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4. Apterona Milliere 



Apterona Milliere, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, vol. 4, no. 2, p. 192, 1857. — Heylaerts, 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 25, pp. 67, 71, 1881.— Speyer, Stettiner Ent. 

 Zeit., vol. 47, p. 349, 1886.— Heylaerts, Tijdschr. Ent., vol. 30, pp. 5, 6, 

 pi. 10, figs. 4-9, 1887a.— Kirby, Cat. Lep. Heter., vol. 1, p. 518, 1892.— 

 Tutt, Nat. Hist. Brit. Lep., vol. 2, pp. 110, 112, 113, 116, 267, 369, 372, 

 422, 423, 1900.— Staudinger and Rebel, Cat. Lep. Palaearct. Faun., 

 p. 397, n. 740, 1901.— Rebel in Spuler, Schmett. Eur., vol. 2, p. 180, 

 1910.— Rebel, Fr. Berge's Schmett. -Buch, ed. 9, p. 453, 458, n. 410, 1910.— 

 Strand in Seitz, Macrolep. World, vol. 2, p. 363, 1912.— Dalla Torre, 

 Ent. Jahrb., vol. 36, p. 130, 1927.— Wehrli, Ent. Zeitschr., Frankfurt, 

 vol. 41, p. 329, 1927.— Strand, Ent. Zeitschr., Frankfurt, vol. 41, pp. 332, 

 333, 1927.— Hering in Brohmer, Tierw. Mitteleur., vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 48, 

 49, 50, 1928.— Dalla Torre and Strand, Lep. Cat., pars 34, p. 101, 1929.— 

 Gaede in Seitz, Macrolep. World, vol. 14, p. 486, 1929. — Kozhantshikov, 

 Fauna SSSR, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 314, 317, 320, 448, 1956. 



Cochliotheca Rambur, Cat. Syst. Lep. Andalousie, vol. 2, p. 301, 1866 (type = 

 Cochliotheca helicinella Rambur, 1866; not C. helicinella Herrich-Schiiflfer, 

 1845). — Krby, Cat. Lep. Heter., vol. 1, p. 518, 1892 (synonym of 

 Apterona). — Piingeler, Iris, vol. 5, p. 137, 1893. — Strand, Ent. Zeit., 

 vol. 41, pp. 332-333, 1927.— Wehrli, Ent. Zeit., vol. 41, pp. 329-332, 

 381-383, 1927.— Dalla Torre and Strand, Lep. Cat., pars 34, p. 101, 1929 

 (synonym of Apterona). — Kozhantshikov, Fauna SSSR, vol. 3, no. 2, 

 p. 448, 1956 (synonym of Apterona). — Forster and Wohlfahrt, Schmett. 

 Mitteleur., vol. 3, p. 169, 1960. 



Type of genus. — Psyche crenulella Bruand, 1853. Designated by 

 Kirby, 1892. 



Male. — Small, delicate moths with slender bodies. Antennae 

 bipectinate or serrate. Epiphysis absent; tibiae without spurs, or 

 hind tibiae with short apical spurs. Wings (fig. 152) broadly rounded; 

 evenly clothed with hairlike scales. Primaries with 10 veins, 

 secondaries with 7. 



Female.^ — Head inconspicuous, bent beneath thorax; antennae and 

 wings absent; eyes represented by unfaceted dark spots, legs reduced 

 to unsegmented stubs. Abdomen whitish grey; dorsum of thorax 

 and head brownish. Body curved ventrad, nearly naked, very 

 sparsely covered with small white hairs and characteristic lateral anal 

 hair tufts, 



4. Apterona crenulella form helix (Siebold) 



Figure 69; Map 1 



Psyche helix Siebold, Jahresb. Schles. Gesellsch. vaterl. Kultur, p. 87, 1850. 

 Apterona helix (Siebold) Dalla Torre and Strand, Lep. Cat., pars 34, p. 103 



(synonym [form?] of A. crenulella). — Nageli, Mitteil. Schweiz. Ent. 



Gesellsch., vol. 15, pp. 56-61, 1931. — Narbel-Hofstetter, Rev. Suisse 



ZooL, vol. 53, pp. 625-681, 1946; vol. 61, p. 417, 1954.— Kozhantshikov, 



Fauna SSSR, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 451, 454, 455, 456, 1956. 



