Xerocrates Meyrick, 1917
Xerocrates Meyrick, 1917. Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2 (2–3): 33–64, 65–96 [54]. Type species: Cryptophaga proleuca Meyrick, 1890 by original designation.
Xerocrates Meyrick, 1917. Fletcher, T. B., 1929, A list of generic names used for Microlepidoptera. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture of India, 11: 1-244 [237].
Xerocrates Meyrick, 1917. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [88].
Xerocrates Meyrick, 1917. 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 1 May 2010].
Xerocrates Meyrick, 1917. 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, Meyrick 1917
Xerocrates, n. g.
Head with appressed scales; ocelli small, inferior; tongue absent. Antennae 2/3, in ♂ bipectinated, basal joint moderate, stout, without pecten. Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint reaching base of antennae, with appressed scales, terminal joint shorter than second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed. Thorax smooth beneath. Anterior tarsi longer than tibiae; posterior tibiae clothed with rough scales above. Forewings with 1b furcate, 2 from 4/5, 3 from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to termen, 11 from beyond middle. Hindwings over 1, ovate, cilia 1/5; 3 and 4 connate, 5 parallel, 6 and 7 approximated at base.
Type proleuca Meyr.
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Distribution: South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia. Endemic. (Edwards, 2003).
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Xerocrates proleuca (Meyrick, 1890)
Xerocrates proleuca, ♂, WA, 73 miles N of Northampton, 22. Apr. 1968, I.F.B. Common M.S. Upton leg. (ANIC). [AMO].
Xerocrates proleuca, ♀, WA, 5 km W of Quairading Lat. 32' 01'' S Long. 117' 22'' E, 1. Nov. 1992, E.S. Nielsen E.D. Edwards leg. (ANIC). [AMO].
Cryptophaga proleuca Meyrick, 1890, Descriptions of Australian Lepidoptera. Part I. Xyloryctidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 13: 23–81 [31]. Holotype BMNH ♂, Quorn, SA.
Cryptophaga proleuca Meyr. Lower, 1894: New Australian Heterocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 18: 77-113 [89].
Cryptophaga proleuca. Illidge, 1895: Xylorycts, or timber moths. Queensland Natural History Society Transactions, 1, 29-34.
Cryptophaga proleuca Meyr. Lower, 1896: A catalogue of Victorian Heterocera. Part xix. The Victorian Naturalist, 12: 149-152.
Xerocrates proleuca Meyr. Meyrick 1917, Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2 (2–3): 33–64, 65–96 [54].
Xerocrates proleuca 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 [237].
Cryptophasa proleuca Diakonoff, 1948, Treubia 19: 191, t. 6 fig. 6; junior primary homonym of Cryptophasa proleuca (Meyrick, 1890) = Cryptophasa antalba Diakonoff, 1966.
Cryptophasa proleuca Diakonoff, 1948. Diakonoff, 1966. Records And Descriptions Of South Asiatic Microlepidoptera, Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 109:3, 49-88, Fig. 1-44, T. 1; junior primary homonym of Cryptophasa proleuca (Meyrick, 1890) = Cryptophasa antalba Diakonoff, 1966.
Xerocrates proleuca Meyrick 1917. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [88].
Xerocrates proleuca Meyrick 1917. 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 1 May 2010].
Xerocrates proleuca Meyrick 1917. 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, Meyrick 1890
Crypt. proleuca, n. sp.
Male 19 mm. Head and palpi ochreous-whitish, slightly sprinkled with ferruginous. Antennae fuscous, mixed with whitish. Thorax ochreous-whitish, irrorated with brown. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, posterior margin of segments bright orange. Legs ochreous-fuscous, middle and posterior tibiae whitish. Forewings oblong, costa slightly arched, apex rounded, hind margin oblique, slightly rounded; 2 from ¾; fuscous, towards inner and hind margin sprinkled with whitish and dark fuscous; a moderate sharply-marked snow-white streak along costa from near base to 5/6; attenuated anteriorly to a point, beneath bordered by a broad ochreous-brown band from base to ¾; an ill-defined small roundish dark fuscous spot beneath middle of disc, suffusedly margined with whitish, and a second, unmargined, in disc at 4/5: cilia fuscous, base sprinkled with white. Hindwings with veins 6 and 7 separate; fuscous, rather darker posteriorly; cilia whitish, with a subbasal dark fuscous line.
Quorn, South Australia; one specimen in October.
Other references
Cryptophaga proleuca, Meyr.
I have seen specimens taken at Kewell, Victoria. (Lower, 1894).
C. proleuca, Meyr. (loc. cit., 31, 1889).
Melbourne. (Lower, 1896).
Cryptophasa antalba nom. nov.
Cryptophasa proleuca Diakonoff, 1948, Treubia 19 : 191, t. 6 fig. 8 [sic]; nec Meyrick, 1890, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austral. 13 : 31 (Cryptophaga).
As the generic name Cryptophaga Meyrick, 1890, is an emendation of Cryptophasa Lewin, 1805, I am now satisfied that the above name proposed by myself is invalid, being a junior primary homonym; therefore I am proposing the above new name for this species. (Diakonoff, 1966).
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