Volume 9 – 23 July 2015 A newsletter for the Pyraloidea fans

Editorial taining type images is AfroMoths (www.afro- the public page of GlobIZ (www.pyraloidea. .net). This leads me to a small request. org; database, search). Alternatively, Glo- Dear Pyraloidea fans, If your institution or an institution you know bIZ team members are able to make more I welcome you to this 9th edition of our has images of Pyraloidea types posted on refined searches in the login sections of the worldwide newsletter. the Web, please let me know and I will pro- site. Nevertheless, I would like to draw your The dissemination and databasing of tax- vide a list in a future edition of PP. attention to the publication of two ‘new’ taxa onomic information is crucial for the future of The references and nomenclatural acts of family rank, the Lathrotelinae Clarke (see our scientific endeavours and for society in published in papers on Pyraloidea are incor- Minet, 2015), originally described as a new family, and Guyanymphulini (see Heppner, general, although, as we all know, this lat- porated into GlobIZ as soon as the GlobIZ 2015) placed in Acentropinae. ter aspect is very poorly integrated in most team members become aware of them. Thus, one can search for them by year or author on On a personal note over the last year I people’s minds. GlobIZ (www.pyraloidea. org) is one important tool for the distribution of taxonomic information, and although not yet complete, it has become indispensable for anyone interested in Pyraloidea names. Other initiatives are for example Plazi (www.plazi.org), an association whose aim is to support and promote the development and service of persistent and openly acces- sible digital taxonomic literature. To help make digital data about our biodiversity openly available, institutions and concerned citizens of the world can sign the Bouchout Declaration (www.bouchoutdeclaration. org). Museums and other institutions that have posted images of their specimens, especially primary types onto the Web are also extremely important, and I thank Rob- ert Hoare for his commitment in this respect (see his contribution below). Regarding the primary types in the Geneva museum, I have been maintaining a list and I want to make it available on the Web with Bernard Landry in the Pyraloidea section of the Natural History Museum, London collections, in the images, eventually. Another Web site con- basement of Darwin Centre 2, the beautiful so-called Cocoon.

1 have not been in the field very much, but I more. One outstanding example is the An exciting new book have been able to work on three Pyraloidea revised family group Lathrotelinae (Minet, manuscripts and to increase the curatorial 2015), containing four genera with alto- A preliminary guide to the pyralid moths quality of our collection following a visit to the gether 37 described species. The latter were of Borneo, part 1. Thyridoidea and Pyra- BMNH, London, in October last year. Thus, formerly placed in Acentropinae and Spilo- loidea; sensu Regier J.C. et al., the Geneva Museum Pyraloidea collection melinae. Due to this change, the number of 2012, by Stephen Sutton, Henry Barlow and currently numbers close to 20,000 speci- species in the database actu- Terry Whitaker. Natural History Publications mens and slightly more than 2,000 species ally decreased to just below 4,000. (Borneo) Sdn Bhd in association with South- mostly identified to that level or to . Regarding the number of described pyra- dene Sdn Bhd (Kuala Lumpur). As usual I am very much grateful to the loid taxa included in GlobIZ, we certainly Photographs by Jonathan Brunton, Terry contributors of this issue of our newsletter, arrived in the saturation zone, which brings Whitaker & others. Images are copyright which you will no doubt find beautifully done us to the question of how to further develop of Southdene Sdn Bhd. Paradox Runtime and interesting. The references cited in the GlobIZ. We will discuss that during the next access by Victor Wah. QR coding by Biovis texts can be found in GlobIZ (www.pyra- months, keeping in mind the main goal of Informatics Sdn Bhd (Kuala Lumpur). Plates loidea.org) unless otherwise stated. As usual freely accessible data to support research layout by Ahmad Basir Omar, Lim Kooi Fong please don’t hesitate to recruit new pyraloid on pyraloids. and Banu Priya Kaliana Sundram. Printed in fans by disseminating this issue widely. Also, Thanks to all who contributed during the Taiwan. send any change of address before the next This A4 size 100 page book is in the final last 12 months and those who did not con- issue. Finally, if you would like to become stages of printing 250 copies as PP9 goes to tribute yet are sincerely invited to join our editor of PP, please do not hesitate to come press. The price is not yet fixed. This is Part team. forward and let me know. At this point I would 1 of 3 and covers the Thyridoidea and the gratefully pass it on to someone else. Pyraloidea; Pyralidae. Parts 2 & 3 will deal Matthias Nuss All my best, with the and should be available in early 2016. Bernard Landry The core of Part 1 is a set of 35 high qual- ity colour plates each with a capacity for 35 Update on recently half images of adult moths. Opposite each published Pyraloidea plate is a page of corresponding legends. The book is ring-bound to allow it to lie flat This issue was made possible with the literature on a laboratory bench when identifying spec- help of Les Catchick, James Hayden, imens. The plates are semi-matt to cut down Robert Hoare, Théo Léger, Houhun Li, My literature request to the ‘pyraloid on reflections. Richard Mally, Matthias Nuss, Eivind community’ in early April 2015 couldn’t be In this publication we do not revise gen- Palm, Mujie Qi, Alma Solis, and Stephen delivered to nine of the 110 recipients due era or provide formal descriptions of species. Sutton. to various reasons. We would therefore ask We do not consider genitalic structure The logo of The Pyraloid Planet was you to go through our “membership list” but only external features. It is an illustrated created by Florence Marteau of the at the end of the Newsletter and carefully guide, not a taxonomic monograph. We have Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Geneva, check your contact details. However, ten of included many images of morphotypes at or Switzerland, and the layout of this issue you replied and provided their recently pub- near the species level to give a launch pad was made by Corinne Charvet of the lished literature on Pyraloidea, along with for those who want to explore the Bornean same institution. the PDFs. Most of the 23 submitted refer- fauna further. Hopefully they will carry out ences were already gathered in GlobIZ, and the necessary generic revisions and species I added the few ones that were missing. descriptions to provide an organised frame- With the vast number of scientific arti- work for scientific study of this highly diverse superfamily. It looks like being as speciose in GlobIZ News 2015 cles being published nowadays, a particu- Borneo as anywhere in the world. larly important article is easily overlooked. Although this volume is largely concerned The Global Information System on Pyra- Therefore please continue to forward any with the family Pyralidae of the superfamily loidea (GlobIZ) is still growing in terms of the pyraloid-related published literature to me or quantity of taxa. During the last 12 months, Pyraloidea, we also include species in the the other editors of GlobIZ so that we can the number of valid species included in the superfamily Thyridoidea, which, for much of maintain a high level of literature coverage. database increased by 384 (+ 120 syno- the period since they were first described, Also, if you are in search of an article pre- nyms). Altogether, there are 24,755 pyraloid have been treated as close relatives of pyra- sent in the GlobIZ literature report, feel free names for 2,090 genera (+1,391 synonyms) loids. For the Thyridoidea, Thyrididae (the to contact me with a PDF request – we might and 15,207 species (+ 6,067 synonyms). only known family) we list 168 named spe- have scanned it in the past. During the same period, the efforts for cor- cies and 127 unnamed ‘species’ (the latter rections and additions to already existing make up 43% of the total of 295 taxa.) Richard Mally records in the database increased much For the Pyralidae we list 286 named spe- cies and 379 unnamed ‘species’ (the latter

2 The Pyraloid Planet 9 - 2015 making up 60% of the total of 665 taxa). A commentary on the historic This species, along with the huge diver- Subfamilies included are the Galleriinae, gracing the book cover sity of moths he encountered, probably con- Chrysauginae, Pyralinae, and of ‘A preliminary guide to the tributed to Wallace’s emerging ideas on the Phycitinae. pyralid moths of Borneo, origin of species diversity, which led, via the 88% of the images have never been ‘Sarawak Law’, to his hypothesis of evolution published before except with the original Part 1’ through natural selection. descriptions in hard to access journals, or So, in a small way, this moth may have in Robinson, Tuck and Fletcher’s Smaller been part of the evidence which, when Sacada decora Walker, 1862 was col- Moths of SE Asia, which is itself hard to find Charles Darwin received it in a letter from lected by Alfred Russel Wallace in Sarawak, (although we have recently located a limited Wallace, challenged him to publish ‘The Ori- quite possibly in Rajah James Brooke’s source of new copies – please contact us if gin of Species’ (1859) without delay. mountain refuge. It was here that Wallace you want to buy one). did his classic study of moth diversity and For both superfamilies we figure species Stephen Sutton flight activity in relation to the phase of the with distributions which suggest they may moon (hardly bettered yet – see his ‘The be found in Borneo as well as those actually Malay Archipelago’ first published in 1869). recorded on the island. The total number of In Sarawak Wallace collected many images is 1077. new species of moths which are now in the We hope that this publication, and Parts 2 Hope Collections of the Oxford University & 3 to follow, will stimulate curatorial work as Museum. Sacada decora is the type spe- well as systematic, taxonomic, and ecologi- cies of the genus and so has historical signif- cal research on these moths. icance. The Latin ‘decora’ means ‘pretty’ or ‘handsome’ – the latter in this case because Stephen Sutton, Henry Barlow, the heavily plumed antennae indicate that it Terry Whitaker is a male.

A Preliminary Guide to PYRALID MOTHS OF BORNEO Part 1 Stephen Sutton Henry Barlow Terry Whitaker

ISBN 978-983-812-162-0 Vitessa pyraliata Walker, 1864 (Pyralidae: Pyralinae)

The bright colours of this species may be a warning it is distasteful to predators. Otherwise it may be mimicking an Volume 8 – 20 June 2014 entirely unrelated moth which is known to be distasteful. A newsletter for the Pyraloidea fans Photo: John Moore. 9 789838 121620

www.nhpborneo.com Editorial Natural History Publications (Borneo) and Southdene Collecting is a primordial component will be the regulation on access to genetic of our research and more important than resources, the “ABS Regulation” in short Dear Pyraloidea fans, ever in the current sorry state of nature (see http://register.consilium.europa.eu/doc/ conservation. Thus, I was glad to read a srv?l=EN&f=PE%20131%202013%20INIT), Welcome to the 8th edition of our news- letter in support of collecting in Science which was adopted by the Parliament and letter. I hope that you had or are having a recently (see http://www.sciencemag.org/ Council of the European Union and several good collecting season. Here in Switzerland content/344/6186.toc#Letters). It seems to countries. As its Article 1 reads, “this Regula- we were experiencing our first hot spell just be more complex now to go out collecting, tion establishes rules governing compliance recently and although I saw lots of moths at borrow and loan specimens, obtain funding with access and benefit-sharing for genetic light, I wasn’t very lucky with pyraloids. for collections maintenance and improve- resources and traditional knowledge associ- ment, and publish , than it was ated with genetic resources in accordance in the past. One more possible obstacle with the provisions of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Aris- ing from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity.” When ratified by at least 50 states, the Nagoya Protocol will take effect, and this is scheduled to happen in Front and back cover of ‘A preliminary guide to the pyralid moths of Borneo, part 1’. 2015. I assume that the Nagoya Protocol is

This issue was made possible with the help of Todd Gilligan, John Hawking, James Hayden, Sangmi Lee, Houhun Li, Richard Mally, Shankar Murthy, Hideshi Naka, Matthias Nuss, Harsimran Singh, Alma Solis, and Stephen Sutton.

The logo of The Pyraloid Planet was created by Florence Marteau of the Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland, and the layout of this issue was made by Corinne Charvet of the A new genus and species of Midilinae from the Serra Bonita Reserve, Bahía, Brazil, currently being same institution. The Pyraloid Planet 9 - 2015 described by Vitor Becker. Photo by B. Landry. 3

1 Pyraloid Moths of New 8 pages in all; four of these are pages of pages constitute (1) an introduction to New images of set specimens arranged by taxo- Zealand Pyraloidea, with a brief discussion Zealand on-line nomic group: Crambidae: ; Cram- of diversity and biology for each subfamily, bidae: Scopariinae; Crambidae: smaller (2) factsheets dealing with the 9 endemic I am delighted to be able to announce subfamilies; and Pyralidae. For each spe- Pyraloidea listed as threatened, with details to pyraloid enthusiasts worldwide the com- cies, between one and five specimens are of identification features, ecology, status, pletion of a near-comprehensive set of online images of New Zealand Pyraloidea. shown to indicate the range of variation and threats and potential monitoring techniques, The images (taken by photographer Birgit any sexual dimorphism. Biostatus is also and (3) notes on Scopariinae, a very large Rhode) are accessible through the Larger given, and additional brief notes for some unrevised subfamily in New Zealand, for Moths of New Zealand website: http://www. species. A fifth page has images of primary which some of the taxonomic difficulties are landcareresearch.co.nz/resources/iden- types of Pyraloidea held in the New Zealand discussed. tification//large-moths. There are Collection (NZAC). The remaining The New Zealand pyraloid fauna is over-

Some New Zealand pyraloids. A. Deana hybreasalis (Walker) (female); B. Exsilirarcha graminea Salmon & Bradley (male); C. Glaucocharis holanthes (Mey- rick) (male); D. Musotima aduncalis (Felder & Rogenhofer) (male); E. Orocrambus xanthogrammus (Meyrick) (female); F. Scoparia subita (Philpott) (male).

4 The Pyraloid Planet 9 - 2015 whelmingly weighted in favour of Crambidae, which has been somewhat neglected in New 1980’s Michael Shaffer mentioned to me the with an estimated 238 species, including Zealand, and inspire an increased level of loss of the specimens and that Joël Minet well-characterised unnamed taxa; only 24 interest and study. Given the major environ- had been there studying the specimens prior species of Pyralidae have been recorded. mental changes in this country over the last to their return. About 20 years later, prior Within Crambidae, Crambinae and Scoparii- two centuries, the increasing rate of arrival to 2001 and our move to the new space at nae dominate, with large endemic radiations of adventive Lepidoptera, and the ongoing the National Museum of Natural History, in the genera Glaucocharis (18 species), pressures on the native biota, it is essential Washington (NMNH), four rooms of returned Orocrambus (ca 50 species), Eudonia and that we step up our efforts to study, monitor material to the Department of Entomology Scoparia (collectively at least 120 species). and conserve these diverse and fascinating were discovered. The previous Collection In the last 3 genera, there is an extensive moths. Manager had failed to return specimens South Island alpine fauna, with a number Acknowledgements. Many thanks to to the curators for many years. I was pre- of very local and poorly known taxa. Sev- Birgit Rhode (NZAC), who put an immense sented with the material that was returned by eral endemic crambids [e.g. Kupea electilis amount of work and hard-won skill into pho- Michael to Jack Clarke; I later hand carried Philpott, Orocrambus fugitivellus (Hudson), tographing and editing images of the hun- the four specimens back to the BMNH. O. sophistes (Meyrick)] have brachypterous dreds of specimens in the image galleries. In preparation for the collection move I flightless females, and in one subantarc- Brian Patrick kindly compiled most of the also found the original series from which tic species, Exsilirarcha graminea Salmon Threatened Species factsheets. I am also those gifted specimens came from. So in & Bradley from Campbell Island, both especially grateful to Maia Vaswani, who addition to the 2 types we have 28 micro- sexes are flightless. One species, ‘Argyria’ visited the British Museum (Natural History), pinned specimens collected on Rapa by strophaea Meyrick, remains unplaced to London, on my behalf and took images of Gustav Paulay, then at the University of subfamily. Almost all subfamilies of New genitalia of key taxa, mostly Scopariinae, Washington, Seattle, WA, in 1980, that he Zealand Crambidae are in need of taxonomic which greatly assisted in identifications of sent to Jack in 1983. Jack left a note with revision, with a number of known unnamed specimens imaged, and clarified the correct the specimens stating that there was cor- species (some of these threatened), and application of many names. She also very respondence associated with these speci- many other unresolved taxonomic problems, kindly dissected the holotype of Homoeo- mens. I requested and received a copy of the especially in Scopariinae. The life histories soma ischnomorpha Meyrick. I gratefully correspondence from Pam Henson at the remain very poorly documented for most acknowledge the financial assistance of the Office of the Smithsonian Institution Archives species. Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Infor- that had the numbers on the specimens with Most New Zealand Pyralidae are adven- mation System (TFBIS) Programme towards the collecting data and a little diagram of tive species, and many of the well-known this project (TFBIS number 267). The TFBIS the pinned specimens and how they corre- cosmopolitan pests [e.g. Pyralis farinalis Lin- Programme is funded by the New Zealand sponded to the numbers. I labelled the speci- naeus, Plodia interpunctella (Hübner), Galle- Government to help achieve the goals of mens using the information in the letter. Just ria mellonella (Linnaeus)] are established. All the New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy, in case anyone is looking for this species, four endemic pyralids are Phycitinae: two of and is administered by the Department of the adults were beaten from “dead leaves” these are local and rare (probably declining) Conservation. and “dead fronds” on a variety of plant gen- South Island endemics, Delogenes limodoxa era: Freycinetia, Asplenium, Pseudomorus, Meyrick and Sporophyla oenospora Mey- Robert J.B. Hoare and Coprosma (respectively Pandanaceae, rick, currently placed in endemic monotypic Aspleniacae, Moraceae, and Rubiaceae). genera. A third, Homoeosoma anaspila Meyrick, is more widespread; the fourth, an M. Alma Solis unnamed species of Vinicia, is possibly con- fined to estuarine situations in the northern The Lathroteles North Island. In Phycitinae, there are also specimens trail two introduced bio-control agents: Pempelia Investigating the genistella (Duponchel) introduced for control In a recent article Minet (2015) res- of gorse (Ulex europaeus) and Arcola mal- urrected the family name Lathrotelidae pyraloid diversity of loi (Pastrana), introduced against alligator described by Clarke (1971) at the subfamilial Mount Kinabalu weed (Alternanthera philoxeroides). Several level for Lathroteles, Diplopseustis, Diplop- migratory species and more or less recently seustoides, and Sufetula. He mentions We are just back from a collecting trip established arrivals from Australia complete specimens at the Natural History Museum, in the Malaysian state of Sabah in North- the picture for Pyralidae. London (BMNH) that “were unfortunately ern Borneo, on the southern slopes of the The images should greatly assist with the lost by the postal services when returned by mighty Mount Kinabalu to investigate the identification of specimens of New Zealand M. Shaffer to J. F. G. Clarke (Smithsonian snout moth diversity at Mount Kinabalu Pyraloidea, especially when used in con- Institution, Washington, DC) (“I should have National Park. We aimed to sample at differ- junction with the pages of introductory notes kept them”, told me the former – “they were ent habitats ranging in altitude from lowland and the notes on Scopariinae; it is hoped actually intended as a gift to the BMNH...”).” forest to alpine elevations a few hundred that they will raise awareness of this group, When I started to visit the BMNH in the meters below the mountain’s 4,095 metre

The Pyraloid Planet 9 - 2015 5 summit [at least that was its height before were entranced by this place from the first one! When we heard a rumbling sound in the the earthquake (see below)]. The freshly col- night on when we arrived there at 3rd June. near distance we jumped out of the bed and lected material will help us in our molecular On 5th June, after collecting late the ran outside, where the other guests and the phylogenetic work as well as enable us to night before, we were woken up early by staff had already gathered in a mix of panic integratively illuminate the local biodiversity several kids who were running and lum- and confusion. Everybody at the lodge and through both morphological and DNA bar- bering through the wooden lodge. At 7:15 the house itself were okay, but this experi- coding results. a.m. noises grew louder and louder, and we ence had a lasting effect on us, so that the A research trip of this scope needs a lot of thought that those kids were teasing us, as many after-shocks kept us nervous and wor- preparation. A convincing research proposal suddenly the whole building started shaking ried. However, we decided to stay there to as well as passing a number of bureaucratic heavily. An earthquake – and not a small continue collecting. procedures were necessary in order to apply for access to the National Park. Dr. Christian Schulze conducted research on Pyraloidea in Mount Kinabalu National Park almost 20 years ago. His work gave us an insight of what species to expect at our first collecting site in Poring Hot Spring. Dr. Stephen Sutton was of invaluable help in coordinating eve- rything beforehand here in Sabah while we were still in Europe. After our arrival in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah province, Ste- phen helped us to get all the required permits in a record-breaking time. Professor Charles Vairappan of the Institute of Tropical Biodi- versity and Conservation (ITBC) at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) in Kota Kinabalu is our project collaborator. His very generous support considerably raised the chances of success for our project proposal. The 4,095 metres high Mount Kinabalu seen from the south, before the earthquake of 5th June 2015. Photo: T. Léger. After a few days here we already made numerous friends. The people of Sabah are enormously friendly and want to help wher- ever they can. They often wonder what we are doing here and are curious about our research on ‘rama-rama’ (meaning ‘moth’ in Malay). English is broadly spoken in Malay- sia, as it is one of the official languages along with Malay, but a basic knowledge of Malay vocabulary is helpful in the countryside, and the internet is of great help in this respect. However, the lack of internet access – as was the case for us during most of the time in the field – sometimes results in commu- nicating with people in pure sign language. After a somewhat underwhelming start in the lowland forests we changed to medium altitudes around 1,500 metres where we caught an amazing diversity of pyraloids at Kinabalu Mountain Lodge, a picturesque and quiet accommodation near Kinabalu Park Headquarters. This is not just an ideal loca- tion for bird watchers but also has a veranda facing south that allowed us to witness sev- eral stunning sunsets. However, the biggest attraction there was the veranda itself: once Pyraloidea encountered at light in Malaysia. Clockwise from upper right: Two specimens of Pagyda sp. the veranda lights were turned on in the together with Glyphodes cf. caesalis (Walker, 1859); Hoploscopa sp.; Neoanalthes pseudocontorta- evening, hundreds of moths came and walls lis Yamanaka & Kirpichnikova, 1993; Stericta sp.; Nevrina procopia (Stoll, 1781); Notesia tranquillalis and ceiling were quickly covered in bugs. We (Lederer, 1863). Photos: T. Léger.

6 The Pyraloid Planet 9 - 2015 This earthquake with the eighteen fatali- ties as well as the aftermath with numerous landslides, floods that destroyed streets and bridges, and the many people in Mesilau and Ranau affected by water shortage and the power outage had a severe impact on Sabah. Mesilau Nature Resort, where we stayed only a couple of days before the quake, was evacuated and is now completely cut off from civilisation. Nobody knows if the land- slides and boulders made it into the Resort area and damaged or even destroyed build- ings. And with the upper mountain stations of Layang-Layang and Laban Rata damaged and closed, we had to alter our plans which originally saw us up there, collecting at 2,600 to 3,250 metres elevation. During our stay here we had the chance Mountain rainforest at Mesilau Nature Resort. Photo: T. Léger. to attend the “Rainforest Ecology, Diversity and Conservation in Borneo” Conference in Kota Kinabalu where we met colleagues from a variety of biological disciplines. We also presented results of our own research. After this short break in Kota Kinabalu we continued our collecting efforts but couldn’t get up higher than 1,866 metres at Timpo- hon Gate. After collecting in the National Park one of us (Richard) worked in the DNA lab facilities at ITBC thanks to the support of Prof. Vairappan. The aim of this work was to get first molecular results from the collected material for two of our upcoming projects. This was an exciting trip to probably one of the most beautiful places on our planet, and it results in a large number of collected pyraloids which will help us in our ongo- ing and future research projects as well as encourage revisionary taxonomic work on the pyraloids of Borneo. This latter goes hand in hand with the ambitious project of Stephen Sutton, Henry Barlow and Terry Whitaker on the Pyraloidea of Borneo. At the moment they are in the process of publishing the first of three volumes of their preliminary guide to the snout moths of Borneo. Pyraloid research is picking up pace here in South East Asia at the moment, and we would be happy to share both the work and the pas- sion with everybody who is interested in helping. We are very grateful to the Norwegian Meltzer Fond (Richard) and the Royal Ento- mological Society (Théo) for kindly support- ing our project here in Sabah.

Théo Léger & Richard Mally Théo at work on the veranda of Kinabalu Mountain Lodge. Photo: R. Mally

The Pyraloid Planet 9 - 2015 7 News from… over the previous years and the DNA extrac- and the Nearctic regions for which we still tions available at the Senckenberg Museum lack material. We are in particularly looking James Hayden für Tierkunde Dresden (SMTD). James for the following genera: Corynophora, Hed- Hayden and Robert Hoare provided me with nota, Neargyria, Phanomorpha (Australa- Linwood C. Dow passed away in August helpful material from the U.S.A. and New sian), Cosipara, Eufernaldia, Haimbachia, 2014 and willed the remainder of his collec- Zealand respectively, and I completed the Hemiplatytes (Nearctic), Diptychophora tion to the Florida Museum of Natural His- sampling of the European fauna. My collect- (Neotropics), and Afroscoparia (Paleotro­ tory, McGuire Center. “Woody” Dow was ing trip to Malaysia with Richard Mally (see pics). Thank you for your help! one of the major moth collectors in Florida in above) aimed to bring back important Asian the 1980s and 1990s, and he also collected taxa missing from my sample. extensively in Belize and Puerto Rico. He I first focussed on building a molecular Eivind Palm specialized in pyraloids, and he took interest alignment of the four nuclear genes GAPDH, in difficult taxa, such as Desmia and Prion- IDH, MDH and rps5 which proved to per- I have made a new article on European apterigini, making dissections where neces- form well in resolving the phylogeny of the phycitines in our small Danish “Lepidop- sary. He collaborated with Herb Neunzig on Lepidoptera (Wahlberg & Wheat, 2008). tera” periodical. This is number 3. This time the Phycitinae of Belize (1993). His collec- I designed new nested primers for these I have written about Anerestiini and taken tion of several tens of thousands of speci- genes (short DNA fragment that specifically into account all the species mentioned in mens is currently being accessioned. bind a targeted gene to amplify it) targeted to Karsholt & Razowski, 1996, although some my groups in order to increase the PCR effi- of the names appear to be synonyms. I have ciency. The first results suggest the mono- gathered all the information known to me phyly of these two groups as well as their about the species, flying period, distribution, Théo Léger sister-group relationship excluding Helio- etc. And I have added pictures of as many thela and Hoploscopa, which most probably species as I could get from the Zoological I started two years ago under the supervi- represent independent lineages. We are Museum in Copenhagen and my own col- sion of Bernard Landry and Matthias Nuss a planning to show our results during the SEL lection, including also some pictures kindly project aiming to reconstruct the phylo­geny meeting in Dresden at the end of September, lent to me by F. Slamka and J. Ylla. You can of the Crambinae and the Scopariinae, two and in a first paper in the following months. obtain a PDF copy if you write me an E-mail. subfamilies that the study of Regier et al. We are still interested in freshly collected (2012) proved to be sister-groups. I drew or 95%+ ethanol preserved material to fur- a first taxon sampling from the specimens ther detangle the phylogeny of these groups. stored in alcohol by Bernard and Matthias Particularly of interest are the Australasian

Peoria semirosella (Ragonot); Greece, Samos, 50 m, 4.vi.1989, C. Garrevoet leg., coll. ZMUC. Photo E. Palm

8 The Pyraloid Planet 9 - 2015 Houhun Li and Mujie Qi

The staff of the Lepidoptera labora- tory at Nankai University, Tianjin, started to establish a “Checklist of Microlepidoptera of China” beginning this January. The list also includes all of the Chinese species of Pyra- loidea and the book is now undergoing edi- tion. Presently, one Ph.D. student of the lab is studying the Epipaschiinae of China. We plan to attend the XIXth European Congress of Lepidopterology this autumn in Dresden, Germany, where we will give a talk on the fauna of the Chinese Phycitinae. Dr Mujie Qi finished his studies in Professor Yang-Seop Bae’s laboratory, Incheon National Univer- sity, Korea, and came back to China early this year. He is now revising the Chinese Pyralinae in the Lepidoptera laboratory at Qi Mujie on Mount Baxian, China, July 2015. Nankai University as a postdoctoral fellow for two years. Additionally, he will continue to work on the Phycitinae and Pyralinae of Southeast Asia.

M. Alma Solis

Polygrammodes quatrilis Druce pho- tographed in Ecuador was sent to me for identification. The junior synonym, P. nigri- frons Schaus, seems to be a better descrip- tive name. Unfortunately, the 100 year-old specimens in the NMNH collection don’t look anything like this (black is brown and white is translucent).

Polygrammodes quatrilis Druce

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