A revision of the new world plant-mining moths of the family Opostegidae (Lepidoptera:Nepticuloidea) / / Donald R. Davis and Jonas R. Stonis.

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A revision of the new world plant-mining moths of the family Opostegidae (Lepidoptera:Nepticuloidea) / / Donald R. Davis and Jonas R. Stonis.

Davis, Donald R. (Donald Ray)

A revision of the new world plant-mining moths of the family Opostegidae (Lepidoptera:Nepticuloidea) / / Donald R. Davis and Jonas R. Stonis.

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2007.

212 p. : ill ; 28 cm.

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Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0718/2007021148.html

Online Publication http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.625

Smithsonian contributions to zoology ; -- no. 625

The systematics, morphology, and distributions are summarized for the 91 species and 2 subspecies of New World Opostegidae. A phylogenetic analysis using the 'parsimony rachet' in Winclada and based on 34 morphological characters for the seven currently recognized world genera indicates the monotypic Chilean genus, Notiopostega, to be the basal taxon. Monophyly of the Nepticuloidea (Nepticulidae + Opostegidae) is well supported by nine morphological synapomorphies. Several synapomorphies distinguish the Opostegidae from all other Lepidoptera. Principal among these are the presence of a single, spinose seta on the larval mandible, adult wing venation extremely reduced with all veins unbranched, frenulum lost in both sexes, antennal flagellomeres each typically with 3 sets of ascoid sensillae, and a pedunculate, typically elliptical, cucullar lobe bearing a well-developed pectinifer on the valva of the male genitalia. Larval biologies of only two New World species are known. Larvae of both species mine primarily the cambium layer in woody plant stems. Results from light trap sampling at the La Selva Biological Station in Heredia Province, Costa Rica, indicated that adult Opostegidae were much more abundant in canopy habitats compared with near-ground level. Four genera (Neopostega new genus, 5 species; Notiopostega Davis, 1 species; Opostegoides Kozlov, 1 species; and Pseudopostega Kozlov, 84 species and 2 subspecies) are recognized for the New World. One genus (Neopostega) and the following 68 species and 2 subspecies are described as new: Neopostega asymmetra, Neopostega distola, Neopostega falcata, Neopostega longispina, Neopostega petila, Pseudopostega acrodicra, Pseudopostega acuminate, Pseudopostega apotoma, Pseudopostega attenuate, Pseudopostega beckeri, Pseudopostega bicornuta, Pseudopostega bidorsalis, Pseudopostega brachybasis, Pseudopostega breviapicula, Pseudopostega brevifurcata, Pseudopostega brevivalva, Pseudopostega caulifurcata, Pseudopostega clavata, Pseudopostega colognatha, Pseudopostega concave, Pseudopostega conicula, Pseudopostega constricta, Pseudopostega contigua, Pseudopostega crassifurcata, Pseudopostega curtarama, Pseudopostega denticulate, Pseudopostega didyma, Pseudopostega diskusi, Pseudopostega divaricata, Pseudopostega dorsalis dorsalis, Pseudopostega dorsalis fasciata, Pseudopostega duplicate, Pseudopostega ecuadoriana, Pseudopostega ferruginea, Pseudopostega floridensis, Pseudopostega fumida, Pseudopostega galapagosae, Pseudopostega gracilis, Pseudopostega lateriplicata, Pseudopostega latiapicula, Pseudopostega latifurcata latifurcata, Pseudopostega latifurcata apoclina, Pseudopostega latisaccula, Pseudopostega lobata, Pseudopostega longifurcata, Pseudopostega longipedicella, Pseudopostega microacris, Pseudopostega mignonae, Pseudopostega monstruosa, Pseudopostega obtuse, Pseudopostega ovatula, Pseudopostega parakempella, Pseudopostega paraplicatella, Pseudopostega plicatella, Pseudopostega resimafurcata, Pseudopostega rotunda, Pseudopostega sectila, Pseudopostega serrata, Pseudopostega spatulata, Pseudopostega sublobata, Pseudopostega subtila, Pseudopostega suffuscula, Pseudopostega tanygnatha, Pseudopostega tenuifurcata, Pseudopostega texana, Pseudopostega triangularis, Pseudopostega truncate, Pseudopostega tucumanae, Pseudopostega turquinoensis, Pseudopostega uncinata

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Opostegidae -- Classification.

Stonis, Jonas R.

Smithsonian contributions to zoology ; no. 625.

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