Volume 6 – 20 June 2012 A newsletter for the 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 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

As part of my semi-retirement in 2007, I commenced a PhD on the revision of the Australian Acentropinae (). Over the years I had worked on the 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 , in 17 genera (Shaffer et al. 1996) and fortunately repre- sentative specimens were held in the Aus- tralian National 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 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 . 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 fauna. For my PhD, I am planning to run a Hawking, J.H. (2001). An introduction to similar strategy for . 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-, - 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. tion, Museum of Zoology Dresden, with Mat- thias Nuss as my supervisor. Franziska Bauer

Sciota hostilis (Stephens) adult reared from a larva found in Denmark; photo taken on May 25, 2008 by Franziska Bauer.

The Pyraloid Planet 6 - 2012 3 Alma Solis the Glaphyriinae with highly derived genitalia John Heppner and with a presumably unusual biology. The In press with Systematic Entomology is type species was originally described as a In July last year John Heppner wrote the the most thorough molecular phylogeny of noctuid by Schaus. Gene Munroe thought it following: ‘I am not “retired” but employed now Pyraloidea to date. It was a collaborative should be its own family at one time until I as Microlepidoptera Curator at the McGuire effort by Jerry Regier, Charlie Mitter, and talked him out of it when we were working on Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, at Mike Cummings from the University of Mary- the Neotropical Checklist. Stay tuned! the Florida Museum of Natural History, Uni- land and lepidopterists Jim Hayden, Bernard versity of Florida. My research continues on Landry, Matthias Nuss, Thomas Simonsen, I was collecting at the Big Thicket National micro-moths, especially, Choreutidae and Shen-Horn Yen, Andreas Zwick and Alma Park in Texas last summer with Mike Pogue. Glyphipterigidae, but I also have projects on Solis as part of the Lepidoptera Tree-of-Life Texas has been in a drought for many years Brachodidae, Copromorphidae, Carposini- project. The study sequenced five nuclear and it was HOT! Nevertheless, I was able dae, Alucitidae, Schreckensteiniidae, Attevi- genes of 42 pyraloids spanning both families to collect species of Acentropinae that sur- dae, Urodidae, Tortricidae, some Pyralidae and 18 of the 22 subfamilies, plus up to 14 vive due to the undergound seeps that are (new records for Vietnam and Taiwan, as additional genes in 22 of those pyraloids plus throughout the park. I also managed to “pin” well as new Nymphulinae from the USA [I do all 24 outgroups. Subfamily relationships myself with a minuten in the foot. It had to be not approve the change to Acentropinae)], within Pyralidae, all very strongly supported, removed with surgery later. plus the pyralid related family Immidae. My differ only slightly from a previous morpho- In February of this year I was invited to faunal studies also continue in Florida, Peru, logical analysis, and can be summarized as conduct a weeklong Pyraloidea seminar at Guatemala, Taiwan, and Vietnam, as well ((Galleriinae + Chrysauginae) (Phycitinae the University of El Salvador. I am conduct- as editing of the new Lepidopterorum Cata- ( + ))). In Crambidae ing collaborative research on the Diatraea of logus, and Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera the molecular phylogeny is also strongly El Salvador with Dr. Andrea Joyce, Univer- and other projects. The FSCA and combined supported, but conflicts with most previous sity of California at Merced. It also included Lepidoptera collections housed in McGuire hypotheses. I will be presenting these results a workshop on genitalia dissection of Dia­ Center are now the largest Lepidoptera at three meetings this year: the Lepidopter- traea, collection of adult moths in a nature holdings in the world, outside of the British ists’ Society Meeting in Denver, Colorado, area, and the identification and collection Museum (NHM), so lepidopterists should International Congress of Entomology in of Acentropine immatures. We managed consult this collection prior to concluding Daegu, Korea, and the National Entomologi- to rear a species of Petrophila to adult- their studies.’ cal Society of America meeting in Knoxville, hood! [You can see more about this event John Heppner Tennessee. at http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/News. At the Lepidopterists’ Society meeting htm?modecode=12-75-41-00] this year I will also be presenting a sum- Also published including the Pyraloidea mary of all of the projects relating to the of Honduras: Miller, J.Y., D. L. Matthews, Jim Hayden Acentropinae that I have been working on, A.D. Warren, M. A. Solis, D. J. Harvey, P. some with collaborators, regarding species Gentili-Poole, T.C. Emmel, C. V. Covell, Jr. I have not done much on pyraloids the in Petrophila, Oxyelophila, Usingeriessa, 2012. An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of past year. I have a full-time job differentiat- and Aulacodes. Honduras. Insecta Mundi 0205: 1-72. ing the invasive moths in Florida from the native ones. I think the number of unde- A phylogenetic analysis of Schacontia Alma Solis scribed pyraloids in Florida is overrated, but by Paul Goldstein, Mark Metz & myself will there are a few in taxa that have not been be submitted soon. This is a small genus in revised – please ask about loans from the FSCA/MGCL. I focus on taxa with economic importance or relatives. I am working on lar- val descriptions of: - Diasemiodes janassialis (Walker), which is a pest on Lobelia cardinalis flowers at a couple of nurseries in Missouri; and, - Duponchelia fovealis: a description needs to be provided for final-instar lar- vae. Steve Passoa has kindly helped with this. I recently caught adults and larvae of Penestola bufalis (Guenée) in among man- groves in Vero Beach, Florida. They are saprophages in rotting intertidal leaf litter, like Hymenoptychis and Tatobotys (see Mur- Schacontia chanesalis (Druce) (Glaphyriinae) phy, 1990), and similar to the behavior of Duponchelia.

4 The Pyraloid Planet 6 - 2012 I am still trying to get immature stages of Afromoths GlobIZ News 2012 Sufetula spp. in Florida. They sporadically infest the roots of palms in nurseries but The website www.afromoths.net currently During the last 12 months, the num- are hard to detect; I have not had success contains 32,380 species-group names. The ber of valid species included in the Global with rearing larvae from wild-caught adults. ultimate aim of the website is to present infor- Information System on Pyraloidea (GlobIZ) I have recently seen one larva, and it looks mation on ALL Afrotropical species. increased by 1,311 (+ 577 synonyms) to a like a crambine without stemmata and with The actual database underlying the website total of 13,819 (+ 5,448 synonyms). Some a couple of chaetotaxic anomalies. Joël currently contains close to 34,000 species- 7,700 changes were made by 10 contribu- Minet informs me that he has the immatures group names. This database was published tors to GlobIZ pages in 2011. of Sufetula sunidesalis, and I would like to online at the beginning of May 2012. It con- Bernard Landry continued his work on know if anyone has seen larvae of Diplo­ tains 1324 species-group names belonging crambines and exceeded the number of pseustis or other species. to Pyralidae and 2159 to Crambidae. The 2,000 valid species by 35. Sangmi Lee and I were just awarded number of referenced species-group names It might be difficult to judge the complete- funding thru the USDA’s 2012 Farm Bill. It and names of which the original description ness of the dataset, since nomenclature is to produce an online Lucid identification has been checked from the primary source of pyraloids is comprehensive and always tool for pyraloids and microleps that feed can be found below in Table. 1 changing. Gaps still exist for Phycitinae, Spi- on Solanaceae, focusing on the Leucinodes A new feature of the website is the dis- lomelinae, Pyraustinae and Pyralinae (given group and Gnorimoschemini. We will col- play of distribution maps (see fig.) showing by decreasing numbers). All of the other laborate with Richard Mally, who is studying the distribution of species per country in the pyraloid subfamilies are now completed in the Leucinodes group, and Akito Kawahara’s Afrotropical region. The database currently lab for sequencing. In the next six months, terms of quantity and so are all pyraloids of contains this information in almost 48,000 the New World. we will ask you all for loans of solanum-feed- distribution records. ing pyraloids and micros for dissection and Everybody is welcome to verify data morphological illustration, and sequencing if using the public domain www.pyraloidea. possible (allowing for fresh specimens). org and report missing data or mistakes to Jim Hayden Bernard Landry or Matthias Nuss. Moreover, I would be more than happy to provide any- body interested in editing data the right to enter the database for that purpose. On the web Matthias Nuss Pyralid & thyridid moths of Borneo - an illustrated guide Diagnostics of Australian The pyralid and thyridid moths of Borneo project being put together by Terry Whitaker, Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775) pyraloid pests Henry Barlow and myself has been much In the framework of a scholarship pro- delayed by uncertainty as to whether to Future improvements encompass a.o. vided by the Office of Chief Plant Protec- produce these in book form or online, and the display of images, mainly of adult speci- tion, in Australia, a diagnostic protocol was how much textual information to include. The mens from museum collections, prefer- developed for 12 exotic Pyraloidea species. decision has now been made to create an ably primary types. The database contains These moths are pests on rice, sugarcane, HTML 5 website for these two groups, to give already about 1000 of such images, mainly citrus fruit and mangoes. Two species not a ‘work-in-progress’ illustrated guide which from the Royal Museum for Central Africa, previously recorded in Australia have been we hope will give researchers a starting point Tervuren, Belgium. confirmed as established in the Northern on matching names to images, to which they Willy De Prins Territory (Chilo polychrysus (Meyrick) and can contribute. We hope to start loading this site by April 2012. Scirpophaga nivella (Fabricius)). Also, the previously unknown genitalia of three of Initially the thyridids will go up as a set these species are illustrated (Citripestis of plates of images with captions linked to text, because there is already a manuscript. This will be converted to HTML 5 format later (meaning image, name and text will be Table 1 together when you search for a name). The pyralids, for which there is no manuscript, Species-group Names with reference Original description checked will be loaded straight to HTML 5. Synonyms names to the original description and references will be in appendices. Pyralidae 1324 840 (63%) 442 (33%) Stephen Sutton Crambidae 2159 1052 (49%) 670 (31%)

The Pyraloid Planet 6 - 2012 5 eutraphera (Meyrick), Deanolis sublimbalis Three genera and thirty-six species are Lepidoptera fauna of Namibia and western Snellen and euadrusalis Walker). newly recorded to China, including the fol- South Africa since 2007. One of the tasks The protocols have been approved by the lowing Pyraloidea: Faveria manoi (Yama- was the elaboration of a field guide. While Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and naka, 1993), obtusella (Hübner, working on this topic it soon became obvi- Forestry Australia and Biosecurity New Zea- 1796), Euzophera (Euzophera) albicostalis ous that a large part of the fauna was still land. View them at www.padil.gov.au. Hampson, 1903, Ancylosis (Heterographis) undescribed. Even common and widespread umbrilimbella (Ragonot, 1901), Ancylosis species turned out to be without names. A field-guide should of course include the Stacey J. Anderson (Heterographis) xylinella (Staudinger, 1870), saxicola (Vaughan, 1870), Circo­ abundant species of a region. They probably botys malaisei Munroe & Mutuura, 1970. have an ecological significance, and thus, are important elements of the correspond- The following pyraloid genus and species ing local ecosystems. Therefore, I decided to New Books group names are synonymized: Rufalda postpone the work on the identification book, Roesler, 1972 (= Glyptoteles Zeller, 1848); and started at first describing and naming Rufalda absolutella Roesler, 1972 (= Glypto­ Microlepidoptera of these species for later consideration in the teles leucacrinella Zeller, 1848). planned field-guide. In the last volume of Qinling Mountains Two combinations are introduced in Pyra- Esperiana Memoir the descriptions of these Houhun Li et al., 2012. Microlepi- lidae: Faveria manoi (Yamanaka, 1993), species were published. In addition, some doptera of Qinling Mountains (Insecta: Acrobasis subflavella (Inoue, 1982). new genera were established. The new taxa belonging to Pyraloidea are listed in Table 1. Lepidoptera). xviii + 1272 pp. + 35 col. Acrobasis inouei Ren, 2012 is proposed pls. Beijing: Science Press. [ISBN 978- as a replacement name for Conobathra The taxonomic work on these various 7-03-033316-2] (In Chinese with English tricolorella Inoue, 1982, and Edulicodes subfamilies and genera was an extraor- summary). inoueella Roesler, 1972 is recalled from dinary challenge. In nearly all groups the synonymy. available taxonomic basis proved to be too weak for daring descriptions and additions of The studied specimens are deposited in new species and new names. I had to dive the Insect Collection, College of Life Sci- deep into pyraloid taxonomy, deeper and ences, Nankai University, Tianjin, except longer than anticipated for sorting out things. those of Zygaenidae and Limacodidae in A great advantage was the accessibility and the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of availability of the important, type-rich col- Sciences, Beijing, China. lections in the museums of London, Paris, Houhun Li Geneva, Vienna, Cape Town and Pretoria. During the last years I was a regular visitor in the museums of London and South Africa, and I could study most of the type material of the species described from southern Africa. New species and genera of There are only a few lepidopterists with Pyraloidea from southwestern a good knowledge on the African fauna or Africa

It is not new knowledge that the Pyra- loidea of Africa south of the Sahara is a poorly known group. The regions with the highest level of faunistic and taxonomic exploration This work deals with the microlepidop- are southern Africa and Madagascar. How- teran species in the Qinling Mountains, ever, even these regions have been inves- Shaanxi Province, China. A total of 1043 tigated rather unevenly. In South Africa the species in 423 genera of 28 families under best explored areas are the former provinces 13 superfamilies are recognized. 835 spe- of Transvaal and Natal, whereas the interior cies are described in detail, accompanied and the western parts have remained less by colour figures of the adults, and drawings studied. Both sides of the continent have a of male and female genitalia characters. completely different climate with humid con- Recorded hostplants and distribution data ditions in the east and along the south coast, are provided. and arid and semiarid conditions in the west. One new species is described in Pyra- The biodiversity of Lepidoptera follows this lidae: Faveria acutivalva Ren et Li, 2012 gradient. The fauna is much richer and more (= Oligochroa leucophaeella sensu Inoue, speciose in the east than in the dry west. 1982). In the frame of an international project (BIOTA- South Africa) I was studying the

6 The Pyraloid Planet 6 - 2012 xanthomista spec. nov. Hyperlais conspersalis spec. nov. Hyperlais transversalis spec. nov. Crambicybalomia gen. nov. Crambicybalomia ariditatis spec. nov. Ptychopseustis lucipara spec. nov. Ptychopseustis schmitzi spec. nov.

Odontiinae Autocharis arida Maes & Mey, spec. nov. Emprepes maesi spec. nov. Tegostoma aridalis spec. nov.

Pyraustinae Metasia grootbergensis sp. nov.

“Membership” list Crambicybalomia ariditatis Mey (Cybalomiinae) David Agassiz with a specialisation in some families. I was Hypotia faucis spec. nov. The Garden House, Stafford Place fortunate enough to receive much help and Triphassa argentea spec. nov. Weston-super-Mare BS23 2QZ support from all of them. Therefore, not all Actenia fuscoserrata spec. nov. UNITED KINGDOM Actenia dirempta spec. nov. e-mail: [email protected]; new species are my “babies” but a number of [email protected] species and genus descriptions are results Epipaschiinae of joint work. Thanks again to D. Agassiz Isolopha magna spec. nov. Stacey Anderson (Acentropinae), G. Bassi (Crambinae, Cyba- Otjipagapaga gen. nov. Entomology Technician lomiinae) and K. Maes (Crambidae, excl. Otjipagapaga prima spec. nov. NAQS - AQIS Darwin Crambinae). Otjipagapaga secundaria spec nov. PO Box 37846, Winnellie, NT 0821 Otjipagapaga dentilinealis (Hampson, 1906), AUSTRALIA Some of the new taxa are provisionally comb. nov. e-mail: [email protected] placed in a genus (e.g. Sclerobia) or sub- Salma gamsbergpastalis spec. nov. J. E. F. Asselbergs family (e.g. Flohtschape). Don`t worry too Salma mombopastalis spec. nov. Neerland 20 NL-4614 much. I keep on working on Pyralidae and I Flohtschapa gen. nov. Flotschapa rhynchopalpata sp. nov. GD Bergen-op-Zoom am confident to find the correct placement in NETHERLANDS the system sooner or later. Phycitinae e-mail: [email protected] Reference Merulempista colorata spec. nov. Sclerobia triangulata spec. nov. Yang Seup Bae Incheon University Mey, W. (2011). Basic pattern of Lepidoptera Gaana nigronervosa spec. nov. Incheon, KOREA diversity in southwestern Africa. Esperiana Elegia inconspicuella (Ragonot, 1888) e-mail: [email protected] Memoir 6, 320 pp Namibicola karios sp. nov. Namibicola palmwagos sp. nov. Wolfram Mey George J. Balogh Pogononeura hirticostella Ragonot, 1888 6275 Liteolier Street Pogonotropha dicksoni spec. nov. Portage, Michigan 49024-2394 U.S.A. Table 1: Synopsis of species and genera of Pyra- Crambidae e-mail: [email protected] loidea described or commented in Esperiana Crambinae Memoir 6, 2011 Surattha luteola Bassi & Mey, spec. nov. Hans Bänziger Surratha africalis Hampson, 1919 Department of Entomology Pyralidae splendida Bassi & Mey, spec. nov. Faculty of Agriculture Galleriinae Prionapteryx amathusia Bassi & Mey, spec. nov. Chiang Mai University Paroxyptera hererofiliella spec. nov. Parancylolomia Bassi & Mey, gen. nov. Chiang Mai 50200 Parancylolomia relicta Bassi & Mey, spec. nov. THAILAND Pyralinae Glaucocharis maculosa Bassi & Mey, spec. nov. e-mail: [email protected] Hypotia brandbergensis Leraut, 2004 Crambus proteus Bassi & Mey, spec. nov. Hypotia bolinalis (Walker, 1859) Coniesta williami (de Joannis, 1926) [Diatraea], Alejandro Barro Hypotia namaensis spec. nov. comb. nov. Dpto Biología y Humana Hypotia pronamibiella spec. nov. Facultad de Biología Hypotia juergensi spec. nov. Acentropinae Universidad de La Habana Hypotia namaquensis spec. nov. Eoophyla assegaia spec. nov. Calle 25 # 455 entre J e I Hypotia quagga spec. nov. Eoophyla munroei Agassiz & Mey, spec. nov. Vedado CP 10400 Hypotia deckerti spec. nov. La Habana, CUBA e-mail: [email protected]

The Pyraloid Planet 6 - 2012 7 Graziano Bassi Marc Epstein Bob Heckford Via San Martino 25 Senior Insect Biosystematist, Lepidoptera 67 Newnham Road I-10051 Avigliana (TO), Italy Plant Pest Diagnostic Branch GB-PL7 4AW Plympton (Plymouth), S. Devon e-mail: [email protected] California Dept. of Food & Agriculture UNITED KINGDOM 3294 Meadowview Rd e-mail: [email protected] Franziska Bauer Sacramento, CA 95832-1448 Sektion Lepidoptera U.S.A. John B. Heppner Museum für Tierkunde e-mail: [email protected] Florida State Collection of Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Division of Plant Industry Dresden Clifford D. Ferris Florida Department of Agriculture Königsbrücker Landstraße 159 5405 Bill Nye Avenue, R.R. #3 P.O. Box 147100 D-01109 Dresden Laramie, WY 82070 Gainesville, Florida 32614-7100 GERMANY U.S.A. U.S.A. e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected]

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