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Elachistidae 59a1357 – 1077.4   Perittia metaxea (Kaila, 1995)

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Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: • Mendesia metaxea Kaila, 1995 Taxonomic Notes: Perittia metaxea (Kaila, 1995), n. sp., J. Lepid. Soc., v. 49, p. 208-222, was formerly in the genus Mendesia, Systematic Entomology. 24: 163.

References

Kaila, L., 1995. A revision of the North American Perittia (=Onceroptila), with first nearctic records of the genus Mendesia (Elachistidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 49(3): 208-222. Pellmyr, O., M. Balcázar-Lara, D.M. Althoff, K.A. Segraves, & J. Leebens-Mack, 2005. Phylogeny and life history evolution of Prodoxus yucca moths (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae). Systematic Entomology, 31(1): 1-20. U.S. National Entomological Collection (USNM) - Holotype ♂ (genitalia)

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