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THE PAN-PACIFIC ENTOMOLOGIST 
Mictopsichia is similar to Hilarographa in a number of characters and 
has been included in the Tribe Hilarographini by Diakonoff (1977). The 
naked haustellum, tortricoid abdominal articulation, and wing vena¬ 
tion, indicate a placement in this tribe of Tortricidae. 
The genus is included here because of a male (USNM) collected in 
Florida nearly 100 years ago. The specimen appears to be near M. 
fuesliniana. The origin of the Florida specimen has not yet been deter¬ 
mined, but it is a doubtful resident as no further specimens have 
been captured and the genus is not known from the West Indies. 
Both Cramer and Stoll have been cited as author of Mictopsichia 
fuesliniana. Opinion 516 (1958) was instituted in part to settle the 
authorship question of the Cramer and Stoll works, but it contains 
several errors in reference to Cramer ([1780J-1782) and the supple¬ 
ment by Stoll ([1787]-1791) (W. D. Field, pers. comm.). A major discre¬ 
pancy of Opinion 516 involves its acceptance of the two works as 
binomial, whereas the text is not always binomial. However, since 
Clerck’s leones Insectorum Rariorum is accepted, which also is not 
consistantly binomial, Opinion 516 can be followed in this regard. 
Roepke (1956) noted that Cramer’s complete 4 volume work was pub¬ 
lished in 33 parts, with the index to volume 4 as the last issue of 1782. 
Stoll’s volume is often cited as a fifth volume of the Cramer series. 
Using Opinion 516, it is customary now to use the generic combina¬ 
tion of the index, but use the date and spelling of the species name 
from the text: thus, M. fuesliniana (Cramer, [1781]) instead of M. Fues- 
lynialis (Cramer, 1782). In addition, Opinion 516 is incorrect in giving 
Stoll authorship of most of volume 4 of Cramer ([1780]-1782). Notwith¬ 
standing the fact that Stoll may have edited this volume, neither 
posthumous publication — Cramer died in 1776 — nor footnotes by 
Stoll changes the authorship from Cramer to Stoll. In lieu of a revised 
Opinion 516, I use the corrections thereof as noted above, with 
Cramer being cited as author of M. fuesliniana instead of Stoll. 
Acknowledgments 
The following kindly commented on the manuscript: A. Diakonoff 
(Rijksmuseum van Naturlijke Historic, Leiden, Netherlands), J. F. G. 
Clarke and W. D. Duckworth (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. 
C.), and D. H. Habeck (University of Florida). Research for this paper 
was conducted, in part, while on a Smithsonian Institution pre- 
doctoral fellowship at the National Museum of Natural History, 
Washington, D. C. Examination of types at various institutions in 
North America and Europe was funded by a National Science Founda¬ 
tion dissertation grant (DEB 76-12550), the Smithsonian Institution, 
and the Department of Entomology and Nematology, Institute of 
Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. 
