Acmanthina acmanthes

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Acmanthina acmanthes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Acmanthina
Species:
A. acmanthes
Binomial name
Acmanthina acmanthes
(Meyrick, 1931) [1]
Synonyms
  • Peronea acmanthesMeyrick, 1931
  • Acleris acmanthes(Meyrick, 1931)
  • "Eulia" acmanthes(Meyrick, 1931)
  • Haemateulia acmanthes(Meyrick, 1931)

Acmanthina acmanthes is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae in tribe Euliini. [2] It is found in Chile and Argentina.

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Taxonomy

The species was first described in 1931 by Edward Meyrick as Peronea acmanthes. [lower-alpha 1] It was subsequently transferred to genus Acleris in 1958, [lower-alpha 2] from where it was transferred in 1995 to " Eulia ", [lower-alpha 3] then in 1999 to Haemateulia , [lower-alpha 4] and transferred once more in 2000 to its current genus, Acmanthina , [lower-alpha 5] of which it is the namesake [3] and type species. [2]

Distribution and habitat

Acmanthina acmanthes occurs in Argentina [2] and Chile, [2] where it has been found in the Valparaiso Region (Quillota Province), the O'Higgins Region (Cachapoal Province), the Maule Region (in the Talca and Curico provinces), the Bio-Bio Region (Bio-Bio Province), the Ñuble Region, the Araucania Region (Cautín Province) and the Los Lagos Region (Llanquihue Province). [4] It has been found at elevations from 300 to 1400 m. [3]

Appearance

Acmanthina acmanthes has dark black and brown forewings with a white patch and a forewing length of 6.2–7.2 mm. [3] Antennae are serrated in male specimens only. [3]

Notes

  1. ↑ in Meyrick, Edward (1931). "Micro-Lepidoptera from south Chile and Argentina". Anales Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires. 36. [3]
  2. ↑ in Clarke, J.F. Gates (1958). Catalogue of the type specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Museum (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick - Volume III. p. 3. Retrieved 31 August 2022. [3]
  3. ↑ in Powell, J. A.; Razowski, J.; Brown, J. W. (1995). "Tortricidae: Tortricinae, Chlidanotinae". In Heppner, J.B. (ed.). Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera, Checklist. Part II. Hyblaeoidea-Pyraloidea-Tortricoidea. Association for Tropical Lepidoptera. [3]
  4. ↑ in Razowski, Józef (1999). "Euliini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) of Chile". Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne. 68. [3]
  5. ↑ in Brown, John W. (2000). "Acmanthina: a new genus of tortricid moths from Chile and Argentina". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 108. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Gilligan, T.M.; Baixeras, J.; Brown, J.W. (2018). "Acmanthina". T@RTS: Online World Catalogue of the Tortricidae (Ver. 4.0). Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Brown, John W.; Razowski, Józef (2003). "Description of Ptychocroca, a new genus from Chile and Argentina, with comments on the Bonagota Razowski group of genera (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Euliini)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 303. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Brown, John W. (2000). "Acmanthina: a new genus of tortricid moths from Chile and Argentina". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 108. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  4. ↑ Razowski, J.; Pelz, V. (2010). "Tortricidae from Chile (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)". SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología. 38 (149). Retrieved 31 August 2022.


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