Hapsifera lithocentra Meyrick, 1920

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FAMILY Tineidae
SUBFAMILY Hapsiferinae
GENUS Hapsifera
SPECIES lithocentra
AUTHORMeyrick, 1920
ORIGINAL COMBINATIONHapsifera lithocentra, n. sp.
TYPE LOCALITY[Tanzania], East Africa, Mt Kilimandjaro, Himo River, 1000 m, iii.1912, leg. Ch. Alluaud & R. Jeannel.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES /
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) Holotype ♂, genitalia slide P. Viette 3984♂, MNHN (see Viette 1951b: 83).
STATUS Species
COMMENTMisidentified as Hapsifera glebata Meyrick (partim) and Hapsifera ochroptila Meyrick by J. Ghesquière (1940: nos 55, 58) (see L. A. Gozmány 1969c: 69).
PUBLICATION Meyrick E. 1920a. Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale (1911-1912). Résultats Scientifiques. Insectes Lépidoptères II. Microlepidoptera. - — :33-120.
PAGINATION 105

Species Distribution

COUNTRY PROVINCE/STATE PUBLICATION PAGE
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Katanga Gozmány L. A. 1967c. The Tineid moths of the Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium (Lepidoptera: Tineidae). - Annales du Musée du Congo belge, Zoologie [3, Arthropodes] section 2, Catalogues raisonnés 157:1-100. 69
Kenya   Gozmány L. A. & Vári L. 1973. The Tineidae of the Ethiopian Region. - Transvaal Museum Memoir 18:i-vi, 1-238. 166
Tanzania   Meyrick E. 1920a. Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale (1911-1912). Résultats Scientifiques. Insectes Lépidoptères II. Microlepidoptera. - — :33-120. 105

Host Plants

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