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Farragona cremnobates Austin & Dombroskie 2020, new combination

Description

Farragona cremnobates (Walsingham), new combination

Tortrix cremnobates Walsingham, 1914: 293.

Clepsis cremnobates: Razowski 1979: 132 (new combination).

Type material.— Tortrix cremnobates Walsingham, 1914: Holotype, ♀: GUA- TEMALA: Totonicapam: 8,500-10,500 ft., viii 1880, G. C. Champion [not examined] (BMNH).

Discussion.— Razowski (1979) transferred Tortrix cremnobates to Clepsis without explanation. He noted that the holotype was missing its abdomen, so the new combination was presumably based on forewing pattern alone. However, the forewing length of 12 mm raises suspicions about its placement. We are unaware of any Neotropical Clepsis that large (i.e., the largest Neotropical species is Clepsis ecclisis (Walsingham, 1914), with a forewing length of 9 mm). In the absence of genitalia to examine, we transfer this species to Farragona based on its similarity in forewing pattern and shape (see Walsingham, 1914, Table IX), size, and identical type locality to those of Farragona cratista.

Notes

Published as part of Austin, Kyhl A. & Dombroskie, Jason J., 2020, New Combinations In Neotropical Archipini And Atteriini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Tortricinae), With The Description Of A New Genus, pp. 1-11 in Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 122 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.122.1.1In, http://zenodo.org/record/3724761

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Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Scientific name authorship
Austin & Dombroskie
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Tortricidae
Genus
Farragona
Species
cremnobates
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
new combination
Type status
type
Taxonomic concept label
Farragona cremnobates &, 2020 sec. Austin & Dombroskie, 2020

References

  • Razowski, J. 1979. Revision of the genus Clepsis Guenee (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae). Part 2. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 24 (2): 113 - 152.