Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Mesophleps adustipennis
Polilla de la soja, Soybean webworm moth
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Superfamily
Gelechioidea
Family
Gelechiidae
Genus
Mesophleps
Species
adustipennis
Taxon category: Accepted
Acc. name: Mesophleps palpigera Walsingham, 1891; Syn.: Lathontogenus adustipennis Walsingham, 1897, fide Landry & Roque-Albelo (2010). Syn.: Brachyacma palpigera (Walsingham, 1891), fide Landry & Roque-Albelo (2010). Syn.: ? Lipatia crotalariella Busck, 1910, fide Landry & Roque-Albelo (2010).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Española, Floreana, Isabela, Marchena, Pinzón, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz y Santiago (Landry & Roque-Albelo, 2010), Pinta, Rábida (Roque, 2006).
- Landry, B. Roque-Albelo, L. (2010) The Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera) of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, a taxonomic revision. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 117(4): 697-770.
- Roque-Albelo, L. (2006) Diversity and ecology of the Lepidoptera in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Cardiff University (United Kingdom)
- Roque-Albelo, L. Landry, B. (2016) CDF Checklist of Galapagos Butterflies and Moths Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Ecuador, 32 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Mesophleps adustipennis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=7263. Accessed 1 November 2026.