Species Unplaced chersochlora (Meyrick, 1922)

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• Phthorimaea chersochlora Meyrick, E. 1922. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia, 1910-1913, 27, Microlepidoptera. Arkiv för Zoologi 14: 1-13 [3].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ♂, WA, Kimberley.

General References

Edwards, E.D. 1996. Gelechiidae. pp. 107-114 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [112] (Note #168: Phthorimaea chersochlora (Meyrick, 1922) was described from a very poor specimen from the Kimberleys, WA. It was placed in Sphagiocrates Meyrick by Povoloy (1977). Sphagiocrates Meyrick was included in the Gelechiidae by Nye & Fletcher (1991) but in the Oecophoridae (Xyloryctinae) by Robinson et al. (1994). P. chersochlora (Meyrick) is definitely in the Gelechiidae and unrelated to Sphagiocrates lusoria (Meyrick) the type species of the genus. The species was correctly moved out of Phthorimaea Meyrick by Povolny (1977))

Nye, I.W.B. & Fletcher, D.S. 1991. Microlepidoptera. The Generic Names of Moths of the World. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 6 xxix+368 pp., frontispiece.

Povolný, D. 1977. On the type-specimens of some Australian species of the genus Phthorimaea sensu Meyrick, 1925 (Lepidoptera). Acta Zoologica Hungarica 23: 187-198

Robinson, G.S., Tuck, K.R. & Shaffer, M. 1994. A Field Guide to the Smaller Moths of South-East Asia. Kuala Lumpur : Malaysian Nature Society 309 pp. (incl. 32 pls).

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