Haploscythris chloraema (Meyrick, 1887)

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FAMILY	Scythrididae
SUBFAMILY	Scythridinae
GENUS	Haploscythris
SPECIES	chloraema
AUTHOR	(Meyrick, 1887)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Butalis chloraema, n. s.
TYPE LOCALITY	South Africa, [Eastern Cape], Grahamstown.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Holotype ♂, BMNH.
STATUS	Species
COMMENT	Transferred to Haploscythris by Bengtsson (2014: 62).
PUBLICATION	Meyrick E. 1887b. Descriptions of some exotic Micro-Lepidoptera. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1887(3):269–280.
PAGINATION	279

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Synonyms

NAME	AUTHOR	STATUS
obstans	(Meyrick, 1928)	Synonym of species
paulianella	Viette, 1956	Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Botswana		Bengtsson B. A. 2014. The Afrotropical Scythrididae. - Esperiana Memoir 7:1–361.	63
Madagascar		Viette P. 1956h. Tineoidea (s.l.) nouveaux ou peu connus de Madagascar (Lepidoptera). - Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia generale e agraria della R. Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura de Portici 33:460–472.	463 (as paulianella)
Namibia		Bengtsson B. A. 2014. The Afrotropical Scythrididae. - Esperiana Memoir 7:1–361.	63
South Africa	Eastern Cape	Meyrick E. 1887b. Descriptions of some exotic Micro-Lepidoptera. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1887(3):269–280.	279
South Africa	KwaZulu-Natal	Meyrick E. 1928. Exotic Microlepidoptera 3. - — 3(13–15):385–480.	413 (as obstans)
South Africa	Northern Cape		New record (TMSA)

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