Center for Systematic Entomology

New species and new combinations in Afrotropical Eucosmocydia Diakonoff, 1988 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae)

LepidopteraTortricidaeOlethreutinae

  • John W. Brown

    Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA

  • Józef Razowski

    Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Systematic Zoology Sławkowska 17, Krakow, Poland

  • Leif Aarvik

    Natural History Museum, University of Oslo P.O. Box 1172, Blindern, NO-0318 Oslo, Norway

  • Alicia E. Timm

    Department of Agricultural Biology, Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80521-1177, USA

  • Robert S. Copeland

    International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology P.O. Box 30772, Nairobi, Kenya

ZooBank
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AE18CA26-20E8-48D3-ABD0-22A0D9891065
Keywords
Barcodes, genitalia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sapindaceae, Sierra Leone, South Africa, species groups

Abstract

Eight new species of Eucosmocydia Diakonoff are described and illustrated from the Afrotropical region: E. pappeana Brown and Razowski, new species (TL: Kenya); E. deinbolliana Brown and Razowski, new species (TL: Kenya); E. ugandensis Aarvik, new species (TL: Uganda); E. lecaniodiscana Brown and Razowski, new species (TL: Kenya); E. nigeriana Brown and Razowski, new species (TL: Nigeria); E. pan¬coviana Brown and Razowski, new species (TL: Kenya); E. kirimiriana Brown and Razowski, new species (TL: Kenya); and E. macabensis Brown and Razowski, new species (TL: Mauritius). Three additional species are transferred to the genus: E. hymenosa (Razowski, 2013), new combination (TL: Nigeria); E. chlorobathra (Meyrick, 1911), new combination (TL: Seychelles); and E. trigonoptila (Meyrick, 1921), new combination (TL: Mozambique). We also transfer to the genus E. catamochla (Meyrick, 1932), new combination (TL: Indonesia), the first species recorded outside the Afrotropical region. We recognize two species groups in Eucosmocydia, and this contribution focuses on the oedipus Diakonoff, 1988 group (n = 13 species), the males of which are characterized by a unique flattened lobe from the base of the hindwing. Six species from Kenya were reared exclusively from native fruit of Sapindaceae; E. mixographa (Meyrick) was formerly reported from Fabaceae and Euphorbiaceae.

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