Volume 10 7 July 2009 Issue 2 TORTS Newsletter of the Troop of Reputed Tortricid Systematists ISSN 1945-807X (print) ISSN 1945-8088 (online) CHANGES IN THE LEPIDOPTERA COLLECTION Several curatorial staff including myself will remain at the Wandsworth outstation to AT THE NATURAL HISTORY oversee the departure of the collections until MSUEUM, LONDON the move has been completed in November 2009. After that we will still need a short The following message was received from period to establish new working regimes in Kevin Tuck on 28 April 2009. DC2 and to remap and consolidate the new “This is a circular message to provide an layout. update on the move of the BMNH Inevitably there will also be some Lepidoptera collections to the new “Darwin interruptions to communications as staff Centre 2” (DC2) facility at the BMNH’s main transfer to other office areas or because they site in South Kensington, west London. are out accompanying contractor’s vehicles. Please accept my apologies that it has Please therefore accept my apologies in been necessary to delay sending this update advance should there be any delays in until now. There have been many responding to correspondence or phone calls. uncertainties, and rather than give constantly Thank you for your patience and changing information it was better to wait understanding during these upheavals. The until the key matters were finalised. Even so, new DC2 facility is intended to provide state- some dates and priorities might still change as of-the-art collections storage, working a result of unexpected events or possible environs and ancillary services for the slippage. Museum’s collections, and I look forward to From 01 May 2009 the BMNH welcoming many of you as scientific visitors Lepidoptera collections will be closed to there in due course.” visitors until the move has been completed. The move contractors will start to label Kevin Tuck collection tranches from that date and the _____________________________________ move will initiate on 18 May. The move sequence is highly complex and will also involve the curatorial staff moving in three EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF phases. For this reason it is not possible to LEPIDOPTEROLOGY indicate exactly when particular collections th will cease to be accessible and hence staff The 16 European Congress of Lepid- unable to answer enquiries about them. opterology was held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 25-31 May 2009. The meeting drew a large international group of lepidopterists, 1 VolumeVolume 910 10 7January July 2009 2008 IssueIssue 11 including a number of TORTS members: Gomes-Laranjo, J. (eds.), Proceedings of Joaquin Baixeras, John Brown, Richard the Second Iberian Congress on Chestnut, Brown, Jason Dombroskie, Todd Gilligan, Villa Real, Portugal, 20-22 June 2007. Peter Huemer, Jerry Powell, Dan Rubinoff, Acta Horticulturae 784: 175-179. and Marja van der Straten, plus several other Aurel, L. 2008. A new braconid parasitoid of tortricid enthusiasts (e.g., David Agassiz, the tortricid moth Cydia alazon (Diak- Ingvar Svenson). onoff, 1976) from the Canary Islands, The program featured an afternoon Spain (Hymenoptera, Braconidae: Micro- workshop focused on tortricid phylogeny gastrinae). Entomologist's Monthly organized by Todd Gilligan, with formal Magazine 144: 103-107. contributed talks by Boyan Zlatkov, Dan Avgin, S. A., Karaman, S., Bahadiroglu, C. Rubinoff (with co-author Jerry Powell), Jason 2008. Laboratory assays of plant extracts Dombroskie, Todd Gilligan, and Richard against Lobesia botrana (Denis & Schiff- Brown (with co-author Joaquin Baixeras), and ermüller) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) informal presentations by Jerry Powell and larvae. Journal of Entomological Science Joaquin Baixeras. After the workshop, and 43: 423–425. again the following morning, several folks got Balazy, S., Wrzosek, M., Sosnowska, D., together to continue discussions regarding Tkaczuk, C., Muszewska, A. 2008. problems with the current familial Laboratory trials to infect insects and classification. The consensus is that we have a nematodes by some acaropathogenic long way to go before we understand Hirsutella strains (Mycota: Clavicip- relationships among tribes…or actually are itaceous anamorphs). Journal of able to defined some tribes. Invertebrate Pathology 97: 103-113. The meeting provided ample opportunity [Cydia pomonella] for interactions with colleagues and friends, Beltran, E. M. 2008. Presencia en la Peninsula and the food and drink were outstanding. The Iberica de Epiblema cirsianum (Zeller, next Congress is scheduled for 2011 in 1843) (Tortricidae), y registros de otros Luxemburg. Microlepidopteros poco citados de España _____________________________________ (Lepidoptera) [Presence in the Iberian Peninsula of Epiblema cirsianum (Zeller, PAPERS ON TORTRICDAE 1843) (Tortricidae), and records of other poorly known Microlepidoptera from PUBLISHED IN 2008 Spain (Insecta: Lepidoptera)]. Boletin de la SEA 42: 371-375. Aarvik, L. 2008. New data on Bactrini (Lep- Bennett, A. M. R. 2008. Review and idoptera, Tortricidae) from Africa. Nor- identification keys to the ichneumonid wegian Journal of Entomology 55: 7-13. parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Ichneumon- Aarvik, L. 2008. Taxonomic notes on the idae) of Nearctic Choristoneura species African leaf-roller moth Gypsonoma (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Canadian paradelta (Meyrick, 1925) (Lepidoptera, Entomologist 140: 1-47. Tortricidae). Norwegian Journal of Brown, J. W. 2008. Review of the neotropical Entomology 55: 15-18. genus Cacocharis Walsingham (Lepid- Aguin-Pombo, D., Arraiol, A., Aguiar, A. M. optera: Tortricidae: Olethreutini), with a F., Freitas, E., Angeli, G. 2008. Large new synonymy and comments on its host infestation of chestnuts by Cydia moths in plants and geographic distribution. Pro- Madeira Island: monitorization of Cydia ceedings of the Entomological Society of splendana populations with pheromone Washington 110: 533-542. lures. In: Abreu, C. G., Peixoto, F. P., 2 VolumeVolume 910 10 7January July 2009 2008 IssueIssue 11 Brown, J. W., Komai, F. 2008. Key to larvae Cole, N., How, S. Guernsey, J., Johnston, J. of Castanea-feeding olethreutinae fre- 2008. Organic apple systems: constraints quently intercepted at U.S. ports-of-entry and opportunities for producers in local (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Tropical and global markets: introduction to the Lepidoptera Research 18: 2-4. colloquium. HortScience 43(1): 6-11. Brown, J. W., Nishida, K. 2008. A new [Cydia pomonella] species of Acleris (Lepidoptera: Tor- Delmas, S. 2008. Eucosma balatonana tricidae) from high elevations of Costa (Osthelder, 1937), espece boreo-alpine Rica, feeding on Rubus (Rosaceae). nouvelle pour la chaine jurassienne (Lep- SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterologia 36 idoptera Tortricidae) [Eucosma bala- (143): 341-348. tonana (Osthelder, 1937), a new boreo- Bryant, T., Bond, K. G. M. 2008. Bactra alpine species from the mountains of Jura venosana (Zeller, 1847) (Lep.: Tor- (Lepidoptera Tortricidae)]. Bulletin Men- tricidae) new to the British Isles from suel de la Societe Linneenne de Lyon Ireland. Entomologist's Record and 77(1-2): 26-28. Journal of Variation 120: 97-99. De Prins, W., Baugnee, J.-Y. 2008. Clepsis Buchner, P. 2008. Depressaria discipunctella dumicolana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), (Depressariidae), Elachista differens new to the Belgian fauna. Phegea 36(4): (Elachistidae), Dichrorampha podoliensis 127-130. (Tortricidae) and Antigastra catalaunalis Fazekas, I. 2008. The species of the genus (Crambidae) new for Austria as well as Aethes Billberg 1821 of Hungary (Lepid- Elatobia fuliginosella (Tineidae) and optera: Tortricidae). Natura Somogyiensis Ethmia haemorrhoidella (Ethmiidae) new 12: 133-168. for Lower Austria (Lepidoptera). Beit- Ferris, C.D., Kruse, J. J. 2008. A new species raege zur Entomofaunistik 8: 141-145. of Zeiplaphera Treitschke (Tortricidae). Byun, B.-K., Yan, S.-C, Lee, B.-W., Li, C.-D. Journal of the Lepid-opterists' Society 62: 2008. Four newly recorded species of the 31-35. genus Epinotia Hübner (Lepidoptera: Fuentes-Contreras, E., Espinoza, J. L., Tortricidae) from northeast China. Journal Lavandero, B., Ramirez, C. C. 2008. of Asia-Pacific Entomology 11: 181-184. Population genetic structure of codling Castrejon, G. V. R., Valdez, C. J. 2008. moth (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) from Morphological characteristics of antennal apple orchards in central Chile. Journal of sensilla in Talponia batesi (Lepidoptera : Economic Entomology 101: 190-198. Tortricidae). Annals of the Entomological Funakoshi, S. 2008. Tortricid moths feeding Society of America 101: 181-188. on Quercus glauca Thunb. Japan Heter- Cortivo, G. dal, Duso, C., Borgo, M. 2008. ocerists’ Journal 247: 399-401. Interventi insetticidi per il contenimento Gilligan, T. M., Wenzel, J. W. 2008. Extreme della tignoletta della vite in provincia di intraspecific variation in Hystrichophora Treviso [Trials to control European vine (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) genitalia – moth populations in vineyards located in questioning the lock-and-key hypothesis. the Treviso Province], 185-192. In Brun- Ann. Zool. Fennici 45: 465-477. elli, A. (ed.), Giornate Fitopatologiche Gilligan, T. M., Wright, D. J., Gibson, L. D. 2008, Cervia (RA), 12-14 marzo 2008, 2008. Olethreutine Moths of the Midwest- Volume 1. Bologna, Italy. ern United States. An Identification Cox, A., van der Wolf, H. 2008. The female Guide. Bulletin of the Ohio Biological of Cochylimorpha salinarida (Lepid- Survey, new series, Volume 16 (2), 334 optera: Tortricidae, Tortricinae). Phegea pp. 36(1): 21-22.