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 Ectropina 1. Forewing with apical fascia reduced to a short strigula, more or less arched; median fascia not interrupted (see pl. 5, figs. 2-4 in Vári 1961 )........................................................................................ 2 - Forewing with apical fascia long and thin, straight; median fascia interrupted in the middle ( Fig. 5 ).. spirostachydis sp. nov. 2. Forewing unicoloured greyish-fuscous between the yellow fasciae (see pl. 5, fig. 3 in Vári 1961 )................ citricula - Forewing with ferruginous-brown fasciae between and beyond the yellow ones.................................... 3 3. Phallus sinuate; valva longer than broad (see pl. 54, fig. 2 in Vári 1961 )................................ sclerochitoni - Phallus strongly curved in the middle; valva shorter than broad (see pl. 54, fig. 1 in Vári 1961 )................... ligata