Conopomorpha antimacha Meyrick, 1907

Prins, Jurate De, Hartley, Diana, Sruoga, Virginijus, Nicholls, James, Wallace, Jesse & Zwick, Andreas, 2025, Diversity of Australian Ornixolinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) with taxonomic and nomenclatural acts within the related taxa (Acrocercopinae and Gracillariinae) based on the evidence of museomics, bionomics, and mitogenomics, Zootaxa 5616 (1), pp. 1-340 : 23-25

Conopomorpha antimacha Meyrick, 1907

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“ C.[onopomorpha] antimacha , n. sp. ”—Meyrick, E., 1907. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 58–59. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6383137

Conopomorpha antimacha — Turner 1940: 62; Nielsen & Kumata 1996: 48; De Prins & De Prins 2005: 157.

Type locality: [ Australia], West [ern] Australia, Geraldton .

Type specimen: Holotype ♂, BMNH(E) 1405928, in NHMUK (London).

Specimen examined: Holotype ♂: [1] Geraldton/West[ern] Australia / 04 November 1906; [2] Meyrick Coll./B.M. 1938-290; [3] antimacha Meyr. ; [4] Holotype; [5] Left wing +/Abdomen/missing; [6] Acrocercops / antimacha /1/1 Meyr./E. Meyrick det./in Meyrick Coll. [7] BMNH(E) 1405928.

Morphological diagnostic characterisation: Length of forewing ca. 3.0 mm ( Fig. 10).

Head: covered with rough white scales; light ochreous prolonged patch extends from vertex to occiput; occiput with two small bunches of radially directed piliform scales. Labial palpus, long, ca. 2× longer than the diameter of the eye, porrect, with upraised apices, a few dark ochreous scales are present on apical part of palpomere II. Antenna almost as long as forewing, dark ochreous, slightly ringed, since each flagellomere is light ochreous at basal half and dark ochreous at apical half. Pedicel slightly thicker than the following flagellomere, unicoloured ochreous; scape short but broad, dark ochreous.

Thorax: ochreous, tegula concolourous with thorax, ochreous. Forewing pattern reminds Lithocolletinae : Phyllonorycter ; ground colour dark ochreous with four oblique costal strigulae and three dorsal strigulae that do not reach the midline of forewing; costal strigulae are edged with dark brown scales from basal side, while dorsal strigulae are edged from apical side. Apical spot is not perceptible, apical line is only present on tornus. Fringe light ochreous. Hindwing narrow, with sharp apex, light ochreous with yellow shading; fringe dirty white with light ochreous basal part. Legs white, mid leg tarsus light ochreous; hindleg dirty white, slender, without covering of spiniform scales as it is the case in other Ornixolinae genera; hind tarsus is also unicolourous white with slight darker shading on the apex of tarsus III and terminal tarsi IV–V.

Abdomen: No data.

Male genitalia: No data.

Female genitalia: No data.

BOLD data: No data.

GenBank data: No data.

Mitogenomic data: No data.

Bionomics in Australia: No data.

Distribution: Australia: Western Australia ( Meyrick 1907: 59).