Biology:Spulerina lochmaea
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Short description: Species of moth
| Spulerina lochmaea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gracillariidae |
| Genus: | Spulerina |
| Species: | S. lochmaea
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| Binomial name | |
| Spulerina lochmaea Vári, 1961[1]
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Spulerina lochmaea is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa.[2]
The larvae feed on Mangifera indica.[3], they mine the leaves of their host plant.
S. lochmea was first described from a female specimen found at Mariepskop in South Africa. The moths have white heads and brown-grey antennae with white and pale grey undersides. Their abdomens are also brown-grey above and white below; the thorax is "whitish". Their hindwings and cilia are also grey-brown but their forewings are ochre brown with black-edged white layers of tissue. The holotype was 8 mm long.[4]
Further reading
- Davis, Don R., World Catalogue of Insects, Volume 6, Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera), doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2006)099[0186:WCOIVG2.0.CO;2]
References
- ↑ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W.. "Spulerina lochmaea Vári, 1961". https://www.gracillariidae.net/species_by_code/SPULLOCH.
- ↑ Vári, L. (1961). "South African Lepidoptera. Vol. I. Lithocolletidae.". Transvaal Museum Memoirs 12: 187. https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA0000012_448.
- ↑ "Spulerina lochmaea Vári, 1961". https://www.gracillariidae.net/species/748.
- ↑ Vári, L. (1961). "Descriptions of genera and species 9". Transvaal Museum Memoirs 12 (1). https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA0000012_375.
Wikidata ☰ Q260255 entry
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