Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Copidoris



Copidoris Meyrick, 1907


Copidoris Meyrick, 1907 [Plutellidae]. Descriptions of Australasian Micro-lepidoptera. XIX. Plutellidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 32: 47–150 [140]. Type species: Copidoris dimorpha Meyrick, 1907 by monotypy.
Copidostola Lower, 1897 [Gelechiadae]. A catalogue of Victorian Heterocera. Part xxiii–xxvi. The Victorian Naturalist, 14: 13–16, 45–48, 77–80, 117–120 [79] [nom. nud.; Lower described a valid Copidostola, also in 1879, in the Oecophoridae].
Copidoris Meyrick, 1907 [Cryptophasidae]. Fletcher, T. B., 1929, A list of generic names used for Microlepidoptera. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture of India,  11: 1-244 [55].
Copidoris Meyrick, 1907. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [86].
Copidoris Meyrick, 1907. Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex [accessed 5 April 2010].
Copidoris Meyrick, 1907. Edwards, E. D. (2003), Xyloryctinae. Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/XYLORYCTINAE [accessed 16 June 2010].

Original description, Meyrick, 1907
Copidoris, n.g.
Head loosely haired, sidetufts spreading; tongue developed. Antennae ¾, in ♂shortly ciliated, basal joint moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi very long, recurved, second joint with large rough projecting tuft of scales beneath, terminal joint as long as second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Posterior tibiae clothed with long hairs above. Fore wings with 1b furcate, upper fork little marked, 2 from 3/5, 3 from angle, 7 and 8 very long-stalked, 7 to costa, 9 and 10 from near 8, 11 from middle, secondary cell indicated. Hind wings 1, rounded-trapezoidal, cilia 4/5; 2 widely remote, 3 and 4 connate, 5 somewhat approximated, 6 and 7 short-stalked.
Apparently related to the European genus Cerostoma [Plutellidae].

Nomen nudum, Lower 1897
COPIDOSTOLA. Meyr.
981. C. dimorpha, Meyr. (MSS.)
Gisborne, Grampians.

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Distribution: New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia. Endemic. (Edwards, 2003).

Remarks: Copidostola: Published without description or indication; the only associated species, C. dimorpha, is itself an unavailable nomen nudum subsequently made available as Copidoris dimorpha Meyrick, 1907.


Placed by Lower in the Gelechiadae; by Meyrick; in the ?Xyloryctidae (pers. comm. K.Sattler); and the Oecophoridae by Gerardo Lamas (pers. comm.). (Pitkin & Jenkins, www.)

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Copidoris dimorpha Meyrick, 1907.


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Copidoris dimorpha Meyrick, 1907. Descriptions of Australasian Micro-lepidoptera. XIX. Plutellidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 32: 47–150 [141]. Syntype(s) BMNH 20♂♀, Sydney, NSW; Melbourne, Vic.
Copidostola dimorpha Lower, 1897. A catalogue of Victorian Heterocera. Part xxiii–xxvi. The Victorian Naturalist, 14: 13–16, 45–48, 77–80, 117–120 [79] [nom. nud.].
Copidoris dimorpha Meyrick, 1907 [Cryptophasidae]. Fletcher, T. B., 1929, A list of generic names used for Microlepidoptera. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture of India,  11: 1-244 [55].
Copidoris dimorpha Meyrick, 1907. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [86].
Copidoris dimorpha Meyrick, 1907. Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex [accessed 9 April 2010].
Copidoris dimorpha Meyrick, 1907. Edwards, E. D. (2003), Xyloryctinae. Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/XYLORYCTINAE [accessed 16 June 2010].

Original description, Meyrick 1907
C. dimorpha, n sp.
♂♀. 17-20 mm. Head ochreous-white. Palpi white, second joint with a brownish-ochreous median band, posterior edge of terminal joint dark fuscous. Antennae dark fuscous spotted with white. Thorax pale ochreous, centrally more or less suffused with white. Abdomen whitish. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex acute, termen faintly sinuate, extremely oblique; yellow-ochreous, along costa, dorsum, and termen, or sometimes wholly suffused with rather dark fuscous irrorated with white; usually a clear white median longitudinal streak from base to apex, but sometimes this is suffusedly mixed with fuscous: cilia fuscous sprinkled with whitish, at apex usually with a slender whitish bar. Hindwings grey-whitish, becoming light grey posteriorly; cilia white, at apex greyish.
Sydney, New South Wales; Melbourne, Victoria; in February and March, amongst scrub, apparently very local but plentiful where it occurs; twenty specimens.

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Flight period: February, March.
Distribution: New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia. Endemic. (Edwards, 2003).

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