Crypsicharis Meyrick, 1890
Crypsicharis Meyrick, 1890. Descriptions of Australian Lepidoptera. Part I. Xyloryctidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 13: 23–81 [24]. Type species: Crypsicharis neocosma Meyrick, 1890 by monotypy.
Crypsicharis Meyrick, 1890 [Cryptophasidae]. Fletcher, T. B., 1929, A list of generic names used for Microlepidoptera. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture of India, 11: 1-244 [60].
Crypsicharis Meyrick. Common, 1990, Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press. 227-230 [228].
Crypsicharis Meyrick, 1890. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [86].
Crypsicharis Meyrick, 1890. 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].
Crypsicharis Meyrick, 1890. 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 1890
Crypsicharis, n.g.
Head with appressed hairs; ocelli absent; tongue well-developed. Antennae moderate, in male filiform, ciliated with fascicles (2), basal joint moderately elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi very long, recurved, second joint with appressed scales, terminal joint shorter than second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, appressed to tongue. Thorax smooth. Abdomen moderate. Posterior tibiae rough-haired above. Forewings with vein 1 furcate towards base, 2 from 4/5, 3 from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to hind margin, 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, trapezoidal, apex round-pointed, costa in male with long pencil of hairs from base lying beneath inner margin of forewings, towards base below median and towards inner margin clothed with long hairs, 3 and 4 from a point, 5 parallel, 6 and 7 approximated towards base but widely separate, 8 connected with cell at a point before middle.
Doubtless an offshoot of Lichenaula.
Other references
Crypsicharis Meyrick contains three species including C. neocosma Meyr. (fig 23.7, which ranges from Mareeba, northern Queensland, to Scone, New South Wales, in both coastal and nland localities. (Common, 1990).
Description:
Head:
Thorax:
Abdomen:
Immature stages: The larvae web together several leaves of Eucalyptus and live communally in silk galleries within. (Common, 1990).
Distribution: New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia. Endemic. (Edwards, 2003).
Remarks:
Crypsicharis pudica = Hylypnes pudica
Crypsicharis semnospora = Lichenaula tholodes
The male antennae (at least in C. enthetica) are finely bipectinate, rather than ciliated in fascicles as Meyrick suggests. A fascicle is a bundle of cilia; these antennae, while certainly ciliate, have side-branches or pectinations, which are themselves finely but simply ciliate.
The male antennae (at least in C. enthetica) are finely bipectinate, rather than ciliated in fascicles as Meyrick suggests. A fascicle is a bundle of cilia; these antennae, while certainly ciliate, have side-branches or pectinations, which are themselves finely but simply ciliate.
_____________________________________
Crypsicharis enthetica Meyrick, 1922
.jpg)
♂, ANIC
♀, ANIC
Crypsicharis enthetica Meyrick, 1922. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia, 1910-1913, 27, Microlepidoptera. Arkiv för Zoologi 14: 1–13 [10]. Holotype NHRM ♀, Bellenden Ker, Qld.
Crypsicharis enthetica Meyrick, 1922. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [86].
Crypsicharis enthetica Meyrick, 1922. 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].
Crypsicharis enthetica Meyrick, 1922. 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 1922
Crypsicharis enthetica n. sp. — ♀ 22 mm. Head whitish, sidetufts tinged with brownish above, collar light brownish. Palpi whitish, second joint slightly brownish-tinged except towards apex. Thorax grey, patagia lighter. Abdomen whitish. Forewings rather elongate, moderate, somewhat dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen straight, rather oblique; 8 to apex; white, sprinkled with light ochreous-brown except along costa, dorsal half tinged whitish-ochreous, dorsal area beneath fold more thickly irrorated with light brown; plical and second discal stigmata forming small brown spots; a thick inwards-oblique brown streak from dorsum at 2/3 nearly to middle of disc, rather expanded on dorsum; a marginal series of brown dots round apex and termen: cilia white, outer half on termen pale ochreous, on tornus wholly pale ochreous. Hindwings with 6 and 7 remote at base; whitish-grey-ochreous; cilia whitish-ochreous.
Queensland: Bellenden Ker. — 1 ex. Type Mus. Stockholm. Very like neocosma, but in that species the oblique streak of forewings rises from near tornus, and vein 8 runs to costa.
♂ Crypsicharis enthetica head, gvc12461, Herveys Range, Queensland. Collected by Graeme Cocks. NB the finely ciliated bipectinate antennae.
Diagnosis:
Description:
Head:
Thorax:
♂ Crypsicharis enthetica wing venation
Abdomen:
♂ Crypsicharis enthetica, male genitalia, K302, Kuranda. Collected by David Rentz.
♂ Crypsicharis enthetica, aedeagus, K302, Kuranda. Collected by David Rentz.
Food plants:
Flight period: June, August, January.
Distribution: Queensland. Endemic. (Edwards, 2003).
Remarks:
Crypsicharis neocosma Meyrick 1890
♂ - WA, 25 miles E of Eucla, 19. Mar. 1968, I.F.B. Common M.S. Upton leg. (ANIC).
Crypsicharis neocosma Meyrick, 1890. Descriptions of Australian Lepidoptera. Part I. Xyloryctidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 13: 23–81 [45]. Syntype(s) BMNH 2♂, Brisbane, Qld.
Crypsicharis neocosma Meyr. Turner, 1898. The Xyloryctidae of Queensland. Annals of the Queensland Museum 4: 1–32 [21].
Crypsicharis neocosma M. [Cryptophasidae]. Fletcher, T. B., 1929, A list of generic names used for Microlepidoptera. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture of India, 11: 1-244 [60].
Crypsicharis neocosma Meyr. Common, Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press. 227-230 [228].
Crypsicharis neocosma Meyrick, 1890. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [86].
Crypsicharis neocosma. Choe, J.C., and Crespi, B.J., 1997, The evolution of social behavior in insects and arachnids, Cambridge University Press, , 1-552 [413, Table 20-1, Sociality in Lepidoptera].
Crypsicharis neocosma Meyrick, 1890. 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].
Original description, Meyrick 1890
Cryps. neocosma, n. sp.
Male 18-19mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax whitish-ochreous, slightly brownish-tinged. Abdomen whitish. Legs brownish-ochreous, posterior pair whitish. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, hind margin sinuate, oblique; whitish-ochreous, becoming whitish towards costa, pale brownish towards inner margin, posteriorly with a few scattered brown scales; a fuscous or dark fuscous dot on submedian fold before middle, and a second in disc at 2/3; a triangular inwardly oblique cloudy fuscous or dark fuscous spot on inner margin immediately before anal angle: cilia whitish-ochreous, terminal half pale fuscous, on anal angle wholly light fuscous. Hindwings whitish, apex more or less tinged with grey; cilia whitish.
Brisbane, Queensland; two specimens in September.
Other references
CRYPSICHARIS, Meyr.
Crypsicharis neocosma, Meyr. Meyrick, 45. Male and female17-23 mm.
Manly, near Brisbane, rather common; also from Charters Towers. From larvae found by Mr. Illidge and Mr. Dodd spinning together leaves of Eucalyptus. (Turner, 1898).
Fig 23.7: Common, 1990
Crypsicharis Meyrick contains three species, including C. neocosma Meyr, (Fig 23.7) which ranges from Mareeba, northern Queensland, to Scone, New South Wales, in both coastal and inland localities. The larvae web together several leaves of Eucalyptus and live communally in silk galleries within. (Common, 1990).
Diagnosis:
Description:
Head:
Thorax:
Abdomen:
Food plants: Larva living communally in bunch of leaves tied with silk. Larval foodplants: Eucalyptus meliodora, E. drepanphylla sp. (Myrtaceae). (Edwards, 2003).
Flight period: September, March.
Distribution: New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia. Endemic. (Edwards, 2003).
Remarks:
Crypsicharis triplaca Lower, 1923
ANIC
Crypsicharis triplaca Lower, 1923. Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 47: 54–57 [56]. Syntype(s) SAMA 2♂, Duaringa and Toowoomba, Qld.
Crypsicharis triplaca Lower, 1923. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [86].
Crypsicharis triplaca Lower, 1923. 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].
Crypsicharis triplaca Lower, 1923. 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, Lower 1923
Crypsicharis triplaca, n. sp.
♂, 22 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax snow-white, second joint of palpi externally fuscous, antennal ciliations 3, palpi with fuscous anterior band. Abdomen dull ochreous. Legs fuscous, posterior pair whitish. Forewings elongate, moderate, costa gently arched, termen oblique; white, with fuscous markings; a moderate somewhat ovoid spot above dorsum on fold, in middle; an erect, moderately-thick, fascia-like streak, from dorsum before tornus, reaching three-quarters across wing, upper half divided into two roundish spots; cilia whitish, terminal half fuscous. Hindwings and cilia grey-whitish, cilia tinged with fuscous near base.
Hab.- Duaringa and Toowoomba, Queensland; two specimens in October.
Diagnosis:
Description:
Head:
Thorax:
Abdomen:
Food plants:
Flight period: October.
Distribution: New South Wales, Queensland. Endemic. (Edwards, 2003).
Remarks: