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
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4671.2.2
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1175-5326
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Atroposia oenotherana
(
Riley, 1881
)
,
new combination
Figs. 3, 4
,
20
,
34
Conchylis oenotherana
Riley, 1881: 316
.
Phalonia oenotherana
:
McDunnough 1939: 60
.
[Incertae sedis]
oenotherana
:
Powell 1983: 42
;
Razowski 1997: 137
.
[
Cochylini
New Genus 1]
oenotherana
:
Brown 2005: 207
;
Metzler & Brown 2014: 278
.
Atroposia oenotherana
is one of the more easily recognized Cochylina in the Nearctic fauna, with the basal half of the forewing yellow-tan and the distal half pinkish red with a variably developed, yellow-tan spot. The species was redescribed in detail by
Razowski (1997: 137)
. The genitalia are highly divergent from those of other Cochylina, and on the basis of the distinct facies and unusual genitalia,
oenotherana
is placed in a monotypic genus.
Atroposia oenotherana
is widely distributed from Nova Scotia to Manitoba, south to Florida and Texas. Adults have been collected mostly in July and August, with fewer records in May, June, and September, suggesting a single generation in the north and two generations in the southern portions of its range. Larvae are tip-tiers in the flowers of
Oenothera
species (
Onagraceae
) (
Riley 1881
;
Godfrey
et al
. 1987
; many reared specimens in USNM);
Oenothera biennis
(L.) has been recorded as the larval host in
Georgia
(USNM).
The illustration of the male genitalia of
A. oenotherana
(from Vineland,
Ontario
,
Canada
) in
Razowski (1997
: figs. 123) deviates in several features (e.g., the shape of the median process of the transtilla, the shape of the juxta, the curvature of the phallus) from those of
Fig. 3
(from Padre Island National Seashore,
Texas
,
USA
). Because barcodes of
A. oenotherana
are represented by two BINs in BOLD (
Brown
et al
. 2019
), it is possible that two species are concealed under this name, and these differences in genital morphology reflect two different species. Alternatively, the male genitalia shown in
Fig. 3
and in
Razowski (1997)
may merely represent individual variation and/or artifacts of slide mounting.
Syntype
♀
,
USA
,
Missouri
, r.f.
Oenothera
, M. Murtfeld
(
USNM
).
Riley (1881)
referred to four specimens in his original description, but I have been able to locate only a single female
syntype
.