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Issue: Vol. 2117 No. 1: 25 May. 2009
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2009-05-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2117.1.7
Page range: 65–68
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 13

Rediscovery and redescription of Hystrichophora loricana (Grote) (Tortricidae: Olethreutinae)

Colorado State University, Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523
University of Illinois, Department of Entomology, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, Illinois 61801
2727 Running Creek Drive, Florence, Kentucky 41042
Lepidoptera Tortricidae Olethreutinae

Abstract

Here we provide information on the recently rediscovered Hystrichophora loricana (Grote) (Fig. 1). Previously known only from the male Holotype (Fig. 2), H. loricana was brought to the attention of the second author after a brief description of the species was published in “Olethreutine moths of the Midwestern United States” (Gilligan et al., 2008). The second author has observed and collected H. loricana over the last 15 years at two locations in Coles County, Illinois, usually in association with Orbexilum onobrychis (Nuttall) Rydberg (Fabaceae). Subsequent searches for stands of this plant in Kentucky by the third author led to discovery of a colony of H. loricana and collection of the first female. This paper provides the first biological notes on this species, as well as the first complete description of the adult and male and female genitalia.

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