Published October 13, 2021 | Version v1
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Cypholomia Meyrick 1933

  • 1. Corresponding member, Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland. Via Sant'Agostino, 51, Avigliana (Torino), Italy.
  • 2. African Natural History Research Trust, Kingsland, Leominster, Herefordshire, HR 6 9 QA, UK.
  • 3. Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitaetsforschung
  • 4. Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, IMRIC, Kuvin Centre for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
  • 5. Botanical garden of Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

Description

Cypholomia Meyrick, 1933: 378

Type series: Cypholomia leptodeta Meyrick, 1933: 378. Type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Remarks. The type species was described from three males syntypes from Elisabethville (currently Lubumbashi, DRC) (ex-coll. Seydel). The examination of the type series, deposited in RMCA, shows that the genus is actually very close to Charltona. The male genitalia differ in the strong development of the vinculum and in the phallus subapically broadened, as opposed to the moderate development of the vinculum and cylindrical phallus in Charltona. A revision of the genus Charltona including examination of Cypholomia leptodeta is needed in order to ascertain the validity of Cypholomia. Meyrick (1934) described two additional species of Cypholomia: C. amphiaula and C. crypsibela. Both have genitalia structure rather different from that of C. leptodeta and are respectively transferred to Ancylogastra Bassi & Poltavsky, gen. n. and Prionotalis, below.

Notes

Published as part of Bassi, Graziano, Sáfián, Szabolcs, Léger, Théo, Müller, Günter C., Kravchenko, Vasiliy D. & Poltavsky, Alexander N., 2021, Ancylogastra, a new genus of Afrotropical Crambinae, with descriptions of seven new species (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea, Crambidae), pp. 42-60 in Zootaxa 5052 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5052.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5566019

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References

  • Meyrick, E. (1930 - 1936) Exotic Microlepidoptera. Taylor and Francis, London, 642 pp.