Eridachtha phaeocrossis Meyrick, 1937

Park, Kyu-Tek, Minet, Joël, Koo, Jun-Mo & Yu, Tae-Uk, 2024, Review of the Afrotropical members of the genus Eridachtha Meyrick, 1910 (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae: Lecithocerinae), with descriptions of 12 new species, Zootaxa 5468 (2), pp. 275-307 : 282

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5468.2.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11617197
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scientific name	Eridachtha phaeocrossis Meyrick, 1937
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Eridachtha phaeocrossis Meyrick, 1937 View in CoL

Eridachtha phaeocrossis Meyrick, 1937: 96 View in CoL . TL: Transvaal, South Africa. [TMSA].

Atrichozancla phaeocrossis View in CoL ; Janse 1954: 369; Park et al. 2021: 356.

Material examined. South Africa: 1♂ ( holotype, type no. 571), Mpumalanga, Pilgrims Rest , Skea, xii [19]20, Coll. Janse, in TMSA. Paratypes 3♂: Type nos. 572 and 573, gen. slide no. 3737, in TMSA, NHMUK .

Diagnosis. Wingspan 13.0–14.0 mm. The head, antenna, labial palpus are straw yellow but the forewing ground colour is buffy brown. This species is characterized by the forewing vein R 3, which is separated from R 4+5 (R 4 stalked with R 5 from beyond 2/3), the roughly scaled 2 nd segment of the labial palpus (with tufts above and below), and the 3 rd segment which is longer than the 2 nd segment, needle-like, nearly straight.

Male genitalia. See Janse (1954: Pl. 152, fig. 5; Pl. 157, fig. 6). Janse (1954) noted that the male genitalia resemble those of E. cosymbota Meyrick but differ from the latter by the aedeagus which possesses a pair of small, triangular processes on the upper side near the apex.

Female unknown.

Distribution. South Africa ( Mpumalanga).