New species and new combinations in Afrotropical Eucosmocydia Diakonoff, 1988 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae)
Author
Brown, John W.
Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History Washington, DC 20013 - 7012, USA
Author
Razowski, Józef
Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Systematic Zoology Sławkowska 17, Krakow, Poland
Author
Aarvik, Leif
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo P. O. Box 1172, Blindern, NO- 0318 Oslo, Norway
Author
Timm, Alicia E.
Department of Agricultural Biology, Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80521 - 1177, USA
Author
Copeland, Robert S.
International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology P. O. Box 30772, Nairobi, Kenya
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Insecta Mundi
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Eucosmocydia oedipus
Diakonoff, 1988
Eucosmocydia oedipus
Diakonoff 1988: 326
, fig. 17, 32;
Brown 2005: 335
.
Remarks.
Eucosmocydia oedipus
Diakonoff, 1988
is the type species of
Eucosmocydia
. Although we have not examined the
holotype
, its identity is unambiguous from the original description. According to
Diakonoff (1988)
,
E. oedipus
is a broad-winged species superficially resembling species of the genus
Grapholita
Treitschke. The
“forewing is purplish-fuscous, closely and finely striated with pale cinerous (tip of scales).” Wingspan
10 mm
. “Hind tibia glossy dark grey, a thick pencil of hair-scales dark grey-bronze, posterior tarsus glossy golden.” “Hind wing dorsal lobe grey, black-tipped.” The male genitalia (
Diakonoff 1988
: fig. 17) are typical of several species of
Eucosmocydia
, differing from those of the species treated in the present contribution by an even higher tegumen. The valva is slender with a long cucullus, similar to that of
E. kirimiriana
(
Fig. 27
). Although
Razowski and Trematerra (2008)
reported
E. oedipus
from
Mozambique
, their illustration of the male genitalia does not agree with Diakonoff ’s (1988) figure. The cucullus of the valva in the specimen from
Mozambique
(
Razowski and Trematerra 2008
, fig. III, 10) is subrectangular, whereas the shape of the valva in the
holotype
of
E
.
oedipus
is more rounded and apically tapered. Presently,
E. oedipus
is known only from the
holotype
from
Madagascar
. DNAbarcode sequences and the life history are unknown.
Type.
Holotype
♂
,
Central
Madagascar
, massif
de l’Andringitra
, plateau
Soaindrana
,
2070 m
,
15 Jan 1958
,
P. Griveaud
, genitalia slide 8461 (
MNHN
).