New Combinations In Neotropical Archipini And Atteriini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Tortricinae), With The Description Of A New Genus
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Austin, Kyhl A.
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Dombroskie, Jason J.
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Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington
2020
2020-02-29
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10.4289/0013-8797.122.1.1In
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Sisurcana clivigera
(Meyrick),
new
combination
Cacoecia clivigera
Meyrick, 1932: 253
. “
Archips
”
clivigera
:
Powell et al. 1995: 148
(new combination).
[
Archipini
unplaced]
clivigera
:
Brown 2005: 123
.
Type material.—
Cacoecia clivigera
Meyrick, 1932
:
Holotype
,
♀
:
PERU
:
S. Peru
ob.,
Madre de Dios
,
1000 m
[photograph examined; Razowski 2010: fig. 53]. Genitalia slide #4354 [figured examined;
Razowski 1964
: fig. 12] (
NHMV
).
Discussion.—The
holotype
of
Cacoecia clivigera
Meyrick, 1932
is identical in wing pattern and female genitalia to what
Razowski and Wojtusiak (2010a
,
2010b
) identified as the female of
Sisurcana topina
Razowski and Pelz, 2004
.
Sisurcana topina
was described from a single male, with the female unknown. In two subsequent publications,
Razowski and Wojtusiak (2010a
,
2010b
) described a female atteriine which they claim is the female of
S. topina
. However, sufficient justification was not given to support this association.
Razowski and Wojtusiak (2010a)
mention twelve specimens of
S. topina
from four different localities in
Peru
, including at least one female which they describe and figure, but they do not mention the sexes of any other specimens examined or how the sexually dimorphic sexes were associated.
Razowski and Wojtusiak (2010b)
mention a series of four females and one male of
S. topina
reared from larvae in
Ecuador
, but did not mention that they were all found at separate localities and were found feeding on different hostplants (see
Brown et al. 2019
). They claim they were “from the same place,” but only include the coordinates of the biological research station where they were brought back to be reared once found in the field. Several other species in the same paper are described as new and their
type
localities are given as the research station where they were reared, not where they were originally collected (a disparity of
65 km
in one case). A DNA barcode was taken from a single female specimen, but no males were barcoded, so association of the sexes is not possible.
For these reasons, we believe
Cacoecia clivigera
Meyrick, 1932
is conspecific with the females examined by
Razowski and Wojtusiak (2010a
,
2010b
) but do not find sufficient evidence to associate it with the male of
Sisurcana topina
Razowski and Pelz, 2004
, as claimed by
Razowski and Wojtusiak (2010a
,
2010b
). Thus, we provisionally transfer
C. clivigera
to
Sisurcana
until additional material is available for examination.