Revision of Holarctic Teleiodini (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)
Author
Lee, Sangmi
Author
Brown, Richard L.
text
Zootaxa
2008
1818
1
55
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.182949
834831a3-c0b8-44fa-b357-c14c05822909
1175-5326
182949
Argyrolacia
Keifer
Argyrolacia
Keifer, 1936
: 243
, pl. 4, figs 1a–f.
Type
species:
Argyrolacia bifida
Keifer, 1936
, by original designation.
Description.
Imago (Fig. 66). Labial palpus third segment slender and acute apically, subequal in length with second. Antenna more than half forewing length. Clypeus with ventral margin rounded. Ocellus absent. Posterior area of sitophore with four campaniform sensilla in trapezoid pattern; posterior pair closer together than anterior pair; anterior area with four campaniform sensilla. Forewing (length/width ratio 4.9) with tufts of raised scales, without pterostigma; M1 and R5 stalked, M2 and M3 separate, CuA1 present, CuA2 absent; median fascia transverse or directed from base of costa toward posterior margin. Hindwing (length/width ratio 5.7) with R5, M1, M2 and M3 separate, CuA1 and M3 separate.
Male genitalia (
Fig. 33
): uncus slender, deeply bifid to base; gnathos absent; costal part of valva well developed, with internal duct and bulbous base; saccular part of valva absent; tegumen basal width/length ratio 0.9; phallus attached to vinculum, curved at base and diagonally truncate apically, without cornuti.
Female genitalia (
Fig. 48
): antrum funnel shaped posteriorly, not widened anteriorly; apophyses anteriores about
2 x
length of abdominal segment VIII; signum roughly diamond shaped with serrate margins, with projecting flanges from obtuse corners.
Larva. Undescribed.
Pupa. Undescribed.
Diagnosis.
Argyrolacia
was established primarily on the presence of a deeply bifid uncus, a character state also shared with
Xenolechia
and
Altenia
.
Argyrolacia
differs from these two genera by lacking an ocellus and having the forewing with M1 stalked with R5 and CuA2 absent, the hindwing with M1 absent, and the female antrum sclerotized instead of membranous.
Hosts.
Rhamnaceae
:
Ceanothus
sp. (
Keifer 1936
;
Robinson
et al.
2002
).
Diversity and distribution.
The one species of
Argyrolacia
occurs in the western
United States
.