Gomphoscopa Lower, 1901
Gomphoscopa Lower, 1901. Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 25: 63-98 [86] [objective replacement name for Pachycera Lower, 1893 with the same type species].
Pachycera Lower, 1893. [In Depressariidae]. New Australian Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17 (1): 146–185 [184]. Type species: Pachycera catoryctopsis Lower, 1893 by monotypy.
Gomphoscopa Lower, 1901 (senior objective synonym of Pachycera Lower) [Cryptophasidae]. Fletcher, T. B., 1929, A list of generic names used for Microlepidoptera. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture of India, 11: 1-244 [100].
Gomphoscopa Lower, 1901. = Pachycera Lower, 1893, nec Billberg, 1820. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [87].
Gomphoscopa Lower, 1901. 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 21 April 2010].
Gomphoscopa Lower, 1901. 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 17 June 2010].
Original description, Lower 1901
Gomphoscopa, n.g.
Head rather loosely haired. Antennae in male bidentate, especially on terminal half, ciliations (1), basal joint short. without pecten. Labial palpi extremely long, second joint considerably exceeding base of antennae, clothed with appressed scales, somewhat loose beneath, terminal joint slender, one-half of second recurved. Forewings elongate; 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex, 2 from before angle of cell, 3 from angle, 1 furcate at base. Hindwings over 1 elongate-ovate; cilia one-third; 3 and 4 connate, 5 widely remote from 4, nearer to 6.
Not very near any other genus known to me. The absence of pecten, extremely long palpi , termination of vein 7 in apex, and elongate markings would appear to have some relationship to Oenochroa, Meyr., yet the affinity is not clear.
The genus is formed for the reception of Pachycera catoryctopsis, Lower (Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., 184 (1893). The genus was not defined at the time of writing, and as name, Pachycera, is probably preoccupied, I adopt the above in place of it.
Pachycera Lower, 1893, is a junior homonym of Pachycera Billberg, 1820, Enumeratio Insect. Mus. G.J. Billberg: 68, - Insecta, Hemiptera. The objective replacement name is Gomphoscopa Lower 1901. (NHM).
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Gomphoscopa catoryctopsis (Lower, 1893)
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Pachycera catoryctopsis Lower, 1893. New Australian Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17 (1): 146–185 [184] [in Depressariidae]. Syntype(s) SAMA 4♂♀, Highbury and Blackwood, SA.
Gomphoscopa catoryctopsis Lower [Cryptophasidae]. Fletcher, T. B., 1929, A list of generic names used for Microlepidoptera. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture of India, 11: 1-244 [100, 158].
Gomphoscopa catoryctopsis (Lower, 1893). Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [87].
Gomphoscopa catoryctopsis (Lower, 1893). 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 21 April 2010].
Gomphoscopa catoryctopsis (Lower, 1893). 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 17 June 2010].
Original description, Lower 1893
Pachycera catoryctopsis, n. sp.
Male and female, 23-27. Head and antennae white, antennae beneath annulated with fuscous, palpi, thorax and legs ashy-grey-whitish, hairs of posterior legs yellowish-tinged, abdomen grey. Forewings moderate, costa gently arched, hind margin obliquely rounded; fuscous, suffusedly mixed with whitish; a white streak along costa from base to beyond middle, attenuated posteriorly and continued to near apex, the anterior portion containing a fine grey line, lower portion edged with a fine black line; an elongate white mark in middle of wing, outlined with black; a thick white streak from base along fold, suffusedly continued to near anal angle, partially edged below with a fine black line; all veins towards hindmargin sharply defined by black lines, interspaces filled with white; a hindmarginal row of black dots; cilia ashy-grey-whitish, tips darker. Hindwings grey; cilia white, with a darker line.
Highbury and Blackwood in March; four specimens. Resembles greatly Catoryctis tricrena, Meyr., one of the Xyloryctidae.
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