Redescription of little known Carpenter-Moths species Eremocossus foedus (Swinhoe, 1884) (Lepidoptera: Cossidae)

Abstract

Examining the materials deposited in the collections of Natural History Museum (London, Great Britain) and Naturhistorisches Museum (Wien, Austria) we studied the holotype (male) and the topotypes (males) of E. foedus (Swinhoe, 1884) [Yakovlev, Witt, 2016]. The male genitalia slides [Lafontaine, 2004] were examined with an Olympus SZX16 microscope. The images were taken with the Olympus SZX16 camera. The genitalia and imago images were processed using Corel Draw software. To establish the diagnosis, all valid species and subspecies of the genus were examined: E. vaulogeri blanca (Daniel, 1949) and E. nubica Yakovlev, 2008 (holotype deposited in the Zoologische Staatssammlung der Bayerischen Staaten, Munich, Germany), E. vaulogeri (Staudinger, 1897), E. vaulogeri jordana (Staudinger, 1897), and E. asema (Püngeler, 1899) (cotypes deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institut für Evolution und Biodiversitatsforschung, Berlin, Germany), E. vaulogeri senegalensis Le Cerf, 1919 and E. vaulogeri meirleirei (Rungs, 1951) (holotypes deposited in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France), E. erebuni Yakovlev, 2008 (holotype deposited in Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia), and E. almeriana (de Freina, Witt, 1990) (holotype deposited in Museum Witt, Munich, Germany).