Mesophleps palpigera: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gelechiidae
- Genus
- Mesophleps
- Species
- Mesophleps palpigera
- Scientific Name
- Mesophleps palpigera
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Mesophleps palpigera
Mesophleps palpigera is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Niger, Nigeria, Zaire, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Madagascar and South Africa. Records from outside of Africa are based on misidentifications.
The wingspan is 9–15.5 mm.
The larvae feed on Bauhinia, Parkinsonia aculeata, Acacia, Albizia altissimum, Albizia lebbeck, Cajanus cajan, Crotalaria retusa, Lonchocarpus cyanescens, Millettia zechiana, Pericopsis laxiflora, Tephrosia bracteolata.
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Sibling Taxa
- Mesophleps acutunca
- Mesophleps adustipennis
- Mesophleps albilinella
- Mesophleps apentheta
- Mesophleps argonota
- Mesophleps aspina
- Mesophleps bifidella
- Mesophleps catericta
- Mesophleps chloranthes
- Mesophleps coffeae
- Mesophleps corsicella
- Mesophleps crocina
- Mesophleps cycnobathra
- Mesophleps epiochra
- Mesophleps geodes
- Mesophleps gigantella
- Mesophleps ioloncha
- Mesophleps lala
- Mesophleps macrosemus
- Mesophleps meliphanes
- Mesophleps mylicotis
- Mesophleps nairobiensis
- Mesophleps ochracella
- Mesophleps ochroloma
- Mesophleps oxycedrella
- Mesophleps palpigera
- Mesophleps parvella
- Mesophleps safranella
- Mesophleps silacella
- Mesophleps sublutiana
- Mesophleps tabellata
- Mesophleps tephrastis
- Mesophleps tetrachroa
- Mesophleps trichombra
- Mesophleps trinotella
- Mesophleps truncatella
- Mesophleps undulatella
- Mesophleps ungella
- Mesophleps unguella