A New Genus of Pyralidae and its Species (Lepidoptera)

1960 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 188-192
Author(s):  
Eugene Munroe

Frons somewhat flattened and oblique; labial palpus upturned, second joint with a deep, compressed carina of scales anteroventrally, third joint short and blunt, concealed in scaling of second; body moderately robust; praecinctorium prominently bilobed; anal tuft of male prominent. Forewing rather narrow, outer margin sinuate, apex acute; R1, from hefore apex of cell; R3, from apex, closely approximated to R3 + 4; R3 and R4, stalked for about three-fifths of their length; R5, straight and well-separated from R3 + 4; M1 from behind anterior angle of cell; discocellular weakly angulate; M2, M3 and Cu1, arising fairly close together around posterior angle of cell; M3 and Cu1, weakly approximated basally; Cu2 from cell rather close to angle; anal loop large and complete. Hind wing with outer margin weakly sinuated; Sc and Rs, strongly anastomosed; Rs, hardly stalked with M1; cell short, discocellular weakly angled in middle; M2, M3 and Cu1 from posterior angle of cell, approximated basally; Cu2 from very close to angle of cell; three anal veins present.

1959 ◽  
Vol 91 (6) ◽  
pp. 359-371
Author(s):  
Eugene Munroe

Frons and scape rosy pink; vertex yellowish buff; labial palpus on outer surface rosy pink, on inner surface yellowish buff; maxillary palpus yellowish buff; antenna of male very narrowly bipectinate, light buff; thorax and abdomen above rosy pink with some buff scales; body beneath whitish buff; legs light yellowish buff. Forewing above light yellowish buff; costa broadly pink in basal third; sparse fuscous dusting in basal angle; traces of a fuscous discocellular bar; a fuscous postmedial line, concave outward opposite cell, convex and wavy from M2, to Cu2, then retracted nearly to base of Cu2, then wavy and oblique inward to inner margin; entire space beyond postmedial line deep rosy pink except for a narrow yellow crescent on outer margin in front of tornus; fringe yellow. Hind wing above yellowish buff; a small fuscous sub-basal patch; a fuscous postmedial line, excurved to Cu1, then broken, irregular and obsolescent; space beyond postmedial line rosy pink from apex to Cu1. Markings of under surface like those of upper surface, but pink areas replaced by violaceous grey. Expanse 19 mm.


1960 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Munroe

Wings, legs and antenna unmodified; frons flat and oblique, yellowish buff dorsally, fuscous on sides; labial palpus fuscous laterally with some orange scaling, yellowish buff dorsally, whitish buff at base beneath; maxillary palpus prominent, fuscous tipped with orange; proboscis orange-scaled at base; eye fuscous brown; antenna light brown; vertex rough-scaled, light yellowish brown; thorax above light yellowish brown abdomen ahove light buff, with some yellowish scaling; body beneath whitish buff, darker posteriorly; legs yellowish buff above, whitish buff beneath. Forewing above translucent dull yellow; an oblique fuscoits dash at base; an orange, inwardly and outwardly fuscous-bordered, outwardly oblique sub-basal band, beginning at R, indistinct in cell; an antemedial band, parallel to the sub-basal band, beginning at R, orange, bordered inwardly and outwardly with fuscous; a fuscous dot in anterior parr of cell beyond antemedial line; an oiange, inwardly and outwardly fuscous-bordered band on each side of discocellular, beginning at R, briefly fusing behind angle of cell, then diverging in an oval loop, converging to fuse with postmedial band near posterior margin; some specimens with an oval fuscous spot in the loop; postmedial band arising at R4, well bevond cell; orange, bordered inwardly and outwardly with fuscous, broad and erect anteriorly, narrower and somewhat bowed outwards between M2, and Cu2, weakly retracted and broadened at junction with the two medial lines; subterminal line broad, orange, diffusely bordered inwardly and, except anterior to M1, outwardly with fuscous, parallkl to outer margin, a wedge-shaped excision of inner border in cell R4; a prominent, blackish-fuscous terminal line; fringe yellowish brown, with a darker line in basal half. Hind wing ahove translucent dull yellow; an orange, fuscous-bordered discocellular bar; an orange, inwardly and outwardly fuscous-bordered postmedial band, beginning at Rs,, retracted on Cu2, nearly to angle of cell, then sinuous to anal margin; a broad subterminal band, parallel to margin, orange, diffusely bordered on both sides with fuscous; terminal line and fringe as on forewing. Wing heneath translucent dull yellow, markings of upper surface very weakly repeated on hind wing and basal half of forewing, somewhat more strongly repeated on distal half of forewing. Expanse 21 to 24 mm.


2016 ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Engel

A new genus and species of basal cyclostome Braconidae is described and figured from a male preserved in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar.  <strong><em>Rhetinorhyssalus morticinus</em></strong> Engel, new genus and species, is interesting for its combination of primitive features such as a minute apical costal cell and anal stubs in the forewing, while lacking 2Cu in the hind wing, a putatively derived trait.  As such, the genus may represent a lineage diverging from the braconid stem subsequent to many protorhyssalines, while remaining basal relative to generalized cyclostome groups such as Rhyssalinae.  In addition, the Late Cretaceous <em>Diospilus allani</em> Brues, in Campanian Canadian amber, is transferred to <strong><em>Diorhyssalus</em></strong> Engel, new genus, and its similarity to <em>Rhetinorhyssalus</em> is discussed.  This transfer results in the new combination, <em>Diorhyssalus allani</em> (Brues).  Both genera are tentatively considered as subfamily <em>incertae sedis</em>.


Author(s):  
Masaru Yamamoto ◽  
Nao Yamamoto ◽  
Hongqu Tang

A new subgenus, Nothorthocladius, of the genus Orthocladius v. d. Wulp and a new genus Yaethauma which bears a superficially resemblance to Collartomyia Goethgebuer of the subfamily Chironominae are erected, and the subgeneric and generic diagnoses are provided here. Orthocladius (Nothorthocladius) brevistylus sp. n. is described based on a single male and Yaethauma longiligulata sp. n. is described in both sexes. The former species is characterized from any other orthoclads by having the short gonostylus fused to gonocoxite. The species is treated as a member belonging to the genus Orthocladius based on various morphological features. The latter species is distinguishable from two other members of Collartomyia species by having the antepronotal lobe distinctly narrowed dorsally, the long ligula being sclerotized on the dorsolateral surface along outer margin, and the distinctly bifurcated pulvilli. Furthermore, in the male, the long and spindle-shaped anal point, the short and ovoid gonostylus, the long and distally expanded median appendage, the short and dorsolaterally elongate laterosternite, the plate-like apodeme lobe and the spermatheca bearing sclerotized neck in the female will be sufficiently separated from any described genera clearly.


Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4291 (2) ◽  
pp. 373 ◽  
Author(s):  
XIUMEI LU ◽  
WEIWEI ZHANG ◽  
MICHAEL OHL ◽  
XINGYUE LIU

A new genus and species of the lacewing family Psychopsidae, Electropsychops handlirschi gen. et sp. nov., is described based on a well preserved male specimen from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Myanmar. The new genus possesses a number of diagnostic characters of Psychopsidae, i.e., the lack of a forewing median nygma, the presence of a vena triplica, and the straight and barely forked RA. However, it also exhibits some remarkable characters that are present in Osmylopsychopidae, such as the distally narrowed forewing costal space and the sigmoid MA stem in the hind wing. The relationship between Psychopsidae and Osmylopsychopidae is briefly discussed. 


Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2353 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
MIN HUANG ◽  
YALIN ZHANG

Leafhoppers of the Eupteryx-complex differ from other members of the tribe Typhlocybini in having the posterior branch of hind wing vein R separate from the anterior branch of M (Young 1952). The complex now includes 9 known genera of which 5 genera, Aguriahana Distant 1918, Eurhadina Haupt 1929, Eupteryx Curtis 1833, Caknesia Dworakowska 1994, Almunisna Dworakowska 1969 and Bellpenna Chiang et al 1989, have been reported from China. Here we propose a new genus Comahadina Huang and Zhang which shares the hind wing character with other genera in the complex, based on a new species, Comahadina angelica Huang and Zhang, here designated as the type-species. The new genus and species are described and illustrated and a key to all genera of the Eupteryx-complex is provided.


2016 ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Engel

Two new genera and species are added to the fauna of dustywings (Coniopterygidae) preserved in Upper Cretaceous (earliest Cenomanian) amber of northern Myanmar, doubling the described diversity from this deposit.  One genus is of the subfamily Aleuropteryginae and described as Achlyoconis heptatrichia Engel, new genus and species.  This species is noteworthy for the infumate and patterned wings and unique presence of seven prominent setae positioned on thickenings occurring along the length of the forewing media.  Paranimboa litotes Engel, new genus and species, is representative of the subfamily Coniopteryginae and distinctive among Mesozoic groups for the unbranched Rs, among other traits.  In addition, a peculiar larva preserved alongside the holotype of P. litotes is described.  While having a prothoracic and head form similar to aleuropterygines as well as a labial palpus with only two palpomeres, diagnostic for Coniopterygidae, the antenna bears four articles rather than the two present in crown-group dustywings.  A revised key to the genera of Cretaceous Coniopterygidae is provided.


Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4268 (4) ◽  
pp. 581 ◽  
Author(s):  
VLADIMIR N. MAKARKIN
Keyword(s):  

Pseudosmylidia relicta gen. et sp. nov. (Neuroptera: Osmylidae) is described from the late Eocene of Florissant (U.S.A., Colorado). It is assigned to the subfamily Protosmylinae based on the presence of two venational features characteristic of the subfamily: most crossveins in the radial to intramedial spaces of the forewing are arranged in four gradate series, and CuP is short and simple or forked only once in the hind wing. This genus is remarkable by CuP in the forewing bearing few pectinate branches. This is the only genus of extant and Cenozoic fossil Osmylidae in which this plesiomorphic condition is retained.


1962 ◽  
Vol 94 (12) ◽  
pp. 1272-1273 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. N. Freeman

During his study of the ecology of red pine plantations, Mr. J. L. Martin, Forest Insect Laboratory, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, found a species of Laspeyresia feeding as larvae under the bark of living trees. This species is described here to enable him to report on the results of his investigation.Laspeyresia resinosae, new speciesAntenna, head, thorax, and abdomen powdery-grey. Basal half of forewing grey; outer half blackish, with cupreous reflections, the tips of the scales ochreous; outer three-fifths of costa with four pairs of silvery-white geminations; the basal pair of geminations fuse into a single, angular, transverse, shiny-leaden fascia, that extends to the trailing margin just beyond the middle; a similar fascia arises from the second costal geminations, and extends only to the fold; a third leaden fascia arises from the apical geminations, extends irregularly to the tornus, and is broken into three almost equal sections; the central portions of the second and third fasciae are narrowly margined with a few black scales, representing a very poorly defined ocelloid patch; outer margin with a very distinct black line basad to the shiny leaden fringe; the black line cut by three white dashes, two opposite the breaks in the outer, transverse fascia, and the third at the tornal end of that fascia. Hind wing powdery-grey; fringe dirty-white with darker basal line. Under-surface and legs silvery-grey. Tarsi black banded. Wingspread: 9.5-10.5 mm. Moth in late June and early July.


ZooKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 780 ◽  
pp. 89-108
Author(s):  
Ralph W. Holzenthal ◽  
Roger J. Blahnik ◽  
Blanca Ríos-Touma

A new genus and species of Philopotamidae (Philopotaminae),Aymaradellaboliviana, is described from the Bolivian Andes of South America. The new genus differs from other Philopotaminae by the loss of 2A vein in the hind wing and, in the male genitalia, the synscleritous tergum and sternum of segment VIII, and the elongate sclerotized dorsal processes of segment VIII. The first record ofHydrobiosella(Philopotaminae) in the New World is also provided with a new species from the Andes of Ecuador,Hydrobiosellaandina. In addition, a new species of the Neotropical genusChimarrhodella(Chimarrinae),Chimarrhodellachoco, is described from the Choco-Andean region of Ecuador, andChimarrhodellaperuviana(Ross) is recorded from Ecuador for the first time. Lastly,Wormaldiaimbrialis(Philopotaminae), new species, is described, also from the Ecuadorian Choco.


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