Acridotarsa melipecta ( Meyrick, 1915 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 27-28

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15196093
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C454-FFC2-62F6-F8A8FD6B9A8A
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Acridotarsa melipecta ( Meyrick, 1915 )
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Acridotarsa melipecta ( Meyrick, 1915) View in CoL

COMMON NAME(S): Fungus moth or Tineid moth.

SYNONYM(S): Plastopolypus divisus Silvestri, 1920 ; Plastopolypus integer Silvestri, 1920 ; Latypica comprehensa Meyrick, 1921 ; Emmetoeca melicosma Meyrick, 1921 ; Passalactis tentatrix Meyrick, 1935b .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Solwezi, in Northwestern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Gozmány 1967a –c.