Alucita seychellensis (Fletcher T. B., 1910)

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FAMILY Alucitidae
SUBFAMILY Alucitinae
GENUS Alucita
SPECIES seychellensis
AUTHOR(Fletcher T. B., 1910)
ORIGINAL COMBINATIONOrneodes seychellensis, sp. n.
TYPE LOCALITYSeychelles, Mahé, Cascade Estate, 800 ft, ix.1908, leg. H. Scott.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES /
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) Holotype ♂, BMNH; 6 Paratypes ♂, ♀, BMNH.
STATUS Species
PUBLICATION Fletcher T. B. 1910b. The Orneodidae and Pterophoridae of the Seychelles Expedition. (The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905). - Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (2 Zool.) 13(1):397-403.
PAGINATION 397-308, fig. 1 Bhl

Species pictures

Synonyms

NAME AUTHOR STATUS
granata (Meyrick, 1921) Synonym of species
imbrifera (Meyrick, 1929) Synonym of species
loxoschista (Meyrick, 1931) Synonym of species
megaphimus (Hering, 1917) Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY PROVINCE/STATE PUBLICATION PAGE
Cameroon   Hering E. M. 1917. Sieben neue Arten der Gattung Orneodes. - Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 78:190-195. 192 (as megaphimus)
Central African Republic   Meyrick E. 1929d. Exotic Microlepidoptera 3. - — 3(16-17):481-544. 538 (as imbrifera)
Malawi   Ustjuzhanin P. Y. & Kovtunovich V. N. 2016a. The Alucitidae (Lepidoptera) of Malawi with descriptions of five new species. - Zootaxa 4126(4):533-547. 537
Mozambique   Meyrick E. 1921b. Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera. - Annals of the Transvaal Museum 8(2):49-148. 108 (as granata)
Seychelles Mahé Fletcher T. B. 1910b. The Orneodidae and Pterophoridae of the Seychelles Expedition. (The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905). - Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (2 Zool.) 13(1):397-403. 398
Seychelles Silhouette Fletcher T. B. 1910b. The Orneodidae and Pterophoridae of the Seychelles Expedition. (The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905). - Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (2 Zool.) 13(1):397-403. 398
South Africa KwaZulu-Natal Ustjuzhanin P. Y. & Kovtunovich V. N. 2016c. Two new species of the many-plumed moth genus Alucita Linnaeus (Lepidoptera, Alucitidae) from Madagascar. - Entomological Review 96(8):1115-1118. 642
Tanzania   Ustjuzhanin P. Y., Kovtunovich V. N. & Ustjuzhanina A. K. 2018. New species of many-plumed moths (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae) from Tanzania. - Zootaxa 4438(1):167-175. 169
Uganda   Meyrick E. 1931a. Exotic Microlepidoptera 4. - — 4(2-6):33-192. 86 (as loxoschista)

Host Plants

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