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Figs 4, 12-14, 16, 19-23
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Tineidae" genus="Ereunetis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ereunetis minuscula" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minuscula">Ereunetis minuscula</taxonomicName>
Walsingham, 1897: 155; 1907: 716.-
<bibRefCitation author="Swezey, OH" journalOrPublisher="Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experiment Station Division of Entomology Bulletin" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" pagination="1 - 41" title="The Hawaiian Sugar Cane Bud Moth (Ereunetis flavistriata) with an account of ome allied species and natural enemies." volume="6" year="1909">Swezey 1909</bibRefCitation>
: 12.-
<bibRefCitation author="Busck, A" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" pagination="80 - 81" title="[Note]" volume="13" year="1911">Busck 1911</bibRefCitation>
: 80.-
<bibRefCitation author="Swezey, OH" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society for 1910" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" pagination="153 - 163" title="Insects associated with &quot; Mamake &quot; (Pipturus albidus), a Native Hawaiian Tree." volume="2" year="1912">Swezey 1912</bibRefCitation>
: 155.-
<bibRefCitation author="Walsingham, L (TdG)" journalOrPublisher="London" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" pagination="225 - 392" title="Lepidoptera-Heterocera." volumeTitle="Godman and Salvin, Biologia Centrali-Americana (Zoology) Lepidoptera-Heterocera" year="1914">Walsingham 1914</bibRefCitation>
[1909-1915]: 347.-
<bibRefCitation author="Wolcott, GN" journalOrPublisher="The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Porto Rico" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" pagination="1 - 313" title="Insectae Portoricensis: A Preliminary Annotated Check-list of the Insects of Porto Rico, with Descriptions of Some New Species." volume="7" year="1923">Wolcott 1923</bibRefCitation>
: 205.-
<bibRefCitation author="Swezey, OH" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society for 1928" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" title="The Hosts of Cremastus hymeniae Viereck in Hawaii (Hymenoptera)." volume="7" year="1929">Swezey 1929</bibRefCitation>
: 281.-
<bibRefCitation author="Forbes, WTM" journalOrPublisher="New York Academy of Sciences" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" pagination="1 - 171" title="Scientific Survey of Porto Rico." volume="12" year="1930">Forbes 1930</bibRefCitation>
: 147.-
<bibRefCitation author="Wolcott, GN" journalOrPublisher="The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" pagination="1 - 627" title="Insectae Borinquenses: A revised annotated check-list of the insects of Puerto Rico." volume="20" year="1936">Wolcott 1936</bibRefCitation>
: 501.-
<bibRefCitation author="Swezey, OH" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society for 1939" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" pagination="457 - 458" title="Melittobiopsis ereunetiphila Timberlake, an Efficient Parasite on the Sugar Cane Bud Worm in Hawaii." volume="10" year="1940">Swezey 1940</bibRefCitation>
: 458.-
<bibRefCitation author="Wolcott, GN" journalOrPublisher="The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rica" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" pagination="417 - 748" title="The Insects of Puerto Rico." volume="32" year="1948">Wolcott 1948</bibRefCitation>
: 739.-
<bibRefCitation author="Beardsley, JW" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society for 1960" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" pagination="333 - 366" title="A Review of the Hawaiian Braconidae (Hymenoptera)." volume="17" year="1961">Beardsley 1961</bibRefCitation>
: 354.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Tineidae" genus="Decadarchis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Decadarchis minuscula" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minuscula">Decadarchis minuscula</taxonomicName>
(Walsingham).-
<bibRefCitation author="Meyrick, E" journalOrPublisher="Transactions of the Entomological Society of London" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" pagination="489 - 521" title="The Micro-Lepidoptera of the &quot; St. George &quot; Expedition." url="10.1111/j.1365-2311.1929.tb01417.x" volume="76" year="1929">Meyrick 1929</bibRefCitation>
: 505.-
<bibRefCitation author="Harris, WV" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of Entomological Research" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" pagination="483 - 499" title="Annotated list of Insects Injurious to Native Food Crops in Tanganyika." url="10.1017/S0007485300038943" volume="28" year="1937">Harris 1937</bibRefCitation>
: 486.-
<bibRefCitation author="Ghesquiere, J" journalOrPublisher="Annales du Musee du Congo Belge, Tervueren, (Belgique), C. Zoologie" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" pagination="1 - 120" title="Catalogues raisonnes de la fauna entomologique du Congo Belge: Lepidopteres, Microlepidopteres (primiera partie)." volume="7" year="1940">
<normalizedToken originalValue="Ghesquière">Ghesquiere</normalizedToken>
1940
</bibRefCitation>
: 86.-
<bibRefCitation author="Vesey-Fitzgerald, D" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of Entomological Research" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" pagination="153 - 160" title="Some Insects of Economic Importance in Seychelles." url="10.1017/S0007485300005368" volume="32" year="1941">Vesey-Fitzgerald 1941</bibRefCitation>
: 158.-
<bibRefCitation author="Lepesme, P" journalOrPublisher="Paul Lechevalier, Paris" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" title="Les Insectes de Palmier." year="1947">Lepesme 1947</bibRefCitation>
: 318.-
<bibRefCitation author="Viette, PEL" journalOrPublisher="Pacific Science" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" pagination="315 - 337" title="Catalogue of the Heterocerous Lepidoptera from French Oceania." volume="3" year="1949">Viette 1949</bibRefCitation>
: 316.-
<bibRefCitation author="Swezey, OH" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society for 1941" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" pagination="202 - 216" title="Notes on Food Habits of Lepidoptera in Samoa." volume="11" year="1942">Swezey 1942</bibRefCitation>
: 215.-
<bibRefCitation author="Davis, CJ" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society for 1952" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" pagination="85 - 86" title="New Host and Insect Records from the Island of Hawaii." volume="15" year="1953">Davis 1953</bibRefCitation>
: 85.-
<bibRefCitation author="Swezey, OH" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society for 1951" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" pagination="377 - 378" title="Insect Fauna of a Coconut Tree." volume="14" year="1952">Swezey 1952</bibRefCitation>
: 378.-
<bibRefCitation author="Diakonoff, A" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the United States National Museum" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" pagination="1 - 484" title="Microlepidoptera of the Philippine Islands." url="10.5479/si.03629236.257.1" volume="257" year="1968">Diakonoff 1968</bibRefCitation>
: 265, 308.-
<bibRefCitation author="Clarke, JF" journalOrPublisher="Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" pagination="1 - 282" title="The Lepidoptera of Rapa Island." url="10.5479/si.00810282.56" volume="56" year="1971">Clarke 1971</bibRefCitation>
: 211;
<bibRefCitation author="Clarke, JF" journalOrPublisher="Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" pagination="1 - 485" title="Pyralidae and Microlepidoptera of the Marquesas Archipelago." url="10.5479/si.00810282.416" volume="416" year="1986">1986</bibRefCitation>
: 361.-
<bibRefCitation author="Zimmermann, EC" journalOrPublisher="Insects of Hawaii" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" title="Microlepidoptera, Part 1." volume="9" year="1978">Zimmermann 1978</bibRefCitation>
: 352.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Tineidae" genus="Lepidobregma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lepidobregma minuscula" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minuscula">Lepidobregma minuscula</taxonomicName>
(Walsingham).-
<bibRefCitation author="Zimmermann, EC" journalOrPublisher="Insects of Hawaii" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" title="Microlepidoptera, Part 1." volume="9" year="1978">Zimmermann 1978</bibRefCitation>
: 352.-
<bibRefCitation author="Davis, DR" editor="Hodges, RH" journalOrPublisher="E. W. Classey Ltd. and the Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, London" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" pagination="5 - 7" title="Tineidae." year="1983">Davis 1983</bibRefCitation>
: 5.-
<bibRefCitation author="Robinson, GS" journalOrPublisher="Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" title="Tineid genera of Australia (Lepidoptera)." volume="2" year="1993">Robinson and Nielsen 1993</bibRefCitation>
: 289.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Tineidae" genus="Erechthias" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Erechthias minuscula" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minuscula">Erechthias minuscula</taxonomicName>
(Walsingham).-
<bibRefCitation author="Davis, DR" editor="Heppner, JB" journalOrPublisher="Dr. W. Junk Publ., The Hague, Boston, Lancaster" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" pagination="19 - 24" title="Tineidae." year="1984">Davis 1984</bibRefCitation>
: 21.-
<bibRefCitation author="Robinson, GS" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Natural History" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" pagination="119 - 135" title="Lepidoptera of Ascension island - a review." url="10.1080/00222939000770081" volume="24" year="1990">Robinson and Kirke 1990</bibRefCitation>
: 133.-
<bibRefCitation author="Robinson, GS" journalOrPublisher="Natural History Museum, London" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" title="Biology, distribution and diversity of tineid moths. Southdene Sdn Bhd, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia." year="2009">Robinson 2009</bibRefCitation>
: 20-25, 51, fig. 36.-
<bibRefCitation author="Robinson, GS" journalOrPublisher="Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" title="Tineid genera of Australia (Lepidoptera)." volume="2" year="1993">Robinson and Nielsen 1993</bibRefCitation>
: 295, 310.-
<bibRefCitation author="Heppner, JH" journalOrPublisher="Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" title="Lepidoptera of Florida, Part 1, Introduction and Catalog, Arthropods of Florida and Neichboring Land Areas." year="2003">Heppner 2003</bibRefCitation>
: 236.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Adult</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="4">(Fig. 4). Head: Scales of frons shiny whitish cream, moderately broad with 3-4-dentate apices, flatly appressed to frons with apices directed dorsad; a pair of scale tufts consisting of very slender, elongate scales arising from lower corners of frons. Vertex with a prominent pair of lateral, occipital tufts composed of very elongate, piliform, pale cream scales with minutely bidentate scales. Labial palpus with apical segment mostly smoothly scaled; scales of segment 2 flat, strongly appressed dorsally, shiny white to whitish cream; venter of segment 2 with a dense brush of long, slender, erect, whitish (rarely suffused with dark brown) scales with minutely bidentate apices, and a lateral series of ~ 13-16 long, whitish bristles sometimes with dark apices. Antenna ~ 2/3 as long as forewing; scales smoothly appressed, uniformly pale cream except for scales with dark brown apices along anterior edge and sometimes venter of flagellum; scape mostly pale cream irrorated with dark brown scales along anterior edge; pectin well developed, consisting of a longitudinal row of 12-14 long dark setae; scales of scape and pedicel moderately broad; flagellum with a single row of more slender scales completely encircling each segment; short cilia usually not evident but often visible between scales.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
Figures 4-11. Adults and larval cases 4 ♂,
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, (forewing length 4 mm), Florida, USA 5 ♂,
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Tineidae" genus="Erechthias" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Erechthias ascensionae" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ascensionae">Erechthias ascensionae</taxonomicName>
, (forewing length 6.8 mm), Ascension Island 6 ♂,
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Tineidae" genus="Erechthias" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Erechthias dracaenura" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dracaenura">Erechthias dracaenura</taxonomicName>
(forewing length 8 mm),
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Tomé">Tome</normalizedToken>
7, 8 ♂,
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Tineidae" genus="Erechthias" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Erechthias grayi" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="grayi">Erechthias grayi</taxonomicName>
(forewing length 1.7 mm), Ascension Island 9 (dorsal) 10 (lateral) Larval cases
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Tineidae" genus="Erechthias" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Erechthias" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Erechthias</taxonomicName>
sp. grayi? (length 4.2 mm), Ascension Island 11 ♂,
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(forewing length 6 mm), St.
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Rocks.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
Figures 12-15. Adult head structure. 12-14
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12 (anterior view) 13 (lateral view) 14 (maxilla) 15
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Tineidae" genus="Erechthias" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Erechthias grayi" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="grayi">Erechthias grayi</taxonomicName>
(anterior view).
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
Figures 16-18. Wing venation 16
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17
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Tineidae" genus="Erechthias" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Erechthias ascensionae" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ascensionae">Erechthias ascensionae</taxonomicName>
18
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Tineidae" genus="Erechthias" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Erechthias grayi" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="grayi">Erechthias grayi</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="5">
<pageBreakToken pageId="4" pageNumber="5" start="start">Thorax</pageBreakToken>
: Forewing length 3.5-4.0 mm (wing apex not extended) - 5.0 mm (wing apex fully extended). Dorsum and tegula pale cream, usually with suffusion of light brown medially; apices of light brown scales often with dark brown apices giving a mottle appearance to dorsum; thorax whitish cream ventrally. Forewing predominantly pale whitish cream, variably irrorated or streaked with medium to dark brown scales; a medium to dark brown, variously interrupted streak usually extending from wing base almost to tornus (completely lacking in some specimens); costal margin often with small concentrations of dark brown scales present near base of forewing, near distal 2/3, distal 4/5 and at apex; those markings near apex sometimes forming short striae; a pale whitish cream patch of scales along margin between spot at distal 4/5 and apex; apex of forewing bent abruptly dorsad; fringe white to pale cream, variably banded at apex with 1-2 slender bands of dark brown scales; most of ventral surfaces of fore and hindwings (except for whitish cream fringes) medium to dark brown. Hindwing uniformly pale grayish brown; fringe mostly concolorous except for 2-3 narrow bands of dark brown scales around apex. Frenulum a single long spine in male and female. Fore and midlegs mostly pale to dark brown dorsally and pale cream ventrally with pale to dark brown banding on tibia and tarsomeres; hind leg generally paler, almost entirely pale cream in color.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Abdomen: Mostly pale golden brown dorsally, whitish cream ventrally. Eighth segment without coremata.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
<pageBreakToken pageId="5" pageNumber="6" start="start">Male</pageBreakToken>
genitalia (Figs 19-21): Segment 10 mostly membranous, moderately sclerotized to form 2 elongate lateral lobes, with caudal margin superficially bifid. Tegumen a relatively narrow dorsal ring. Vinculum slender, narrowly V-shaped, elongate, ~ 0.8
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
the length of valva. Valva simple; cucullus broad with broadly rounded apex; costal margin densely setose, with setae concentrated near base of costa and less so at apex of valva. Juxta well developed as an elongate U-shaped pouch. Aedeagus a slender, simple cylinder, ~ 1.6
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
length of valva; vesica lined with numerous, minute spicules and with a single large, apical cornutus, sometimes closely accompanied with a shorter cornutus ~ half the length of the larger one.
</paragraph>
<caption pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
Figures 19-23.
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, genitalia 19 Male, ventral view 20 Valva, mesal view 21 Aedeagus, ventral view 22 Female, ventral view 23 Detail of signum in Fig. 22.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
Female genitalia (Fig. 22, 23): Eighth sternite weakly sclerotized; ostium opening near anterior margin, with a pair of moderately short setae on either side of ostium. Antrum reduced, triangular; length ~ equal to maximum width. Ductus bursae very slender and elongate; length ~ 1.7
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
that of posterior apophyses, ductus gradually enlarging to relatively small, ovate corpus bursae; walls of corpus bursae membranous except for a very small, elongate, triangular signum; distal, more slender half of signum projecting beyond wall of corpus bursae.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Lectotype.</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="7" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
♂ (present designation), WEST INDIES: Type H.T.; St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, 17 March 1894, Hedemann 7084; BM genitalia slide No. 4177;
<pageBreakToken pageId="6" pageNumber="7" start="start">Walsingham</pageBreakToken>
Collection 1910-427;
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Wlsm., P.Z.S. p. 155 (1897), Type ♂; (BMNH).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">ASCENSION ISLAND: Green Mountain: 4 ♂, 17-26 June 1988, C.M.StG Kirke, BM 1988-311, ♂ slide 29708, (BMNH).</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="7" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
(Fig. 1).
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Tineidae" genus="Erechthias" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Erechthias minuscula" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minuscula">Erechthias minuscula</taxonomicName>
is probably pantropical in distribution, and occurs widely in South America, the West Indies into southern Florida, USA.
<bibRefCitation author="Robinson, GS" journalOrPublisher="Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" title="Tineid genera of Australia (Lepidoptera)." volume="2" year="1993">Robinson and Nielsen (1993)</bibRefCitation>
also report it from Australia.
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Biology.</paragraph>
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Larvae of
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Tineidae" genus="Erechthias" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Erechthias minuscula" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minuscula">Erechthias minuscula</taxonomicName>
are scavengers on a wide variety of dead plant material and have been reported feeding on or within dead tree trunks, stems, seed pods, fruits, flowers, and leaves (
<bibRefCitation author="Heppner, JH" journalOrPublisher="Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" title="Lepidoptera of Florida, Part 1, Introduction and Catalog, Arthropods of Florida and Neichboring Land Areas." year="2003">Heppner 2003</bibRefCitation>
: 236).
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