Antarches tessmanni

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.

Antarches tessmanni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Antarches
Species:
A. tessmanni
Binomial name
Antarches tessmanni
(Strand, 1912)[1]
Synonyms
  • Megalorhipida tessmanni
  • Oxyptilus tessmanni Strand, 1913
  • Oxyptilus aquessei Bigot, 1964
  • Antarches aguessei (Bigot, 1964)
  • Antarches luqueti Gibeaux, 1994[2]

The larvae feed on Cinchona pubescens (Rubiaceae).


References
  1. "Antarches tessmanni". Afro Moths. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
  2. "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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