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Acridotarsa comprehensa (Meyrick, 1921)

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Higher taxa: Tineidae (family)/  Tineinae (subfamily)/  Acridotarsa (genus)/ 
Status:Synonym, the accepted name is Acridotarsa melipecta
Authorship:(Meyrick, 1921)
Citation:Latypica comprehensa n. sp.
Original genus:Latypica
Publication:Meyrick E. 1921b. Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera.
Journal:Annals of the Transvaal Museum
Volume:8
Issue:2
Pagination:131
URL:https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50414652
Taxonomic note:

A junior subjective synonym of Paraclystis melipecta Meyrick, 1915; synonymized by L. A. Gozmány & L. Vári (1973: 36).

Gozmány L. A. & Vári L. 1973. The Tineidae of the Ethiopian Region.
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Acridotarsa comprehensa (Meyrick, 1921) Holotype ♂ TMSA Holotype ♂, abdomen missing (see A. J. T. Janse 1968: 55), wing slide 3623, TMSA. Mozambique [Mozambique], Portuguese East Africa, Magude, x.1918, leg. C. J. Swierstra. Janse A. J. T. 1968. On the types of South African Microlepidoptera described by the late Edward Meyrick and preserved in the Transvaal Museum, Pretoria and the South African Museum, Cape Town. Vol. 1. Tineidae. page 131
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