Praeacedes atomosella (Walker, 1863)

FAMILY	Tineidae
SUBFAMILY	Tineinae
GENUS	Praeacedes
SPECIES	atomosella
AUTHOR	(Walker, 1863)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Tinea atomosella
TYPE LOCALITY	Sierra Leone, leg. J. Foxcroft.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Holotype ♀ [not ♂ as stated in the original description], genitalia slide L. Gozmány 10271♀, BMNH.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Walker F. 1863c. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXVIII.- Tortricites & Tineites. - — 28:i-iv, 287-561.
PAGINATION	476

Species pictures

Synonyms

NAME	AUTHOR	STATUS
decui	Căpuşe & Georgescu, 1977	Synonym of species
deluccae	Amsel, 1954	Synonym of species
despecta	(Meyrick, 1919)	Synonym of species
malgassica	(Gozmány, 1970)	Synonym of species
seminolella	(Beutenmüller, 1889)	Synonym of species
thecophora	(Walsingham, 1908)	Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Gambia		Gozmány L. A. 1968b. Some Tineid moths of the Ethiopian Region in the collections of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). II. - Acta Zoologica Hungarica 14(3-4):301-334.	302
Madagascar		Gozmány L. A. 1970a. Three new Tineid species (Lepidoptera) from Madagascar and Rhodesia. - Acta Zoologica Hungarica 16(1-2):105-108.	105 (as malgassica)
Mauritius		Meyrick E. 1930c. Microlepidoptera of Mauritius. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 78(2):309-323.	322 (as despecta)
Réunion		Bippus M. 2016c. Praeacedes atomosella (Walker, 1863) and Phereoeca praecox Gozmány & Vári, 1973 - two case-bearing moths new to the fauna of La Réunion (Lepidoptera: Tineidae). - Beiträge zur Entomologie 66(2):159-163.	159
Sierra Leone		Walker F. 1863c. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXVIII.- Tortricites & Tineites. - — 28:i-iv, 287-561.	476

Notes: Pantropical. Australasia: Australia, Rapa, Solomon Islands; Nearctic: U.S.A.; Neotropical: Bermuda, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela; Oriental: India, Malaysia; Palaearctic: Canary Islands, Cyprus, Malta.

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Undefined	Undefined Decaying animal matter		Bippus M. 2016c. Praeacedes atomosella (Walker, 1863) and Phereoeca praecox Gozmány & Vári, 1973 - two case-bearing moths new to the fauna of La Réunion (Lepidoptera: Tineidae). - Beiträge zur Entomologie 66(2):159-163.	160

Species Parasitoids

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION
Braconidae	Apanteles carpatus	Hawaii	Zimmerman E. C. 1978. Microlepidoptera, part I and II. - In: Insects of Hawaii. - — 9:i-xviii, 1-1903, pls 1-8.
Braconidae	Apanteles minatchy	Réunion	Bippus M. 2016c. Praeacedes atomosella (Walker, 1863) and Phereoeca praecox Gozmány & Vári, 1973 - two case-bearing moths new to the fauna of La Réunion (Lepidoptera: Tineidae). - Beiträge zur Entomologie 66(2):159-163.