Description of Ptychocroca, a new genus from Chile and Argentina, with comments on the Bonagota Razowski group of genera (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Euliini)
Author
Brown, John W.
Author
Razowski, Józef
text
Zootaxa
2003
303
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.156574
09c16756-690f-4b64-855f-b7194ef3b3c3
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156574
APOTOMOPS
Powell and Obraztsov, 1986
Apotomops
Powell and Obraztsov
, in
Powell 1986
: 396
;
Brown, 1989
: 320
;
Brown and Powell, 1991
: 4
;
Brown, 2000b
: 108
;
Razowski and Becker, 2000
: 75
.
Type
species:
Olethreutes wellingtoniana
Kearfott, 1907
, by original designation.
Diagnosis.
Apotomops
is superficially and genitalically most similar to
Bonagota
. Although the relationship between them is not entirely resolved, the two appear to represent monophyletic sister groups. Under present concepts,
Apotomops
can be defined by the reduced socii that are mostly fused to the tegumen, the development of teeth along the dorsal edge of the sacculus, and the reduced cilia and rounded aspect of the male antennal flagellomeres.
Powell (1986)
included two species in the genus:
A. wellingtoniana
(Kearfott)
and
A. texasana
(Blanchard and Knudson)
. We add
A. carchicola
(Razowski and Becker)
,
new combination
,
A. sololana
(Razowski)
,
new combination
,
A. boliviana
,
new species
, and
A. spomotopa
,
new species
. Although all species of
Apotomops
and
Bonagota
are similar in facies,
A. wellingtoniana
and
A. texasana
are most similar to each other superficially, while
A. carchicola
and
A. boliviana
are more similar to species of
Bonagota
.
Distribution.
Apotomops
is one of very few genera in
Euliini
that occurs north of
Mexico
(e.g.,
Eulia
Linnaeus
,
Dorithia
Powell
,
Anopina
Obraztsov
).
Apotomops wellingtoniana
occurs across
Canada
from British
Columbia
(
type
locality) to Nova
Scotia
(
USNM
), and south through the Rocky Mountains to the Mexican states of Durango (
UCB
), Nuevo Leon, Distrito Federal, and Veracruz (
Razowski and Becker 2000
). In eastern North
America
, it ranges as far south as the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee (
USNM
). It is possible that specimens from
Mexico
are not conspecific with northern
A. wellingtoniana
, but we could find no characters to convincingly separate the two.
Apotomops texasana
is known only from Texas;
A. carchicola
and
A. sololana
are known only from
Ecuador
;
A. boliviana
is known only from
Bolivia
; and
A. spomotopa
is known only from
Peru
.