New genera, new species, and new combinations in New World Cochylina (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Tortricinae)
Author
Brown, John W.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-09-17
4671
2
195
222
journal article
25519
10.11646/zootaxa.4671.2.2
978ec4b3-8d0e-4f47-8084-610b34b96759
1175-5326
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Mimcochylis fulvotinctana
(
Walsingham, 1884
)
,
new combination
Figs. 13
,
28
,
43
Conchylis fulvotinctana
Walsingham, 1884: 132
.
Phalonia fulvotinctana
:
McDunnough 1939: 60
.
“Incertae sedis” [unplaced
Cochylini
]
fulvotinctana
:
Razowski 1964: 384
;
Powell 1983: 42
;
Razowski 1994: 359
;
Brown 2005: 209
;
Metzler & Brown 2014: 278
.
Cochylis fulvotinctana
:
Powell
et al
. 1995: 142
.
Mimcochylis planola
Razowski, 1985: 61
,
new synonym
.
The generic assignment of
Conchylis fulvotinctana
has been elusive since its description.
Walsingham (1884)
assigned it to the catch-all genus
Conchylis
(an unjustified emendation of
Cochylis
);
McDunnough (1939)
placed it in
Phalonia
;
Razowski (1964)
treated it as “incertae sedis), and the latter assignment (unplaced) was followed by
Powell (1983)
,
Brown (2005)
, and
Metzler and Brown (2014)
. Because the
type
(NHMUK) lacks its abdomen, the generic assignment has remained enigmatic. However, I recently discovered two series of specimens, one from
Arizona
(USNM) and one from
Baja California
(SDNHM), that are superficially indistinguishable from the
type
of
fulvotinctana
(
Fig. 13
). The male genitalia (
Fig. 28
) of the specimens match precisely those illustrated by
Razowski (1985
: fig. 1) for
Mimcochylis planola
Razowski, 1985
. Based on these observations, I propose the synonymy of
fulvotinctana
and
planola
, and transfer
fulvotinctana
to
Mimcochylis
.
According to the original description,
Walsingham (1884)
had two specimens from
Arizona
.
Razowski (1994: 384)
referred to the only one he examined as “
lectotype
” and indicated “without abdomen,” and I interpret this as the designation of that specimen as the
lectotype
; the specimen bears a
holotype
label (NHMUK 010921407).