Phthoropoea pycnosaris (Meyrick, 1932)
| FAMILY | Tineidae |
| SUBFAMILY | Myrmecozelinae |
| GENUS | Phthoropoea |
| SPECIES | pycnosaris |
| AUTHOR | (Meyrick, 1932) |
| ORIGINAL COMBINATION | Polycompsistis pycnosaris, n. sp. |
| TYPE LOCALITY | Uganda, Kampala, bred iv from larva feeding on old cotton seed, leg. H. Hargreaves. |
| GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES | / |
| TYPE SPECIMEN(S) | Holotype ♂, BMNH. |
| STATUS | Species |
| PUBLICATION | Meyrick E. 1932a. Exotic Microlepidoptera 4. - — 4(7-11):193-352. |
| PAGINATION | 325 |
Synonyms
| NAME | AUTHOR | STATUS |
| coniographa | (Meyrick, 1936) | Synonym of species |
Species Distribution
| COUNTRY | PROVINCE/STATE | PUBLICATION | PAGE |
| Tanzania | 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. | 3 | |
| Uganda | Meyrick E. 1932a. Exotic Microlepidoptera 4. - — 4(7-11):193-352. | 325 |
Host Plants
| FAMILY | SPECIES | COUNTRY | PUBLICATION | PAGE |
| Malvaceae | Gossypium sp. | Uganda | 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. | 3 |
| Malvaceae | Gossypium sp. | Tanzania | Meyrick E. 1936b. Exotic Microlepidoptera 5. - — 5(1-2):1-64. | 55 |
* In the seeds.
