Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 118 1966 Number 3535 



NEOTROPICAL MICROLEPIDOPTERA, IX 



REVISION OF GENUS PSEUDATTERIA 

 (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTRICIDAE) ' 



By Nicholas S. Obraztsov^ 



The species of the genus Pseudatteria Walsingham with their 

 comparatively large size and bright coloring appear as the most 

 striking moths among the entire South American Tortricidae; to- 

 gether with two other superficially similar genera, Atteria Walker and 

 Idolatteria Walsingham, they represent an endemic group of the 

 Neotropical fauna. Meyrick (190S) estabhshed a separate familj^ 

 Ceracidae which included the Oriental and Palaearctic genus Cerace 

 Walker. Misled by some superficial resemblance of the Neotropical 

 Atteria with Cerace, the same author (MejTick, 1910) considered 

 them to be synonyms of a common genus. In accordance with this 

 the Pseudatteria species, not separated at that time from Atteria, 

 should also become members of the family Ceracidae. Later Meyrick 

 (1912) included this "family" in the Tortricidae, and treated it 

 (i\Ie}Tick, 1913) as a group of genera, not naming it separately. 



1 Prepared with the aid of a National Science Foundation Grant. Previous 

 parts of this same series are: I and II, Clarke, 1962, Proc. U.S. Nat. ]Mus., vol. 

 113, no. 3457, pp. 373-3SS; III, Clarke, 1964, ibid., vol. 115, no. 34S0, pp. 61-84; 

 IV, Duckworth, 1964, ibid., vol. 116, no. 3497, pp. 97-114; V, Obraztsov, 1964, 

 ibid., vol. 116, no. 3501, pp. 183-196; VI, Clarke, 1964, ibid., vol. 116, no. 3502, 

 pp. 197-204; VII, Obraztsov, 1966, ibid., vol. 118, no. 3527, pp. 221-232; VIII, 

 Duckworth, 1966, ibid., vol. 118, no. 3531, pp. 391-404. 



2 Deceased Mav 6, 1966. 



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