Antarches tessmanni

Antarches tessmanni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Antarches
Species:
A. tessmanni
Binomial name
Antarches tessmanni
(Strand, 1913)[1][2]
Synonyms[3]
  • Oxyptilus tessmanni Strand, 1913
  • Megalorhipida tessmanni (Strand, 1913)
  • Oxyptilus aquessei Bigot, 1964
  • Antarches aguessei (Bigot, 1964)
  • Antarches luqueti Gibeaux, 1994

Antarches tessmanni is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is known from Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Réunion, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen and Zimbabwe.

The larvae feed on Cinchona pubescens (Rubiaceae).

References

  1. ↑ Hobern, Donald (5 May 2023). "Family Pterophoridae". Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  2. ↑ Ustjuzhanin, Petr; Kovtunovich, Vasily; Delabye, Sylvain; Maicher, Vincent; Sáfián, Szabolcs; Fokam, Eric; Tropek, Robert (11 March 2025). "Plume moths (Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae) of a recently discovered lepidopteran diversity hotspot in the Mount Cameroon area, with descriptions of four new species". ZooKeys. pp. 145–168. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
  3. ↑ "On the fauna of the plume moths (Lepidoptera, Pterophoridae) of KwaZulu Natal province (South-African Republic)". E-library. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
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