Deuterocopus socotranus Rebel, 1907

FAMILY	Pterophoridae
SUBFAMILY	Deuterocopinae
GENUS	Deuterocopus
SPECIES	socotranus
AUTHOR	Rebel, 1907
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Deuterocopus socotranus n. sp.
TYPE LOCALITY	[Yemen], W Socotra, ii.1899, leg. O. Simony.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Lectotype ♂, designated by E. Arenberger (1986b: 103), genitalia slide 10658♂, NHMW; Paralectotypes 1♂, 1♀, NHMW.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Rebel H. 1907a. Lepidopteren aus Südarabien und von der Insel Sokotra. - Denkschriften der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 71(2):31-130, pl. 1.
PAGINATION	115-117, fig. 37

Species pictures

Synonyms

NAME	AUTHOR	STATUS
deltoptilus	Meyrick, 1930	Synonym of species
henrioti	Bigot & Boireau, 2006	Synonym of species
triannulatus	Meyrick, 1913	Synonym of species
viticola	Meyrick, 1911	Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the		Gielis C. 2009b. On a collection of Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera) from Haut-Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo. - Revue suisse de Zoologie 116(2):223-256.	224 (as deltoptilus)
Côte d'Ivoire		Bigot L. & Boireau P. 2006. Compléments à l'inventoire raisonné des Pterophoridae de la Côte d'Ivoire (5e note). - Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Provence 57:15-17.	16 (as henrioti)
Ghana		Ustjuzhanin P. Y. & Kovtunovich V. N. 2015b. On the fauna of the plume moths of Ghana (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae). - Shilap, Revista de lepidopterología 43(172):577-582.	578
Kenya		Gielis C. 2009b. On a collection of Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera) from Haut-Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo. - Revue suisse de Zoologie 116(2):223-256.	224 (as deltoptilus)
Malawi		Kovtunovich V. N., Ustjuzhanin P. Y. & Murphy R. J. 2014. Plume moths of Malawi (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae). - Zootaxa 3847(4):451-494.	457
Mozambique		Kovtunovich V. N., Ustjuzhanin P. Y. & Murphy R. J. 2014. Plume moths of Malawi (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae). - Zootaxa 3847(4):451-494.	457
Namibia		Arenberger E. 2004. Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera, Pterophoroidea). - In: Mey, Z. (Ed.) The Lepidoptera of the Brandberg Massif in Namibia. - Esperiana Memoir 1:203-208.	205
Nigeria		Arenberger E. & Wojtusiak J. 1996. Pterophoridae aus Nigeria (Insecta, Lepidoptera). - Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft österreichischer Entomologen 48:73-85.	82
Oman		Arenberger E. 1986b. Die Pterophoriden (Lepidoptera) aus der Oman-Ausbeute von T. B. Larsen. - Entomologische Zeitschrift 96(8):102-106.	103
Somalia		Arenberger E. 1999. Die Pterophoridae des Jemen. - Esperiana 7:245-262, pls. 6-7.	251
South Africa	KwaZulu-Natal	Yano K. 1962. Pterophoridae of Chieng Mai, northwestern Thailand. - Nature and Life Southeast Asia 2:101-102.	101
Tanzania			NHMO
Uganda		Meyrick E. 1930a. Exotic Microlepidoptera 3. - — 3(18-20):545-640.	566 (as deltoptilus)
Yemen		Arenberger E. & Wojtusiak J. 1996. Pterophoridae aus Nigeria (Insecta, Lepidoptera). - Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft österreichischer Entomologen 48:73-85.	82
Yemen	Abd al Kuri	Arenberger E. 2009b. Faunistische Angaben über Pterophoridae vom Sokotra Archipel mit der Neubeschreibung von Agdistis haghieri sp. n. (Lepidoptera). - Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft österreichischer Entomologen 61:95-100.	97
Yemen	Socotra	Rebel H. 1907a. Lepidopteren aus Südarabien und von der Insel Sokotra. - Denkschriften der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 71(2):31-130, pl. 1.	115
Zambia		Kovtunovich V. N., Ustjuzhanin P. Y. & Murphy R. J. 2014. Plume moths of Malawi (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae). - Zootaxa 3847(4):451-494.	457
Zimbabwe		Ustjuzhanin P. Y. & Kovtunovich V. N. 2013. On the fauna of plume moths (Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae) of Zimbabwe. - Amurian Zoological Journal 5(2):153-160, pl. 2.	154

Notes: Australasian: Australia, New Guinea, Palau Islands; Oriental: India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand; Palaearctic: Japan (Ryu Kyu).

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Vitaceae	Vitis sp.		Arenberger E. 2004. Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera, Pterophoroidea). - In: Mey, Z. (Ed.) The Lepidoptera of the Brandberg Massif in Namibia. - Esperiana Memoir 1:203-208.	204
Lamiaceae	Vitex buchananii	India	Pathania P. C., Gielis C., Das A. & Chandra K. 2021. Catalogue of superfamily Pterophoroidea Kuznetsov & Stekolnikov (Lepidoptera) of India. - Zootaxa 4915(2):201-236.	204 (as quadrangula)
Vitaceae	Cissus quadrangularis	India	Pathania P. C., Gielis C., Das A. & Chandra K. 2021. Catalogue of superfamily Pterophoroidea Kuznetsov & Stekolnikov (Lepidoptera) of India. - Zootaxa 4915(2):201-236.	204

* On the flowers (see Pathania et al. 2021: 204).