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in most cases to be of specific value, it may have some taxonomic 

 significance at a generic level ; however, the virtual absence of published 

 comparative data m conj miction with a general paucity of study 

 material make it difficult to assess the relative value of this character. 



In general, the carposinid spermatophore consists largely of a 

 thick-w^alled, rodlike shaft w^hich often becomes folded or coiled 

 withm the bursa. At some point along the shaft, often at the anterior 

 end, the walls become abruptly reduced m thickness and dilate to 

 form a membranous sac from which the sperm escape as soon as the 

 sac is ruptured. 



With regard to the American species, the spermatophore is rather 

 similar among the members of Carposina in possessmg an abruptly 

 swollen anterior end, which in turn often terminates in a small, slender 

 appendage. The genus Bondia exhibits greater interspecific variation, 

 and as a group differs from Carposina in the reduction of the inflated 

 portion. Some species (e.g., B. comonana and B. crescentella) possess 

 a slight membranous enlargement at the anterior end, whereas in 

 others (e.g., B.jidelis and B. fuscata) this occurs approximately mid- 

 way along the main shaft. 



Checklist 



1. Carposina Herrich-Schaffer 

 Carposina, subgenus sensu strictu 



1. niponensis ottawana Kearfott 

 nicholsana Forbes 



2. fernaldana Busck 



3. simulator Davis 



4. biloba Davis 



5. engalactis Meyrick 



6. phycitana Walsingham 

 Trepsitypa Meyrick, subgenus 



7. cardinata (Meyrick) 

 Dipremna Davis, subgenus 



8. cretata Davis 

 Epipremna Davis, subgenus 



9. dominicae Davis 

 Hypopremna Davis, subgenus 



10. buUata Meyrick 



2. Atoposea Davis 



11. maxima (Meyrick) 



3. Bondia Newman 



12. comonana (Kearfott) 



13. crescentella (Walsingham) 



14. shastana Davis 



15. spicata Davis 



16. fidelis Meyrick 



17. fuscata Davis 



