in Vári 1961 )............................................................................... thrypticosema - Forewings with 3 or 4 costal spots, never lines reaching inner margin............................................ 2 2. Apex of valva with a small incision...................................................................... 3 - Apex of valva rounded without incision................................................... tephrosiella sp. nov . 3. Saccus very short, rounded (see pl. 62, fig. 8 in Vári 1961 ).......................................... dolichophila - Saccus about 1/3 of the length of valva, blunt apically (see fig. 11 in Kumata et al. 1988b ).................... caerulea