Vietteilus vigens (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)

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FAMILY	Pterophoridae
SUBFAMILY	Pterophorinae
GENUS	Vietteilus
SPECIES	vigens
AUTHOR	(Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Oxyptilus vigens F. & R.
TYPE LOCALITY	[New Zealand], "Nova Seelandia [ex errore].
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Holotype ♂, BMNH.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Felder C., Felder R. & Rogenhofer A. F. 1865-1875. Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band. Abtheilung 2, Heft 4, Lepidoptera. Atlas der Heterocera. - — 2(4):1-20, pls 1-140.
PAGINATION	15; pl. 140, fig. 49

Species pictures

Synonyms

NAME	AUTHOR	STATUS
africae	(Walsingham, 1881)	Synonym of species
maligna	(Meyrick, 1913)	Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	Katanga	Bigot L. 1969. Les Lépidoptères Pterophoridae du musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, à Tervuren. - Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines 79(1-2):165-206.	188 (as maligna)
Kenya		Gielis C. 2011. Notes on some African Pterophoridae, with description of new species (Lepidoptera). - Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonese 49:33-63.	46
Liberia		Ustjuzhanin P. Y., Kovtunovich V. N. & Sáfián Sz. 2017. New data on the Pterophoridae fauna of Liberia (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae). - Zootaxa 4247(2):194-200.	195
Malawi		Kovtunovich V. N., Ustjuzhanin P. Y. & Murphy R. J. 2014. Plume moths of Malawi (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae). - Zootaxa 3847(4):451-494.	461
Rwanda		Gielis C. 2011. Notes on some African Pterophoridae, with description of new species (Lepidoptera). - Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonese 49:33-63.	46
South Africa	KwaZulu-Natal	Walsingham Thomas de Grey 1881. On the Tortricidae, Tineidae and Pterophoridae of South Africa. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1881(2):219-288, pls 10-13.	279 (as africae)
South Africa	Eastern Cape	Taylor J. S. 1957b. Notes on Lepidoptera in the eastern Cape Province (Part IV). - Journal of the entomological Society of Southern Africa 20(2):315-332.	329 (as africae)
Tanzania			ZMUC

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Rosaceae	Rubus rigidus	South Africa	Taylor J. S. 1957b. Notes on Lepidoptera in the eastern Cape Province (Part IV). - Journal of the entomological Society of Southern Africa 20(2):315-332.	329 (as africae)