Review of the genus Tricerophora Janse, 1958 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) with description of six new species
Author
Bidzilya, Oleksiy V.
Institute for Evolutionary Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 37 Academician Lebedev str., 03143, Kiev, Ukraine
olexbid@gmail.com
Author
Mey, Wolfram
Museum fuer Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute at Humboldt Universitaet, Invalidenstrasse 43, D- 10115, Berlin, Germany
text
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift
2018
2018-06-12
65
1
81
98
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.65.25747
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.65.25747
1860-1324-1-81
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02A8A58952E45A03A5B82D880838FA8A
1293071
Tricerophora sp. A
Material.
1 ♂
, [
RSA
]
Wylies Poort
,
3 m
, North,
16.vi.1954
(
Janse
) (gen. slide 331/14,
O. Bidzilya
) (TMSA)
Notes.
The male genitalia of this single specimen (Fig.
23
) differ significantly from the other species of
Tricerophora
. However, taking into account the extreme similarity in habitus among this species (Fig.
12
),
T. commaculata
and
T. pundamilia
sp. n. we can not rule out that this specimen might be the opposite sex of one of the following species (see also remarks to
T. commaculata
). Therefore we refrain from naming the species to avoid confusion in future.