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{"title":"Telegonus fulminator (Sepp, [1841]) (Hesperiidae: Eudaminae) and its Recently Designated Neotype","authors":"H. Gernaat, Joke Van Den Heuvel, P. Teunissen, Frans Barten","doi":"10.18473/lepi.77i2.a7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18473/lepi.77i2.a7","url":null,"abstract":"The genus Telegonus (Hesperiidae: Eudaminae: Eudamini) has about 26 described species (Ratnasingham & Hebert 2007). Of these, the Telegonus fulgerator species group comprises about 17 species, most of them with rather similar habitus of the imagines, with, probably, a considerable number of species yet to be described (Ratnasingham & Hebert 2007, Zhang et al. 2023, pers. obs.). In a 2004 seminal paper by Hebert et al., not only was the great utility of DNA technology demonstrated in distinguishing Telegonus species (at that time in the genus Astraptes), it also showed that the most differentiating morphological features were in the last instar larvae (Hebert et al. 2004). Recently, Zhang et al. (2023) have designated a neotype for Papilio fulminator Sepp, [1841] from Suriname and transferred it to the genus Telegonus. They report that no putative type specimens were found in the collections in London (NHM-UK), Berlin (MFNB), Paris (MNHP), Leiden (RMNH) or Munich (ZSMC). In addition, the present first author unsuccessfully searched the former collection of the Zoological Museum in Amsterdam (the place where Sepp lived and worked; the collection is now housed in Naturalis, Leiden) as well as the National Zoological Collection of Suriname in Paramaribo for putative type specimens of Sepp. Moreover, in the preface of the first volume of Surinaamsche Vlinders, Sepp [1829–1843] mentions drawings and notes of the rearings in Suriname, but no specimens. Therefore, it is safe to assume that the type specimen of T. fulminator is lost, as correctly stated by Zhang et al. (2023), and this holds, in all probability, for the type specimens of all the species described in the three volumes of Surinaamsche Vlinders. T. fulminator has not been recorded in Suriname since the observations in the late 18th century, which led to its description. Here, we review what is known of the species and provide some comments on the validity of the neotype. Papilio fulminator Sepp, [1841], was described on pp. 75–76 and illustrated on pl. 34 in the first volume of Sepp ([1829–1843]) (Fig. 1b). A species description is hardly given by Sepp, only the statement is provided that the hindwings are more rounded and the ventral side differs from specimens illustrated by Cramer. Jan Sepp was a publisher in Amsterdam. As he wrote in the preface of the first volume of Surinaamsche Vlinders, the rearings in Suriname had been done by H.J. Scheller, who was commissioned by J.G. Wichers (governor of Suriname from 1784 to 1790). In 1790, Wichers took Scheller’s drawings and field notes with him to Holland (Netherlands) and, eventually, publication followed in 38 installments, each with four plates. Jan Sepp died in 1853, but his son Cornelis continued the publishing firm and became a member of the NEV (Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging) [Netherlands Entomological Society] in 1854-1855 (Anonymous 1859). Cornelis Sepp’s death in 1868 meant the end of the firm. His widow donated Scheller’s p","PeriodicalId":259893,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society","volume":"220 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130231013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Seven New Species of Hawaiian Leaf-Roller Moths (Tortricidae)","authors":"K. A. Austin, D. Rubinoff","doi":"10.18473/lepi.77i2.a1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18473/lepi.77i2.a1","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT. Seven new species of endemic leaf-roller moths are described from the Hawaiian Islands: Eccoptocera hinanohomauna sp. nov. (O‘ahu), Eccoptocera ohiaha, sp. nov. (O‘ahu), Pararrhaptica kaiona, sp. nov. (O‘ahu), Pararrhaptica pilikuanani, sp. nov. (Kaua‘i), Spheterista huakunana, sp. nov. (O‘ahu), Spheterista hiwakakahi, sp. nov. (Kaua‘i), and Spheterista hakeaiki, sp. nov. (O‘ahu). With the possible exception of S. hakeaiki, all species appear to be single-island endemics. In addition, Pararrhaptica pycnomias (Meyrick), syn. nov. (O‘ahu), is treated as a junior synonym of Pararrhaptica notocosma (Meyrick) (O‘ahu), Macraesthetica Meyrick is transferred from Eucosmini to Olethreutini, and Macraesthetica semicinereana (Swezey), comb. nov. (Hawai‘i), is transferred from Nuritamburia Koçak & Kemal. A conservation status is proposed for each of the newly described species.","PeriodicalId":259893,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131267091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A New Host Plant Record Helps to Understand the Geographic Distribution of a Neotropical Geometrid Moth (Geometridae)","authors":"H. Vargas","doi":"10.18473/lepi.77i2.a8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18473/lepi.77i2.a8","url":null,"abstract":"The spatial distribution of the resources that species are able to exploit limits their distribution ranges, while other abiotic and biotic factors constrain their occurrence within these limits (Quinn et al. 1997). The geographic ranges of host-specialized phytophagous insects, such as many members of Lepidoptera, strongly depend on the presence and abundance of their host plants in suitable habitats (Kozlov 2002, Neu et al. 2021). Therefore, detailed knowledge of host plant ranges of these organisms allows understanding their geographic ranges better (Basset et al. 2022), to forecast eventual shifts in their distribution patterns due to environmental changes (Schweiger et al. 2008) and to plan conservation practices (Clarke 2022). The distribution range of the Neotropical geometrid moth Pero obtusaria Prout, 1928 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) extends from the Andes of southern Ecuador to the Atacama Desert of northern Chile (Poole 1987, Brehm & Fiedler 2005, Vargas & Hausmann 2008). In contrast, the occurrence of its only recorded host plant, the shrub Pluchea chingoyo (Kunth) DC. (Asteraceae) (Vargas 2011), is restricted between northwestern Peru and northern Chile (Moreira-Muñoz et al. 2016, Vilcapoma & Beltrán 2018). The Ecuadorian records of this moth clearly exceed the geographic range of its host plant, a pattern that could result from the mapping of vagrant adults or incomplete knowledge of the host plant range (Döring & Hoffman 2004). If records from southern Ecuador are based on locally reared moths instead of vagrants, P. obtusaria should be able to use at least one additional host plant whose geographic range includes this area. The aim of this contribution is to provide a new host plant record that helps to understand better the geographic distribution of this geometrid moth. The specimens examined in this study were reared from folivorous larvae collected in November, 2020 using a beating sheet on the shrub Baccharis salicifolia (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers. (Asteraceae) at about 1500 m elevation in the Livilcar Ravine (18° 33' 04\"S, 69° 45'53\"W), Arica Province, northern Chile. The specimens are deposited in the “Colección Entomológica de la Universidad de Tarapacá” (IDEA), Arica, Chile. Genomic DNA was extracted from two legs of an adult using the QIAamp Fast DNA Tissue Kit, following the manufacturer’s instructions. DNA purification, PCR amplification and sequencing of the barcode region (Hebert et al. 2003) with the primers LCO1490 and HCO2198 (Folmer et al. 1994) were performed at Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 77(2), 2023, 129–131","PeriodicalId":259893,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122313413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Host Plant Mediated Differences in Papilio rutulus Lucas Larval Growth (Papilionidae)","authors":"R. Dowell, J. Scriber","doi":"10.18473/lepi.77i2.a3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18473/lepi.77i2.a3","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT. Average development times differed significantly among the test plants and ranged from 27.9 days on Populus nigra to 61.5 days on Ligustrum japonicum. Average pupal mass differed significantly among the test plants and varied from 1330 mg on Prunus serotina to 740 mg on Fraxinus latifolia. There was a significant negative relationship between developmental time and percent larval survival and a significant positive relationship between larval survival and pupal mass. Fast larval development on a plant meant higher survival and heavier pupae. The growth rate of Papilio rutulus larvae varied from a high of 0.256 mg/day on Populus nigra to a low of 0.143 mg/day on Populus alba and 0.126 mg/day on Alnus tenuifolia. The larvae were able to extend their development time on some plants like Alnus tenuifolia and Prunus ilicifolia to produce heavier pupae. Biochemical flexibility in larval survival, developmental time and pupal mass allow P. rutulus larvae to utilize a wide variety of native and introduced plants and to colonize large areas in California with few to no native Populus or Salix hosts including urban areas with extensive plantings of ornamental plants and scattered individual apple and stone fruit trees, and the 651,000+ hectares of commercial California almond, stone fruit and apples. Selection of the host plants with the fastest development times allows P. rutulus to survive at high altitude areas in which there are otherwise too few heat units to allow their offspring to attain the pupal stage and overwinter.","PeriodicalId":259893,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114177958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Homochlodes Hulst, 1896, a Single Species in the United States and Canada (Geometridae, Ennominae)","authors":"Tanner A. Matson, Hugh D. Mcguinness","doi":"10.18473/lepi.77i2.a6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18473/lepi.77i2.a6","url":null,"abstract":"The three species of Homochlodes Hulst of the eastern United States and Canada are recognized as a single species: Homochlodes fritillaria (Guenée, [1858]). Homochlodes disconventa (Walker, 1860) rev. stat. and Homochlodes lactispargaria (Walker, 1861) rev. stat. are re-synonymized with Homochlodes fritillaria. The recognition of H. fritillaria as a single taxon is supported by DNA (COI) barcodes, lack of disambiguating genitalic characters, and highly variable adult markings (Fig. 4) that do not consistently differentiate the currently recognized species. The adult variation, genetic data, and taxonomic history of this genus north of Mexico are discussed.","PeriodicalId":259893,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134563694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Larval and Pupal Silk Variation in the Indian Meal Moth (Plodia interpunctella): the Impact of Overcrowding and Temperature","authors":"Toshita V. Barve, R. K. Godfrey, Caroline G. Storer, A. Kawahara","doi":"10.18473/lepi.77i2.a5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18473/lepi.77i2.a5","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT. The Indian meal moth (Plodia interpunctella) is becoming an important biological model to study silk. While there are many potential applications to materials science and medicine, many aspects of silk production in this species remain unknown. Here we characterize the silk of P. interpunctella by measuring the width of larval wandering and pupal silk strands and find that the latter is significantly thicker than the former. We also report intraspecific variation in pupal silk production in our lab-reared colony with a very small number of individuals forgoing pupal silk production entirely (< 4%). Overcrowding had no effect on silk formation, but exposure to elevated temperature reduced pupal silk production.","PeriodicalId":259893,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130115100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New Occurrence of the Spodoptera litura (Fabricius) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Infestation on Cocoa in India","authors":"N. T, Madhu, R., Thava Prakasa Pandian, S., E. Apshara, A., Bhavishya, Josephrajkumar, J. B., N. Kumar, P., Santhosh Kumar","doi":"10.18473/lepi.77i2.a4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18473/lepi.77i2.a4","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT. Spodoptera litura (Fabricius) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a highly polyphagous insect pest, which inflicts serious economic damage on many agricultural and horticultural crops globally. During our recent surveillance surveys, an unusual defoliation was noticed by a caterpillar pest on cocoa saplings at ICAR - Central Plantation Crops Research Institute, Regional Station, Vittal farm, Karnataka, India. Morphological identification and molecular characterization using mitochondrial cytochrome-c-oxidase (COI) gene confirmed the collected insect samples as S. litura. Hitherto, this species was only known to infest Leucaena leucocephala (CABI), a shade tree of cocoa plantations in Indonesia. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first record of infestation by tobacco cut worm on cocoa in India. Consequently, solarization of rooting medium has been suggested for the destruction of the quiescent pupal stage.","PeriodicalId":259893,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132660658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On Tatochila autodice ernestae (Pieridae) in the Arid Andes of Northern Chile","authors":"","doi":"10.18473/lepi.77i1.a5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18473/lepi.77i1.a5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":259893,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115720709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Manuscript Reviewers for 2022 (Volume 76)","authors":"","doi":"10.18473/lepi.77i1.a7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18473/lepi.77i1.a7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":259893,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131451492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"First Comprehensive Description of Salt Marsh Skipper (Panoquina panoquin) (Hesperiidae) Natural History: Confirmation of a Second Host Plant In Virginia Salt Marshes","authors":"Logan M. Rakes, Matthias Leu","doi":"10.18473/lepi.77i1.a1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18473/lepi.77i1.a1","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT. In a rapidly changing world, a complete understanding of a butterfly species' natural history and information about each of the life stages from egg to adult is more important than ever. For many butterfly species, records on life history strategies and habitat requirements are often lacking, especially for immature stages. The salt marsh skipper (Panoquina panoquin) is one such example of an understudied species. As a specialist of salt marshes, studying these immature stages is important for understanding how this species interacts with and uses its habitat. The goal of this study was to fill in gaps in our knowledge of the natural history and habitat preferences of the salt marsh skipper. We conducted field surveys of ovipositing females in three Virginia coastal marshes (5 sites) between May and October 2021. In doing so, we characterized host plant use and oviposition microhabitat. We also tracked eggs and larvae to assess survival in relation to natal host plant. We observed the oviposition of 32 eggs, 15 of which were on Distichlis spicata and 17 on Spartina alterniflora. All life stages used S. alterniflora, including feeding by larvae, confirming this species as a novel host plant. S. alterniflora was the most abundant grass in egg plots and we found no difference between random and egg plot microhabitat. In the microhabitat analysis, we found that host plant use was largely associated with the more abundant of the two grasses in a plot. D. spicata, however, was preferred in cases of up to 26% more S. alterniflora cover relative to D. spicata. Lastly, we documented an overall successful hatching rate of 19% with equal risk of egg mortality on both host plants. While our results still indicate that the salt marsh skipper is a specialist, it has a broader range of habitat and might be able to cope with marsh decline better than previously thought.","PeriodicalId":259893,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115898000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}