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20 June 2012 a Newsletter for the Pyraloidea Fans Volume 6 – 20 June 2012 A newsletter for the Pyraloidea fans Editorial Matthias Nuss and I went to Bolivia in the MHNNKM. We rented a car and first February and March for 4 weeks. We landed went north to a large property near Concep- in Santa Cruz and started to organize field cion. This cattle hacienda is owned by Lutz Dear fellow pyraloid fans, work with the help of Julieta Ledezma of the Werding, of German origin. Don Lutz did a 2012 so far has been an exciting year for Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mer- marvellous thing in segregating part of his me, with an expedition to Bolivia, the com- cado (MHNNKM) and Martin Jansen a her- property as a forest reserve and built a very pletion of a manuscript on the phylogeny of petologist associated with the Senckenberg comfortable research station with the help of Pyraloidea (see separate text on p. 4), and Institute (Germany). We were joined in the the Senckenberg Institute. The main attrac- a mini-symposium on Crambinae here in field by my old friendDaniel Néron, a birder, tions of this area are the very interesting Geneva. and by lepidopterist Alejandra Valdivia from chiquitano forest and cerrado. We collected Bernard Landry, Matthias Nuss, Julieta Ledezma, Alejandra Valdivia, and three students from J. Ledezma’s lab. This issue was made possible with the help of Stacey Anderson, Franziska Bauer, Willy De Prins, Guillermo Fernandez, John Hawking, Jim Hayden, John Heppner, Houhun Li, Wolfram Mey, Matthias Nuss, 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 same institution. 1 Systematics and Ecology of the Australian Acentropine Moths As part of my semi-retirement in 2007, I commenced a PhD on the revision of the Australian Acentropinae (Crambidae). Over the years I had worked on the taxonomy of the aquatic larvae of the Acentropinae and published a guide to the larvae from Aus- tralia (Hawking 2001). I’ve had a long his- tory in aquatic science and have published on aquatic invertebrates. I have completed a Masters Degree in “The Ecology of Odonata” and have published many articles and books on dragonflies. The Australian Acentropinae fauna cur- rently consists of 47 species, in 17 genera (Shaffer et al. 1996) and fortunately repre- sentative specimens were held in the Aus- tralian National Insect Collection (ANIC) for Some of the few specimens of Pyraloidea of the MHNNKM, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. examination. Field trips were conducted throughout Australia from 2007 – 2009, there 8 nights and the Crambinae were plen- frequented by birders and certainly one based on distributional data from ANIC tiful, with some 30 species found. Leaving of the two most beautiful natural places and these yielded a substantial amount of Hacienda San Sebastian our plan was to I have seen in my life. It was a successful adult and larval material, of which much reach Buena Vista and try to find Myelo­ trip with good collecting. Unfortunately, as of was new. DNA and morphological analysis bia where large bamboos grow. We stayed June 18, some of our specimens are still in were undertaken on both adults and larvae with Robin Clarke and his wife Sonia at their Bolivia because the permit which would have to produce descriptions of the species and Flora y Fauna Hotel. Nature abounds in this allowed us to carry them out of the country a phylogeny. more humid area with much larger trees than didn’t arrive in time. in the chiquitano forest, but humans have Analyses were undertaken on each spe- For a mini-symposium on Crambinae ‘invaded’ the area and we found few moths cies to obtain DNA sequence of the CO1, I had invited Graziano Bassi of Italy and of interest, perhaps partly due to the fact that 18S, 28S and CAD genes and help establish Robert Schouten of Holland, but unfortu- the rains are more spread out in the year of a phylogeny. The CO1 gene was also used nately the latter couldn’t come at the last late and insect phenology has consequently to associate the larval stages with described minute. Nevertheless, Graziano and I had been perturbed. We stayed only two nights, and undescribed adults. Descriptions of the a productive time working on the collection, collected a single specimen of Myelobia, and adult morphology, genitalia and wing veins on a manuscript, and on GlobIZ to associate few other crambines altogether. The next were made along with descriptions of the lar- as many genera as possible to their proper part of the trip was spent in and near Pam- vae, which included a considerable amount tribe. We also selected the genera that we pagrande, in a dry Andean valley on the old of new ecological information. deemed most appropriate to study for a phy- road to Cochabamba. There we met Padre logenetic analysis of World Crambinae. Andreas Langer, a priest and naturalist who has helped a great many other naturalists I hope that you enjoy the contributions passing in the area over the last decades. below. I am happy to welcome two new stu- He indicated collecting spots and facilitated dents to our group. As usual please send collecting and specimen preparation. The any changes of address and additions to vegetation of this area is quite fascinating, the ‘Membership List’ to me. You are also with various species of cacti, some quite more than welcome to send PP to whoever large, but although there were few Crambi- you like. Also, if you would like to take over nae, Matthias collected his first Scopariinae as editor of future issues of PP, please don’t of the expedition, on a hill with more humid hesitate, and let me know. vegetation at about 1300 m in elevation. Cheers, We finished our stay in Bolivia at Refugio Paracymoriza eromenalis (Snellen), Los Volcanes, a private resort especially Bernard Landry Acentropinae 2 The Pyraloid Planet 6 - 2012 The revision has confirmed the status of In the past, I dedicated myself to research Guillermo Fernandez 11 genera, while synonymising three genera on the megadiverse Coleophorinae (Gele- and proposing the erection of probably six chioidea: Coleophoridae) on which I was able I have been working during the last 5 new genera. Seventeen new species were to shed a little bit of light (Bauer et al. 2012). years with Joaquin Baixeras at the Univer- recognised. The larvae were found to con- Matthias Nuss, two further co-authors and I sity of Valencia (Spain) as curator of the tain excellent morphological features that provided the first molecular phylogeny of the Lepidoptera collection. During these years were extremely valuable in helping deter- group. We revealed eight species groups, I worked with different groups of moths and became interested in Pyralidae. At the same mine the systematic placement of the gen- straightened up the confusing nomencla- time I made my M.Sc. in “Biodiversity and era. The project is expected to be completed ture and taxonomical concepts available Conservation”, the Master thesis topic was in August –September 2012. for European species and drew conclusions regarding host-plant associations. about the effects of light pollution on the References arthropod fauna. For my PhD, I am planning to run a Hawking, J.H. (2001). An introduction to similar strategy for Phycitinae. In fact, both Two years ago, I met Matthias Nuss for the identification of aquatic caterpillars groups can be compared to some extent. the first time. We started talking about the (Lepidoptera) found in Australian Inland possibility of doing my PhD on pyraloids. In Waters. Identification Guide No. 37. Phycitinae are also megadiverse and the May, during a common field trip in southern Cooperative Research Centre Freshwater current generic classification is dominated Spain, we agreed to focus on the phylogeny Ecology / Murray Darling Freshwater by traditional typological concepts, just as of Chrysauginae, and to study representa- Research Centre: Thurgoona. Pp. 36. formerly in Coleophorinae. The estimated tives of as many of the 130 known genera 3,450 described phycitine species are clas- Shaffer, M., Nielsen, E.S., and Horak, M. (1996). as possible. I will develop my work under the sified into 652 valid genera, an unman- Pyralidae. In: Nielson, E.S., Edwards, supervision of Matthias and Joaquin. E.D. and Rangsi, T.V. (eds.). Checklist of ageable jumble of family-, genus- and the Lepidoptera of Australia. Pp 164 - 199. species-groups. This is where I take action: I don´t have a fellowship for doing my Monographs of Australian Lepidoptera. Vol. I am going to focus on reconstructing a phy- PhD yet and will have to combine it with 4. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood. logeny by means of molecular, morphologi- other work. Though I collected myself in John Hawking cal and ecological data which hopefully will Venezuela and Bolivia, I would be happy to help to move into a more natural classifica- receive some support with recently collected tion of phycitines. Surely, I will not manage material from the Neotropics. the world phycitines and therefore concen- I hope to meet the pyraloid community in trate on European genera and some repre- the near future. News from... sentatives from other continents. Guillermo Fernandez Reference Franziska Bauer Bauer, F., Stübner, A., Neinhuis, C. & Nuss, M. 2012: Molecular phylogeny, larval case Hello everyone, I am Franziska Bauer architecture, host–plant associations and and I am currently working as a PhD student classification of European Coleophoridae at the Senckenberg Natural History Collec- (Lepidoptera). Zoologica Scripta, Stockholm 41 (3): 248–265.
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