WOLFGANG SPEIDEL & WOLFRAM MEY

Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin

CATALOGUE OF THE ORIENTAL ACENTROPINAE (, )

Speidel, W. & W. Mey, 1999. Catalogue of the Oriental Acentropinae (Lepidoptera, Cram- bidae). – Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 142: 125-142, figs.1-3. [ISSN 0040-7496]. Published 22 September 1999. The catalogue contains all taxa of Acentropinae (= Nymphulinae) described from the Oriental Region with the references for every taxon. There are many new generic combinations for which the catalogue should be consulted. New synonyms: Neoschoenobia decoloralis Hampson, 1919 is a new junior synonym of Neoschoenobia testacealis Hampson, 1900; dohrni Hering, 1903 and Ephormotris oc- topis Meyrick, 1933 are new junior synonyms of Ephormotris dilucidalis Guérin-Méneville, [1832] 1829-1858 (Botys) comb. n. tripunctalis Snellen, 1876 is a junior primary homonym of Oligostigma tripunctalis Walker, [1866] 1865. This and the replacement name klimai Bryk, 1937 are new junior synonyms of Eoophyla parapomasalis Hampson, 1897 (Aulacodes) comb. n.; Oligostigma auropunctalis var. javanica Strand, 1914 is a new junior synonym of Eoophyla excisalis Snellen, 1901 (Oligostigma) comb. n.; Oligostigma hapilistale Strand, 1919 is a new junior synonym of Strepsinoma croesusalis Walker, 1859 (Cataclysta); Stenicula Snellen, 1901 and Micromania Swinhoe, 1894 (junior homonym of Micromania Christoph, 1893) are provisionally treated as new junior synonyms of Warren, 1890; Paraponyx [sic] rugosalis Möschler, 1890 is a new junior synonym of fluctuos- alis Zeller, 1852 (). Corespondence: W. Speidel, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Museum für Naturkunde, In- validenstr. 43, D-10115 Berlin. Germany. E-mail: [email protected] Key-words. – ; Crambidae; Acetropinae; Nymphulinae; catalogue; Oriental region

The Acentropinae belong to the pyraloid family or catalogues. Checklists provide a synopsis of the Crambidae. This is a large family with numerous species occurring in a certain region and give the cur- species. Several monophyletic groups have been estab- rent state of knowledge including the results of mod- lished within the Crambidae (Minet 1981) which are ern taxonomic work. Secondly, a checklist is a neces- traditionally treated as subfamilies. The Acentropinae sary step in consolidating previous knowledge in seem to be most closely related to the Schoenobiinae order to allow research on the taxonomic group in (Yoshiyasu 1985, Passoa 1988). So far 183 described question. It is a prerequisite to all future revisions. species of Acentropinae are known from the Oriental Lists of Lepidoptera including the Acentropinae have Region. More species are recorded from the Neotrop- been available only for more limited geographical ar- ical Region which is apparently the richest biogeo- eas of the Oriental Region, e.g. Taiwan (Heppner & graphical region with 247 named species (Munroe in Inoue 1992), Thailand (Yoshiyasu 1987) and Nepal Heppner 1995). Most species of Acentropinae have (Robinson et al. 1995). aquatic larvae. Only a very few species are known to This is the first modern checklist of all Acentropi- have terrestrial larval instars (e.g. Nymphicula). The nae known to occur in the Oriental Biogeographical monophyly of the subfamily has been established by Region as a whole. larval and pupal characters: The setae S1 to S3 of the The geographical range adopted for the Oriental larval head are in a line (Passoa 1988) and the stigma- Region is shown in the map (fig. 1). In the Southeast, ta of abdominal segments 2 to 4 of the pupa are raised the boundaries are between Sulawesi and the Moluc- and chimney-like (Speidel 1981, Passoa 1988). cas, and between Sumbawa and Flores. In the West, The high biodiversity, especially in the tropics, the region extends along the southern slopes of the consequently necessitates the production of checklists Himalayas and Karakorum as far as Nuristan in Af-

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Fig. 1. Range of the Orien- tal biogeographical region as adopted in the present catalogue.

ghanistan. China is almost completely included, ex- priority of Acentropinae was stated (Speidel 1981). cept for the northernmost provinces from Xinjiang to Several authors do not accept the name Acentropinae, Heilongjiang. The inclusion of the major part of Chi- because Nymphulinae has been in general use for the na means that some palearctic species are listed here. aquatic . However, we cannot suppress the se- However, the distribution of all acentropine species nior name Acentropinae, as the synonymy is a subjec- in China is very poorly known. It is quite possible tive one based on a phylogenetic hypothesis. The that these palearctic species will turn out to be widely revalidation of Nymphulinae would be possible, if distributed in adjacent parts of the Oriental Region. new evidence is forwarded to show that rep- resents the most basal clade within the subfamily as currently defined. However, Acentria seems to be a N  A highly specialized offshoot of younger clades of the In the past, the subfamily was generally known as subfamily (Speidel 1998). In our opinion, the present Nymphulinae or Hydrocampinae and the Acentro- state of knowledge does not justify a change in the pinae were treated as a separate subfamily with only priority of these family group names which were both one species, Acentria ephemerella [Denis & Schif- in use before their synonymisation. In an application fermüller], 1775. Recently, the subfamilies Acentro- to the ICZN, published while the present paper was in pinae and Nymphulinae were synonymised and the press, the commission was asked to give precedence to

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