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UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 207 



Genus 88: Ulophora 



[Venational division B. Forewing with subbasal scale ridge; 

 veins 4 and 5 approximate for a short distance from cell. Hind 

 wing with vein 2 from well before angle; 4 and 5 stalked for about 

 half their lengths; cell short (less than one-third the length of 

 wing). Male antenna simple. Labial palpus uncurved, long, 

 slender. MaxUlary palpus squamous. Male genitalia with 

 transtUla incomplete or absent; penis armed with a longitudinal 

 row of short, slender spines.] 



88. Genus Ulophora Ragonot 



Ulophora Ragonot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, vol. 10, Bull., 

 p. vii, 1890; Monograph, pt. 1, p. 155, 1893. — Forbes, 

 Cornell Mem. 68, p. 619, 1923. (Type of genus: Ulophora 

 groteii Ragonot.) 



Acromeseres Dyar, Ins. Insc. Menstr., vol. 7, p. 41, 1919. (Type 

 of genus: Acromeseres dialithus Dyar. New synonymy.) 



Tongue well developed. Antenna simple; shaft 

 somewhat broadly flattened towards base on male but 

 without sinus or scale tuft or thornlike spines, on female 

 threadlike, weakly pubescent on both sexes. Labial 

 palpus upcurved, reaching well above vertex, slender, 

 smoothly scaled; third segment about one-third the 

 length of second, acuminate. Maxillary palpus squa- 

 mous, more broadly so on male than on female. Fore- 

 wing with subbasal ridge of raised scales ; 1 1 veins ; vein 



2 from before but rather near lower outer angle of cell ; 



3 from the angle, at base nearer to 4 than to 2; 4 and 5 

 approximate at base and for a very short distance 

 beyond; 6 from below upper angle of cell, straight; 8 

 and 9 stalked for slightly more than half their lengths; 

 10 from the cell, nowhere approximate to the stalk of 

 8-9; male without costal fold. Hind wing with vein 2 

 from well before lower outer angle of cell; 3 from the 

 angle connate with or very closely approximate to the 

 stalk of 4-5 at base ; 4 and 5 stalked for about half their 

 lengths; 7 and 8 closely approximate for a short dis- 

 tance from cell; cell slightly less than one-third the 

 length of wing; discocellular vein curved, not appreci- 

 ably produced at lower angle. Eighth abdominal 

 segment of male with a weak pair of ventrolateral hair 

 tufts. 



Male genitalia with imcus triangulate, its apex 

 narrowly rounded. Apical process of gnathos a stout, 

 curved hook. Transtnia incomplete or absent (its 

 elements, when distinguishable, very small and weakly 

 sclerotized). Harpe simple; costa broadly but weakly 

 sclerotized; clasper vestigial. Aedeagus straight; penis 

 armed with a longitudinal row of short, slender, 

 straight spines (16 to 20, the number individually vari- 

 able). Vinculum stout, considerably longer than great- 

 est width, but slightly tapered to rounded terminal 

 margin. 



Female genitalia without signa; bursa with a mat of 

 fine scobinations at and near junction of bursa and 

 ductus bursae, otherwise smooth and membranous; 

 ductus bursae longer than bursa, slender, tubular, 

 unsclerotized, genital opening simple, narrow; ductus 

 seminalis from middle of bursa. 



A distinct genus of uncertain affinities; contains one 

 North American and one very closely related neo- 

 tropical species. 



365. Ulophora groteii Ragonot 

 FiGUBB 420 



Ulophora groteii Ragonot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, vol. 10, 

 Bull., p. vii, 1890; Monograph, pt. 1, p. 156, 1893.— Hulst, 

 Phycitidae of N. Amer., p. 222, 1890. — Forbes, Cornell 

 Mem. 68, p. 619, 1923.— McDunnough, Check list. No. 

 6117, 1939. 



Ulophora tephrosiella Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 6, 

 p. 107, 1904.— Forbes, Cornell Mem. 68, p. 619, 1923.— 

 McDunnough, Checklist, No. 6118, 1939. (New synonymy.) 



Forewing brown dusted with white on basal and 

 median areas and narrowly along terminal margin, 

 giving the paler areas an ashy gray appearance and ac- 

 centing the brown shade along costa and bordering the 

 transverse lines; the latter narrow, faint, silvery scaled; 

 antemedial line at middle of wing, oblique, somewhat 

 sinuate-dentate, bordered outwardly by a narrow brown 

 line and inwardly by a broad brown band, the inner 

 edge of which forms a stout raised-scale ridge extending 

 from inner margin to top of cell, the inner margin rather 

 strongly dusted with white; sub terminal line sinuate, 

 with rather broad inner and outer brown borders; discal 

 dots obscure, more or less confluent, brown; the terminal 

 dots confluent, forming a fine brown line along outer 

 margin. Hind wing pale to dark smoky brown; the 

 veins somewhat darker; a fine dark brown line along 

 termen. Alar expanse, 11-19 mm. 



Male genitalia distinguished from those of the species 

 following (guarinella) chiefly by the broader harpes and 

 more narrowly rounded apex of uncus. The number 

 and length of the spines on penis is an individual charac- 

 ter. Our figure 420a shows the minimum in number 

 and the maximum in length. Female genitalia like 

 those of guarinella. 



Type localities: North Carolina {groteii, in Paris 

 Mus.); Washington, D. C. {tephrosiella, in USNM). 



Food plant: Tephrosia spp. Larvae feeding on pods 

 and seeds. 



Distribution: New Jersey, Woodbine (Sept.); Dis- 

 trict of Columbia (July, Aug.); Virginia, Pendleton 

 (Aug.), Skyland (July); North Carolina, Southern Pines 

 (June, July, Aug., Sept.), Tryon (July, Aug.); South 

 Carolina, Clemson College (July); Georgia, Atlanta 

 (June), Spalding County (Nov.); Florida, Glenwood, 

 Lake Alfred (May, July), Lakeland (Sept.), Polk 

 County (Aug.), Tampa (June), Winter Haven (July); 

 Alabama, Auburn; Louisiana, Vernon Parish (Aug.); 

 Texas, Heme, Sandflat. 



Dyar's tephrosiella was described from small speci- 

 mens. There are no structural or color differences to 

 distinguish these from typical groteii. The larva lacks 

 the sclerotized rings around seta lib of mesothorax and 

 seta III of the eighth abdominal segment, normally 

 characteristic of phycitid larvae. 



