Abstract
Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914 is treated as a genus of the family Autostichidae based on the recent study. Fifty species are transferred from the genus Cryptolechia to Meleonoma, and eight Meleonoma species groups are proposed for the taxonomic convenience based on both molecular data and morphological study. Eight species groups include: the malacobyrsa group, the segregnatha group, the annulignatha group, the fasciptera group, the jigongshanica group, the dentivalvata group, the facialis group, and the acutiuscula group. Diagnostic characters and representative illustrations of each species group are provided. A discussion on the proposed species groups is given, and a checklist of all the 88 described Meleonoma species is provided.
References
Christoph, H.T. (1882) Neue Lepidopteren des Amurgebietes. Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalists de Moscou, 57 (1), 5−47.
Clarke, J.F.G. (1965) Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Museum (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick. Vol. 5. Trustees of the British Museum Natural History, London, 581 pp.
Diakonoff, A. (1951) Entomological results from the Swedish expedition 1934 to Burma and British India. Lepidoptera collected by Rene Malaise. Microlepidopera I. Arkiv for Zoologi Stockholm, 3, 59−94.
Guindon, S., Dufayard, J.F., Lefort. V., Anisimova, M., Hordijk, W. & Gascuel, O. (2010) New algorithms and methods to estimate Maximum-Likelihood phylogenies: assessing the performance of PhyML 3.0. Systematic Biology, 59, 307−321.
https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syq010
Heikkila, M., Mutanen, M., Kekkonen, M. & Kaila, L. (2014) Morphology reinforces proposed molecular phylogenetic affinities: a revised classification for Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera). Cladistics, 30, 563−589.
https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12064
Katoh, K. & Standley, D.M. (2013) MAFFT multiple sequence alignment software version 7: improvements in performance and usability. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 30, 772−780.
https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/mst010
Kitajima, Y. & Sakamaki, Y. (2019) Three new species of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from Japan. Lepidoptera Science, 70 (2), 33–46.
Kumar, S., Stecher, G. & Tamura, K. (2016) MEGA7: Molecular evolutionary genetics analysis version 7.0 for bigger datasets. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 33, 1870–1874.
https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msw054
Li, H.H. & Wang, S.X. (2002) A study on the genus Meleonoma Meyrick from China, with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera: Cosmopterigidae). Acta Entomologica sinica, 45 (2), 230−233.
Li, H.H. & Wang, X.P. (2004) New species of Meleonoma Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Cosmopterigidae) from China. Entomotaxonomia, 26 (1), 35−40.
Liu, Y.Q. (1981) Oecophoridae. In: Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica (Ed.), Iconographia Heterocerorum Sinicorum, Science Press, Beijing. 1, 14−15 + 23−25, pls. 3, 5.
Lvovsky, A.L. (2010) A new genus of broad-winged moths of the family Cryptolechiidae (Acryptolechia, Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea) from southeastern Asia. Entomological Review, 90 (2), 255–258.
https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873810020119
Lvovsky, A.L. (2015) Composition of the subfamily Periacminae (Lepidoptera, Lypusidae) with descriptions of new and little known species of the Genus Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914 from south, East, and south-East Asia. Entomological Review, 95 (6), 766–778.
https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873815060111
Matsumura, S. (1931) 6000 Illustrated Insects of Japan-Empire. Tôkô Shoin, Tokyo, 1497 pp.
Meyrick, E. (1894) On a collection of Lepidoptera from Upper Burma. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1894, 1−29.
Meyrick, E. (1905) Descriptions of Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 16, 580−619.
Meyrick, E. (1906) Descriptions of Australian Tineina. Transactions and proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, 30, 33−66.
Meyrick, E. (1910a) Descriptions of Indian Micro-lepidoptera. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 20, 143−168.
Meyrick, E. (1910b) Descriptions of Malayan Micro-Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 4, 430−478.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1910.tb01179.x
Meyrick, E. (1910c) Notes and descriptions of Indian Micro-lepidoptera. Records the Indian Museum, 5, 217−232.
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.10499
Meyrick, E. (1914) Exotic Microlepidoptera, Marlborough. Vol. 1. Printed by Taylor and Francis, London, 64 pp. [pp. 225−288]
Meyrick, E. (1915) Exotic Microlepidoptera, Marlborough. Vol. 1. Printed by Taylor and Francis, London, 32 pp. [pp. 289−320]
Meyrick, E. (1918) Exotic Microlepidoptera, Marlborough. Vol. 2. Printed by Taylor and Francis, London, 32 pp. [pp. 193−224]
Meyrick, E. (1921) Exotic. Microlepidoptera, Marlborough. Vol. 2. Printed by Taylor and Francis, London, 32 pp. [pp. 385−416]
Meyrick, E. (1922) Lepidoptera Heterocera. Fam. Oecophoridae. In: Wytsman, P. (Ed.), Genera Insectorum. Vol. 180. L. Desmet-Verteneuil [etc.], Bruxelles, pp. 1–224.
Meyrick, E. (1930) Exotic Microlepidoptera, Marlborough. Vol. 3. Printed by Taylor and Francis, London, 191 pp. [pp. 545−640]
Meyrick, E. (1931) Exotic Microlepidoptera, Marlborough. Vol. 4. Printed by Taylor and Francis, London, 160 pp. [pp. 33−192]
Meyrick, E. (1934) Exotic Microlepidoptera, Marlborough. Vol. 4. Printed by Taylor and Francis, London, 96 pp. [pp. 449−544]
Meyrick, E. (1935a) Exotic Microlepidoptera, Marlborough. Vol. 4. Printed by Taylor and Francis, London, 32 pp. [pp. 545−576]
Meyrick, E. (1935b) List of Microlepidoptera of Chekiang, Kiangsu and Hunan. In: Caradja, A. & Meyrick, E. (Eds.), Materialien zu einer Microlepidopteran Fauna der chinesischen Provinzen Kiangsu, Chekiang und Hunan. Friedlander & Sohn, Berlin, pp. 44–96.
Moriuti, S. (1982) Oecophoridae. In: Inoue, H., Sugi, S., Kuroko, H., Moriuti, S., Kawabe, A. & Owada, M. (Eds.), Moths of Japan. Vol. 1 & 2. Kodansha, Tokyo, pp. 245–254 & 204–206, pls. 11–12.
Moriuti, S., Saito, T. & Lewvanich, A. (1985) Thai species of Periacma Meyrick and its allied two new genera (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae). Bulletin of the University of Osaka Prefecture, (B), 37, 19–50.
Nye, I.W.B. & Fletcher, D.S. (1991) The Generic Names of Moths of the World. Vol. 6. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 368 pp.
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.119516
Park, K.T. (1983) Oecophoridae. In: Shin, Y.H., Park, K.T. & Nam, S.H. (Eds.), Illustrated Flora and Fauna of Korea. Vol. 27. Insecta. 9. Ministry of Education, Seoul, pp. 454−468.
Park, K.T. & Park, Y.M. (2016) Two new species of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Lypusidae) from Korea. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 9, 485−488.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japb.2016.07.006
Posada, D. (2008) jModelTest: Phylogenetic model averaging. Molecular Biology Evolution, 25 (7), 1253−1256.
https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msn083
Ronquist, F., Teslenko, M., van der Mark, P., Ayres, D.L., Darling, A., Höhna, S., Larget, B., Liu, L., Suchard, M.A. & Huelsenbeck, J.P. (2012) MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian phylogenetic inference and model choice across a large model space. Systematic Biology, 61, 539–542.
https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/sys029
Viette, P.E.L. (1954) Nouveaux Tineoidea (s.l.) de Madagascar (Lep.). Annales de la Société entomologique de France, 123, 75−114.
Wang, Q.Y. & Li, H.H. (2020) Phylogeny of the superfamily Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera: Obtectomera), with an exploratory application on geometric morphometrics. Zoologica Scripta, 00, 1−22. [published online, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zsc.12407]
Wang, S.X. (2003) A study of Cryptolechia Zeller (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) in China (I), with descriptions of fifteen new species. Entomologia Sinica, 10 (3), 195−213.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7917.2003.tb00384.x
Wang, S.X. (2004) A study of Cryptolechia Zeller (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) in China (II): Species from Guizhou Province). Entomologia Sinica, 11 (3), 219−233.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7917.2004.tb00242.x
Wang, S.X. (2006a) The Cryptolechia Zeller (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) of China (III): Checklist and descriptions of new species. Zootaxa, 1195 (1), 1–29.
Wang, S.X. (2006b) Oecophoridae of China (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Science Press, Beijing, 258 pp.
Wang, S.X. & Li, H.H. (2005) A new oecophorid genus and new species (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from China. Entomological News, 116 (3), 167−172.
Yin, A.H. & Wang, S.X. (2016a) Two new species in the genus Meleonoma Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from Taiwan. Entomotaxonomia, 38 (1), 24−28.
Yin, A.H. & Wang, S.X. (2016b) Taxonomic study of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick from Thailand (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea). ZooKeys, 571, 133–141.
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.571.6897
Zeller, P.C. (1852) Lepidoptera microptera quae J. A. Wahlberg in Caffrorum Terra Collegit. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, 73, 1−120.