Desmia incomposita (Bethune-Baker, 1909)
| FAMILY | Crambidae |
| SUBFAMILY | Spilomelinae |
| GENUS | Desmia |
| SPECIES | incomposita |
| AUTHOR | (Bethune-Baker, 1909) |
| ORIGINAL COMBINATION | Glyphodes incomposita, sp. n. |
| TYPE LOCALITY | [Democratic Republic of Congo, Province Orientale, Ituri], Congo Free State, Makala, iv, leg. Powell-Cotton. |
| GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES | / |
| TYPE SPECIMEN(S) | Syntypes ♂, BMNH, CMPB. |
| STATUS | Species |
| PUBLICATION | Bethune-Baker G. T. 1909. Descriptions of new African Lepidoptera. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 3:422-437. |
| PAGINATION |
437
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Species pictures
Synonyms
| NAME | AUTHOR | STATUS |
| horaria | Meyrick, 1937 | Synonym of species |
Species Distribution
| COUNTRY | PROVINCE/STATE | PUBLICATION | PAGE |
| Congo, the Democratic Republic of the | Orientale | Bethune-Baker G. T. 1909. Descriptions of new African Lepidoptera. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 3:422-437. | 437 |
| Congo, the Democratic Republic of the | Equateur | Meyrick E. 1937a. Exotic Microlepidoptera 5. - — 5(3-5):65-160. | 103 (as horaria) |
| Gambia | R. Goff | ||
| Liberia | Poltavsky A. N., Sáfián Sz., Simonics G., Kravchenko V. D. & Müller G. C. 2019. The Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) fauna in the Liberian Nimba Mountains, West Africa, at the end of the dry season. - Israel Journal of Entomology 49(1):11-40. | 21 | |
| Nigeria | Bethune-Baker G. T. 1909. Descriptions of new African Lepidoptera. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 3:422-437. | 437 |
Host Plants
| FAMILY | SPECIES | COUNTRY | PUBLICATION | PAGE |
| Moraceae | Antiaris africana | Congo, DR | Ghesquière J. 1942a. Lépidoptères Microlépidoptères (deuxième partie). - Annales du Musée du Congo belge, Zoologie [3, Arthropodes] section 2, Catalogues raisonnés (3) 7:121-240. | 122 (as horaria) |
