''Anatrachyntis coriacella'' is a
moth
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in the family
Cosmopterigidae. It was described by
Snellen in 1901, and is known from
Indonesia
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(Java), India,
Malaysia
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,
Mauritius
Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It incl ...
, United States and Australia.
The larvae feed on
Malvaceae
Malvaceae, or the mallows, is a family of flowering plants estimated to contain 244 genera with 4225 known species. Well-known members of economic importance include okra, cotton, cacao and durian. There are also some genera containing familiar ...
(''
Gossypium sp.'').
[Meyrick, E. 1930c. ''Microlepidoptera of Mauritius'' - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 78(2):309–323]
References
Moths described in 1901
Anatrachyntis
Moths of Mauritius
Moths of Asia
Moths of North America
Moths of Australia
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