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Species of moth From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stomopteryx splendens is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Otto Staudinger in 1881. It is found in Asia Minor.
Stomopteryx splendens | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gelechiidae |
Genus: | Stomopteryx |
Species: | S. splendens |
Binomial name | |
Stomopteryx splendens (Staudinger, 1881) | |
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The species was originally described by Otto Staudinger in 1881, based on a specimen sent by Johann Manisadjian,[1] collected in Amasya.[2] He also identified specimens collected by Theobald Johannes Krüper on Mount Olympus as belonging to the same species.[1] Staudinger had applied the name to another specimen in 1880, but without describing the species.[3]
The species was transferred to Stormopteryx by Edward Meyrick in 1925.[4] In 1957, László A. Gozmány re-examined Staudinger's specimens. He found that the 1880 specimen was a female which belonged to Stormopteryx, while the 1881 specimen from Johann, described as a male by Staudinger, was in fact a female Xystophora, and accordingly transferred A. splendens to that genus.[2]
It occurs in Turkey (Asia Minor), and possibly also in Greece if Krüper's collections do belong to the species.[2]
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