Stomopteryx splendens is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Otto Staudinger in 1881. It is found in Asia Minor.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Stomopteryx |
| Species: | S. splendens
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| Binomial name | |
| Stomopteryx splendens (Staudinger, 1881)
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Taxonomy
editThe 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]
Distribution
editIt occurs in Turkey (Asia Minor), and possibly also in Greece if Krüper's collections do belong to the species.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b Staudinger, O. (1881). "Lepidopteren-Fauna Kleinasien's". Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae (in German). 16: 90–91.
- ^ a b c Gozmány, L. A. (1957). "Notes on the generic group Stormopteryx Hein". Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 3: 127–128.
- ^ Staudinger, O. (1879). "Lepidopteren-Fauna Kleinasien's". Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae. 15: 325.
- ^ Wytsman, P., ed. (1925). Genera Insectorum. Vol. 184. Brussels: Louis Desmet-Verteneuil. p. 112.
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