
ATTEVA. aol 
_ Soc. Ent. Fr. 48 (5 s. 9:1879) 287-8 (1879) *. Atteva punctella (p.) Berg Aun. Soc. 
Ci. Argent. 10 100-2 sp. 1 (1880). Octa punctella (p.) Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lend. 1891 
532, 547 sp. 113 (1892); Hdm. Stett. Ent. Ztg. 57 10-11 sp. 85 (1896)'*. Adteva 
punctella (p.) WIsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 112-3 sp. 139 (1897) ". 
Type: punctella Stoll (Suriname), Coll. C. Stoll? [=pustulella F. ; = subtilis Hb., nn. | 
Hab. AMERICA, C-S-I. Central America—PANAMA: CHIRIQUI: Bugaba, 800- 
1500 ft., 1881-3 (G. C. Champion): canau zonz: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (A. Buseck): 
PEARL 1°*: San Miguel (Isla del Rey), IV. 1883 (G. C. Champion). South America *° 
—Cotomsia °° —Dvrtcw Guiana (SURINAME) + "16 __Frencn Guiana “6: Cayeune 
(Bar ©; W. Schaus) St. Laurent, Rio Maroni, 1-21. XI.1906 (£. Le Moult)— 
BraziL”® 4 : para®: Pard, I. 1893 (A. Schulz); Santarem (HW. W. Bates)*™: 
AMAZONS: Villa Nova (I W. Bates)® ; Boaventura, Rio Jutahy, 24. 1.1875 (J. W. Z. 
Trail); Marapata, 12. VII. (J. W. H. Tr ail): PARANA: Castro (EH. Dukinfield-Jones) 
—ARGENTINA®“™ 1: BUENOS: arRES™ ®: La Plata (1908:122); Buenos Aires, 
® Ailanthus glandulosa (C. Berg)" °: ta riosa: La Rioja (FE. Giaconelli). West 
Indies **““—S* Croix, © Castela erecta (Baron Eggers) °-"*—Guape.oure (1880: 34) 
—Trinipad ** *° (W. Schaus). 
[In 1897 the fall synonymy of pustulella F. and allied forms was given under the 
heading of Atteva punctella Cram. & Stoll with the following note: 
‘** Grote seems to have been of the opinion that three species are represented in the 
above synonymy .(which if distinct should receive the following names :—aurea Fitch, 
United States; gemmata Grt., West Indies; punctella Cram., 8. America); on the 
other hand, Riley and Berg considered that these names represent but a single species. 
I give the synonymy as I find it, withholding my own views until I have had the 
opportunity of studying more material” (Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 112-3 sp. 139). 
One error occurs in this synonymy: gemmata Grote and the Cuban references 
should be eliminated, these pertain to the species recorded as Atteva fastuosa Z. 
(Wlsm: Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 113 sp. 141) which must be known as Atteva gemmata 
Grote (=fastuosa Z.)—at present this has only been taken in Cuba, and Ruatan Island, 
in the Gulf of Honduras. ‘The references to Atteva aurea Fitch (=compta Clms.) 
—the form well-known in the United States, extending southward to British Hon- 
duras, and .also recorded as from Canada—must also be eliminated as belonging to 
a species distinct from Atteva pustulella F. (= Qpunetella Stoll ;=subtilis Hb.). 
Fabricius proposed the neonym Tinea pustulella F. in lieu of §Phalaena Tinea punctella 
Stoll (1781), evidently because this was absolutely homonymous with Phalaena Tinea 
punctella L. (1761—Fn. Suec. 368 sp. 1437), and Hiibner probably proposed his 
neonym Crameria subtilis Hb. for the same reason. 
Atteva pustulella F. (= §punctella Stoll) ranges from Panama to Argentina, and 
occurs also in the West Indies; it is recorded as feeding on Ailanthus glandulosa 
Desv. and Castela erecta Turp., both belonging to the Simarudeae. 
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