1. Lebendfotos

1.1. Falter

2. Diagnose

2.1. Nahrung der Raupe

Genaugenommen noch unbekannt! Wakeham-Dawson & Koster (2013: 132) berichten: “It was captured flying around midday at the end of October (beginning of austral summer) on two occasions four years apart: first in lightly grazed grassland, rich in Fachine (Chiliotrichum diffusum, Asteraceae) bushes at Little Chartres (in 2005), and secondly in grassland near fallow vegetable plots and a number of stunted conifer trees at Stanley Growers, Stanley (in 2009).”

(Autor: Jürgen Rodeland)

3. Weitere Informationen

3.1. Typenmaterial

Wakeham-Dawson & Koster (2013: 133): “Holotype ♂, FALKLAND ISLANDS: West Falkland Island, Little Chartres Farm, on Fachine (Chiliotrichum diffusum), 26–28.x.2005, A. & H.J. Wakeham-Dawson; (genitalia preparation: BMNH Microlep. 33427; AWD F442). This specimen is deposited in the NHM, London. Paratypes 2♂♂, FALKLAND ISLANDS: West Falkland Island, Little Chartres Farm, on Fachine, 26–28.x.2005, A. & H.J. Wakeham-Dawson, (genitalia preparation: BMNH Microlep. 33426; AWD F441 (deposited in NHM) and AWD F191 (in AWD Coll.) 2♂♂, FALKLAND ISLANDS: East Falkland Island, Stanley Growers, Stanley, near stunted conifers by fallow plots, 28.x.2009, A. Wakeham-Dawson, AWD F163 (in AWD Coll.) and AWD F164 (deposited in Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis (RMNH), Leiden, The Netherlands).”

3.2. Literatur

• Wakeham-Dawson, A. (2014): Lepidoptera of the Falkland Islands (5): A provisional checklist of the resident Microlepidoptera, with some new records. — Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 150: 243–250.
• Wakeham-Dawson, A. (2022): Lepidoptera of the Falkland Islands (9): Provisional checklist of the Microlepidoptera – update no. 1. — Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 158: 65-66.
• Erstbeschreibung: Wakeham-Dawson, A. & J. C. Koster (2013): Lepidoptera of the Falkland Islands (3): A new and unique species of Momphidae. — Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 149: 129-135.