Revision of Holarctic Teleiodini (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)
Author
Lee, Sangmi
Author
Brown, Richard L.
text
Zootaxa
2008
1818
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.182949
834831a3-c0b8-44fa-b357-c14c05822909
1175-5326
182949
Recurvaria
Haworth
Recurvaria
Haworth, 1828
: 547
.
Type
species:
Tinea nanella
[
Denis and Schiffermüller], 1775
, by subsequent designation (
Walsingham 1910
).
Lita
Kollar, 1832
: 95
.
Type
species:
Tinea nanella
[
Denis and Schiffermüller], 1775
, by subsequent designation (
Nye and Fletcher 1991
).
Telea
Stephens, 1834
: 244
. Preoccupied by
Telea
Hübner (1819)
.
Aphanaula
Meyrick, 1895
: 579.
Type
species:
Phalaena leucatella
Clerck, 1759
, by subsequent designation (
Walsingham 1910
).
Hinnebergia
Spuler, 1910
: 356.
Type
species:
Tinea nanella
[
Denis and Schiffermüller], 1775
, by monotypy.
Microlechia
Turati, 1924
: 162
.
Type
species:
Microlechia chretieni
Turati, 1924
by monotypy.
Description.
Imago (
Fig. 57
). Labial palpus with third segment as long as second (
Fig. 19
). Antenna longer than half forewing length. Clypeus with ventral margin rounded. Ocellus present. Posterior area of sitophore with four campaniform sensilla in symmetrical trapezoid pattern with posterior pair closer together than anterior pair; anterior area with 4 or 8 campaniform sensilla. Forewing (length/width ratio 4.2) with tufts of raised scales, with pterostigma; R5 and M1 stalked to near apex, M2 and M3 connate, CuA1 longer than CuA2 and closer to M3 than to CuA2; median fascia transverse or directed from base of costa toward posterior margin. Hindwing (length/width ratio 4.1) with R5 and M1 connate, M3 and CuA1 connate; males of some species with off-white hair pencil at base of anal area. Male abdominal sternum VIII broad, with slightly to broadly emarginate mesial margin; tergum VIII much smaller than sternum VIII.
Male genitalia: uncus as wide as long, widest near apex, shorter than gnathos; gnathos with ventral part hook shaped, stout, shorter than that in species of
Agnippe
; costal part of valva as narrow as that in species of
Parastenolechia
, flagellate, with bulbous base; saccular part of valva absent; saccus not developed; tegumen basal width/length ratio 0.4; vinculum with mesial process directed posteriorly; phallus straight, without cornuti.
Female genitalia: apophyses anteriores about
2 x
length of abdominal segment VIII; antrum not developed; ductus bursae membranous; signum subtrapezoidal with serrate margins.
Larva. Length
6 to 10 mm
; head and divided prothoracic shield black; prolegs often with a fuscous annulus, crochets in a complete circle, unevenly biordinal (
Keifer 1928
;
Meyrick 1895
;
Stainton 1865
).
Pupa. Maxillary palpi separated from genae; frons lacking a tubercle; frontoclypeal suture convex; labrum rounded; prothoracic legs adjacent to oculi; apices of metathoracic legs small, their caudal part subequal in width to antennae; abdominal segment VII not margined caudally by setae (
Keifer 1928
;
Patoèka and Turcáni 2005
).
Diagnosis.
Species of
Recurvaria
resemble those of
Coleotechnites
in color, pattern, and size, but
Recurvaria
can be differentiated by having veins M2 and M3 connate in the forewing, M2 and M3 separate in the hindwing, and bilaterally symmetrical male genitalia.
Hosts.
Aceraceae
:
Acer
sp. (
R. leucatella
).
Betulaceae
:
Betula
sp. (
R. nanella
,
R. leucatella
).
Corylaceae
:
Corylus
L. (
R. nanella
).
Oleaceae
:
Fraxinus
L. (
R. leucatella
).
Rhamnaceae
:
Ceanothus
spp. (
R. consimilis
,
R. francisca
).
Rosaceae
:
Prunus
spp. (
R. leucatella
,
R. nanella
,
R. thomeriella
),
Pyrus
spp. (
R. nanella
,
R. leucatella
),
Amelanchier ovalis
Med.
(
R. nanella
,
R. leucatella
),
Chaenomeles
sp. (
R. nanella
),
Cotoneaster
sp. (
R. nanella
),
Crataegus
spp. (
R. leucatella
,
R. nanella
),
Cydonia
sp. (
R. nanella
),
Malus
spp. (
R. leucatella
,
R. nanella
),
Sorbus
spp. (
R. leucatella
,
R. nanella
). (
Bland 2002
;
De Benedictis
et al.
1990
;
Chrétien 1901
;
Emmet 1988
;
Forbes 1923
;
Huemer 1988
;
Huemer and Karsholt 1999
;
Keifer 1930
;
Robinson
et al.
2002
).
Diversity and distribution.
Recurvaria
includes 11 species occurring in eastern North
America
, Europe, and Asia with greatest diversity in the Nearctic Region (
Braun 1930
;
Fletcher 1929
;
Forbes 1923
;
Fracker 1915
; Hauder 1913;
Heinemann 1870
;
Hering 1932
;
Hodges 1965
;
Huemer and Karsholt 1999
; Kuznetzov 1979;
Meyrick 1925
,
1928
;
Patoèka 1987
;
Snellen 1882
;
Spuler 1910
;
Stainton 1870
).