Parectopa leucographa Turner, 1940

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 : 214-216

Parectopa leucographa Turner, 1940

( Figs 443, 451,452, 455)

“ Parectopa leucographa n. sp. ”—Turner, A.J., 1940. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 64(1): 64. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41572680

Parectopa leucographa — Nielsen & Kumata 1996: 48; De Prins & De Prins 2005: 21.

Type locality: [ Australia], Queensland, Bunya Mountains , 3500 ft.

Type specimen: Holotype ♀, ANIC Acc. no 31 036702, in ANIC (Canberra).

Specimens examined: Holotype ♀ ( Fig. 443) [labels verbatim]: [1] ‘ Holotype / Parectopa / leucographa Turn. ’; [2] ‘ ANIC Database No/31 036702’; [3] ‘Bunya Mts Q.[ueensland] / 3500 ft. 06 March 1931 ’; [4]’ Parectopa TYPE/ leucographa Turn’, DNA sample (forewing) NULT023569 (not successful), ANIC Acc. no 31 036702, in ANIC (Canberra).

Morphological diagnostic characterisation. Wingspan 7.1 mm; length of the forewing 3.3 mm ( Fig. 443).

Head ( Figs 451, 452): vertex ochreous, occiput ochreous, with two tufts of short piliform scales of lighter shading, directed posteriad, labial palpus slender, as long as ca. 2× diameter of the eye, with sharp apex, directed straight forward, antenna approximately as long as forewing dark brown; scape concolourous with the rest of the flagellomeres.

Thorax ( Figs 443, 455): ochreous, tegula dark brown. Forewing ground colour dark ochreous, five short strigulae are present on the costal margin, the basal part of dorsal margin is marked with dirty white stripe and some irregular whitish spots at the sub-apical part of dorsum; apical spot not perceptible; the apical line absent, fringe line not perceptible. Legs rather slender, tarsus of mid legs intermixed of ochreous with dark ochreous.

Abdomen: No data.

BOLD data: No data.

GenBank data: No data.

Mitogenomic data: No data.

Bionomics: No data.

Distribution: Australia: Queensland ( Turner 1940: 64).

Note: The placement of this species in Parectopa needs to be confirmed since the specimen is in bad condition, without abdomen and the DNA analysis was not successful.