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Apotomops Powell and Obraztsov 1986

Description

APOTOMOPS Powell and Obraztsov, 1986

Apotomops Powell and Obraztsov, in Powell 1986: 396; Brown, 1989: 320; Brown and Powell, 1991: 4; Brown, 2000b: 108; Razowski and Becker, 2000: 75.

Type species: Olethreutes wellingtoniana Kearfott, 1907, by original designation.

Diagnosis. Apotomops is superficially and genitalically most similar to Bonagota. Although the relationship between them is not entirely resolved, the two appear to represent monophyletic sister groups. Under present concepts, Apotomops can be defined by the reduced socii that are mostly fused to the tegumen, the development of teeth along the dorsal edge of the sacculus, and the reduced cilia and rounded aspect of the male antennal flagellomeres. Powell (1986) included two species in the genus: A. wellingtoniana (Kearfott) and A. texasana (Blanchard and Knudson). We add A. carchicola (Razowski and Becker), new combination, A. sololana (Razowski), new combination, A. boliviana, new species, and A. spomotopa, new species. Although all species of Apotomops and Bonagota are similar in facies, A. wellingtoniana and A. texasana are most similar to each other superficially, while A. carchicola and A. boliviana are more similar to species of Bonagota.

Distribution. Apotomops is one of very few genera in Euliini that occurs north of Mexico (e.g., Eulia Linnaeus, Dorithia Powell, Anopina Obraztsov). Apotomops wellingtoniana occurs across Canada from British Columbia (type locality) to Nova Scotia (USNM), and south through the Rocky Mountains to the Mexican states of Durango (UCB), Nuevo Leon, Distrito Federal, and Veracruz (Razowski and Becker 2000). In eastern North America, it ranges as far south as the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee (USNM). It is possible that specimens from Mexico are not conspecific with northern A. wellingtoniana, but we could find no characters to convincingly separate the two. Apotomops texasana is known only from Texas; A. carchicola and A. sololana are known only from Ecuador; A. boliviana is known only from Bolivia; and A. spomotopa is known only from Peru.

Notes

Published as part of Brown, John W. & Razowski, Józef, 2003, Description of Ptychocroca, a new genus from Chile and Argentina, with comments on the Bonagota Razowski group of genera (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Euliini), pp. 1-31 in Zootaxa 303 on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156574

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Powell and Obraztsov
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Tortricidae
Genus
Apotomops
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Apotomops and, 1986 sec. Brown & Razowski, 2003

References

  • Powell, J. A. (1986) Synopsis of the classification of Neotropical Tortricinae, with descriptions of new genera and species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 62, 372 - 398.
  • Brown, J. W. (1989) Generic reassignments for Neotropical tortricid moths (Tortricidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 43, 313 - 322.
  • Brown, J. W. & Powell, J. A. (1991) Systematics of the Chrysoxena group of genera (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Euliini). University of California Publications in Entomology, 111, 87 pp. + figs.
  • Brown, J. W. (2000 b) Acmanthina: a new genus of tortricid moths (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) from Chile and Argentina. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 108, 106 - 113.
  • Razowski, J. & Becker, V. O. (2000) Revision of the New World Euliini - genus Bonagota Razowski, with notes on Apotomops Powell et Obraztsov (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 69, 65 - 76.