Alucita tesserata (Meyrick, 1918)

FAMILY	Alucitidae
SUBFAMILY	Alucitinae
GENUS	Alucita
SPECIES	tesserata
AUTHOR	(Meyrick, 1918)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Orneodes tesserata n. sp.
TYPE LOCALITY	[South Africa, Gauteng], Transvaal, Pretoria, xi, leg. A. J. T. Janse.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	Latitude: -25°44'44" Longitude: 28°11'18"
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Holotype ♂, TMSA.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Meyrick E. 1918a. Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera. - Annals of the Transvaal Museum 6(2):7-59.
PAGINATION	34-35

Species pictures

Synonyms

NAME	AUTHOR	STATUS
brachyzona	(Meyrick, 1920)	Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	Katanga	Ustjuzhanin P. Y., Kovtunovich V. N. & Streltzov A. N. 2020b. New species of many-plumed moth (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae) from the Democratic Republic of Congo. - Russian Entomological Journal 29(2):199-202.	200
Malawi		Ustjuzhanin P. Y. & Kovtunovich V. N. 2016a. The Alucitidae (Lepidoptera) of Malawi with descriptions of five new species. - Zootaxa 4126(4):533-547.	539
South Africa	Gauteng	Meyrick E. 1918a. Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera. - Annals of the Transvaal Museum 6(2):7-59.	35
South Africa	KwaZulu-Natal	Ustjuzhanin P. Y. & Kovtunovich V. N. 2017. Many-plumed moths of the republic of South Africa (Lepidoptera, Alucitidae). - Ukrainian Journal of Ecology 7(4):640-643.	642
South Africa	Free State	Meyrick E. 1920b. Exotic Microlepidoptera 2. - — 2(10-12):289-384.	293 (as brachyzona)
South Africa	Northern Cape	Ustjuzhanin P. Y. & Kovtunovich V. N. 2017. Many-plumed moths of the republic of South Africa (Lepidoptera, Alucitidae). - Ukrainian Journal of Ecology 7(4):640-643.	642
Zimbabwe		Pinhey E. C. G. 1975. Moths of southern Africa. Descriptions and colour illustrations of 1183 species. - — :i-iv, 1-273, pls 1-63.	41

Host Plants

Unknown