Idiothauma africanum Walsingham, 1897

FAMILY	Tortricidae
SUBFAMILY	Chlidanotinae
GENUS	Idiothauma
SPECIES	africanum
AUTHOR	Walsingham, 1897
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Idiothauma africanum, sp. n.
TYPE LOCALITY	[Gabon], French Congo, Valley of the Ogooué River, Kangwé, leg. A. C. Good.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	3 Syntypes ♂, ♀, BMNH.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Walsingham Thomas de Grey 1897a. Western Equatorial African Micro-Lepidoptera. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1897(1):33-67, pls 2-3.
PAGINATION	50-51; pl. 2, fig.9

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Cameroon		Razowski J. 1995a. Catalogue of the species of Tortricidae (Lepidoptera). Part III: Afrotropical Chlidanotinae and Tortricinae: Phricanthini, Cochylini and Tortricini. - Acta zoologica cracoviensia 38(2):183-193.	184
Equatorial Guinea		Strand E. 1913d. Zoologische Ergebnisse der Expedition des Herrn G. Tessmann nach Süd-Kamerun und Spanisch-Guinea. Lepidoptera IV. (Verschiedene Familien). - Archiv für Naturgeschichte 78 (A) (1912)(12):30-84, pls 1-2.	81
Gabon		Walsingham Thomas de Grey 1897a. Western Equatorial African Micro-Lepidoptera. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1897(1):33-67, pls 2-3.	51
Kenya		Brown J. W., Copeland R. S., Aarvik L., Miller S. M., Rosati S. E. & Luke Q. 2014. Host records for fruit-feeding Afrotropical Tortricidae (Lepidoptera). - African Entomology 22(2):343-376.	351

Notes: The identity of the Kenyan specimens needs confirmation (Brown et al. 2014: 351).

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Myrsinaceae	Maesa lanceolata	Kenya	Brown J. W., Copeland R. S., Aarvik L., Miller S. M., Rosati S. E. & Luke Q. 2014. Host records for fruit-feeding Afrotropical Tortricidae (Lepidoptera). - African Entomology 22(2):343-376.	351