A new genus and species of Grapholitini (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) from Florida, U.S.A.

By

Rota, Jadranka
Brown, John W. (John Wesley), 1951-

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2009

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

23

Pages

39-46

Subjects

Dichrorampha-group , fruit-borer , genitalia , Lauraceae , Morphology , Persea , Riculorampha ancyloides , wing venation

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.23.213

 

Abstract

Riculorampha ancyloides Rota & Brown, gen. n., sp. n. from Florida, is described and illustrated. The type series was reared from the fruit of redbay, Persea borbonia (Lauraceae). The new genus is assigned provisionally to the Dichrorampha-group of genera (Grapholitini) on the basis of the following characters: forewing termen with a row of black dots, forewing fringe with a shallow subapical notch, hindwing veins Rs and M1 separate and parallel or subparallel, female frenulum with two bristles, and corpus bursae with a single signum. The last character is shared with Dichrorampha Guenée, Ricula Heinrich, Riculoides Pastrana, and Goditha Heinrich.