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3. Weitere Informationen
3.1. Andere Kombinationen
- Gelechia leucodoxa Meyrick, 1920 [Originalkombination]
- Melitoxoides leucodoxa (Meyrick, 1920)
3.2. Taxonomie und Faunistik
Meyrick (1920: 283) beschrieb seine "Gelechia leucodoxa" nach 3 Faltern aus Südafrika: "Cape Colony, Capetown, in February and March (Péringuey, Lightfoot) ; three specimens."
Bidzilya et al. (2026: 463) merkten zu Nothris cophias an: "Janse established the genus Melitoxoides Janse, 1958 with Gelechia cophias (Meyrick, 1913) as the type species. [...] Besides G. cophias, Janse placed two other species in Melitoxoides: Gelechia leucodoxa Meyrick, 1920 and Gelechia panaula Meyrick, 1909. The first species was described from a female holotype (abdomen missing) and two paratypes (male and female) from Cape Town. Janse (1958: 30, pl. 4) based the identity of this species on a female from Table Mountain near Cape Town identified by Meyrick as G. leucodoxa. Photographs of female genitalia (Janse 1960: pl. 61, 66) indicate that the species belongs to the genus Schizovalva Janse, 1951: Schizovalva leucodoxa (Meyrick, 1920) comb. nov. Gelechia panaula was transferred to Khoisa Bidzilya & Mey, 2011 (Bidzilya & Mey 2011)."
3.3. Typenmaterial
Bidzilya et al. (2026: 463) notierten: " Holotype: female (abdomen missing), in SAM; paratype: male (abdomen missing), in NHMUK."
(Autor: Erwin Rennwald)
3.4. Literatur
- Bidzilya, O.V., Mey, W., Rajaei, H. & J. Šumpich (2026): A taxonomic revision of the genus Nothris Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) in the Afrotropical region. — Zootaxa 5787 (3): 439–466.
- Erstbeschreibung: Meyrick, E. (1920): 10. - Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera. — Annals of the South African Museum, 17 (4): 273-318. [Digitalisat auf biodiversitylibrary.org]
