Batrachedra arenosella (Walker, 1864)

FAMILY	Batrachedridae
SUBFAMILY	Batrachedrinae
GENUS	Batrachedra
SPECIES	arenosella
AUTHOR	(Walker, 1864)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Gracilaria [sic] arenosella
TYPE LOCALITY	New Zealand.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Syntypes 3♀, not retrieved (see C. Guillermet 2011c: 254), BMNH.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Walker F. 1864b. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXX.- Tineites. - — 30:i-iv, 837-1096.
PAGINATION	857

Species pictures

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	Equateur	Ghesquière J. 1940a. Lépidoptères Microlépidoptères (première partie). - Annales du Musée du Congo belge, Zoologie [3, Arthropodes] section 2, Catalogues raisonnés Sér. III (II) 7(1):1-120, pls i-v.	77
Mauritius		Bippus M. 2020b. Records of Lepidoptera from the Malagasy region with description of new species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae, Noctuidae, Alucitidae, Choreutidae, Euteliidae, Gelechiidae, Blastobasidae, Pterophoridae, Tonzidae, Tineidae, Praydidae, Cosm..., Batrachedridae). - Phelsuma 28:60-100.	96 (needs confirmation)
Réunion		Guillermet C. 2011c. Les Hétérocères ou papillons de nuit, de l'île de La Réunion. - — 4:1-556, pls 1-13.	254

Notes: Australasia: Australia, Fiji, New Zealand; Oriental: India, Indonesia (Java), Malaysia.

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Palmae	Cocos nucifera	Réunion	Guillermet C. 2011c. Les Hétérocères ou papillons de nuit, de l'île de La Réunion. - — 4:1-556, pls 1-13.	254
Palmae	Cocos plumosa	Congo, DR	Ghesquière J. 1940a. Lépidoptères Microlépidoptères (première partie). - Annales du Musée du Congo belge, Zoologie [3, Arthropodes] section 2, Catalogues raisonnés Sér. III (II) 7(1):1-120, pls i-v.	77

* In the male flowers and the fruit of Cocos plumosea Hook (J. Ghesquière 1940a: 77).