Ascalenia melanogastra (Meyrick, 1918)
FAMILY | Cosmopterigidae |
SUBFAMILY | Chrysopeleiinae |
GENUS | Ascalenia |
SPECIES | melanogastra |
AUTHOR | (Meyrick, 1918) |
ORIGINAL COMBINATION | Cholotis melanogastra n. sp. |
TYPE LOCALITY | [South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal], Zululand, Nkwaleni, 10.i.1916, leg. A. J. T. Janse. |
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES | / |
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) | Holotype ♂, type no 899, genitalia slide 4465, TMSA. |
STATUS | Species |
PUBLICATION | Meyrick E. 1918a. Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera. - Annals of the Transvaal Museum 6(2):7–59. |
PAGINATION | 28 |
Species pictures

Species Distribution
COUNTRY | PROVINCE/STATE | PUBLICATION | PAGE |
Namibia | Sinev S. Yu. 2004. Agonoxenidae, Batrachedridae, Blastobasidae, Chrysopeleiidae, Cosmopterigidae, and Stathmopodidae (Lepidotera: Gelechioidea). – In: Mey, Z. (Ed.) The Lepidoptera of the Brandberg Massif in Namibia. - Esperiana Memoir 1:107–130. | 110 | |
South Africa | KwaZulu-Natal | Meyrick E. 1918a. Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera. - Annals of the Transvaal Museum 6(2):7–59. | 28 |
Host Plants
Unknown