Volume 12 13 July 2011 Issue 2 TORTS Newsletter of the Troop of Reputed Tortricid Systematists ISSN 1945-807X (print) ISSN 1945-8088 (online) Council meeting and reception) at a venue close to the Denver Museum. The proposed schedule is as follows: Morning – Taxon Group Symposium We will have experts in different taxa presenting the latest systematic information on subfamilies, tribes, and/or genera. We will conclude the morning session with the latest phylogenetic tree generated by molecular data for the entire family. Afternoon – Workshops TORTRICID MEETING IN DENVER, COLORADO IN 2012 There are many tortricid experts who regularly utilize special techniques for As some of you may already know, a joint preparing and studying specimens. This will meeting of the Lepidopterists’ Society and the be an opportunity to share techniques, discuss Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica is being special morphological characters, and learn held at the Denver Museum of Science and some new skills. Nature on 23–29 July 2012. This is a unique opportunity to attend what we hope will be Late Afternoon – Grant Proposal one of the largest LepSoc meetings ever held, with an expanded schedule, outstanding During the 2009 tortricid symposium in facilities, unique field trips and sightseeing Cluj, Romania, we started a discussion about opportunities, and international attendance. applying for a grant to develop a global We are taking this opportunity to host tortricid phylogeny. We will conclude the “Tortricid2012,” an international meeting of meeting with a discussion of the next steps in tortricid systematists to be held prior to the this ambitious project. LepSoc/SEL meeting. This will be a one day meeting to discuss tortricid systematics and Tortricid2012 is being held independent- related topics. The meeting will be held ly from the LepSoc/SEL meeting because we Monday, 23 July (the LepSoc/SEL meeting want to be able to discuss and present starts Tuesday, 24 July with the Executive technical topics related to Tortricidae that 1 VolumeVolume 912 1013 January July 2011 2008 IssueIssue 12 may not be of interest to most general (441 pages), and Diversity of Japanese Lepidoptera meeting attendees. We have held Lepidoptera (445 pages). These sections are half-day symposia in the past, but a half of a followed by 248 beautiful color plates, an day usually is insufficient time to touch on all impressive list of References, and indices in the desired topics. Accordingly, the topics and both English and Japanese. presentations at this meeting will be geared The contribution on Tortricoidea is co- towards experienced tortricid systematists and authored by F. Komai and Y. Nasu. The collectors, although the meeting will be open classification is very up-to-date, with to anyone who is interested. Arotrophora treated as a tribe separate from We do not anticipate any significant extra Archipini and Cnephasiini (based on cost to attend this meeting beyond arriving for unpublished molecular studies by F. Sperling, the LepSoc/SEL meeting one day early. We M. Horak & A. Zwick). As with other family will inform everyone well in advance if we contributions, there are two plates of adults are forced to charge a small registration fee to along with line drawings of wing venation, cover rental of a meeting room once details of larvae, and pupae. Also illustrated by the venue are finalized. photographs are interesting features of the Todd Gilligan and www.tortricid.net are antennae, male forewing costal folds, sponsoring Tortricid2012. Please email Todd abdominal scent structures, genitalia, and the at [email protected] to express interest or anal combs of various larvae. provide suggestions. We will send out more This “Guide” is an impressive tome. The details, a registration form, and call for four editors have done an exceptional job of abstracts later this year. We look forward to enlisting the expertise of 26 authorities on the seeing you in 2012! TODD GILLIGAN Japanese Lepidoptera and have brought _____________________________________ together the contributions of those experts in a well organized, very attractive, contem- NEW BOOK ON porary, and apparently very thorough JAPANESE LEPIDOPTERA treatment. Although the text is nearly all in Japanese, the Latin binomials of host plants and animals, the use of English for “A GUIDE TO THE LEPIDOPTERA OF morphological structures and in figures, and JAPAN” by F. Komai, Y. Yoshiyasu, Y. the English index all combine to make this Nasu, and T. Saito (editors); xx + 1308 work accessible even to those who do not pages, including 248 color plates, 25.5 x 18 read Japanese. JOHN W. BROWN cm. Text in Japanese with English figure ____________________________________ captions. Tokai University Press, Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan. Publication date: February 2011. ISBN 978-4-486-01856-8. Price: TORTRICIDAE E-LIBRARY 40,000 Yen (ca. $473.00 US) including Have you tried yet to find a PDF of a postage (payment: Visa or Master Card, tortricid article on Tortricid.net? If not, just go contact E. Ina at [email protected]). to the home page; click on “Library” on the right side; then click on “Search” under the With over 1300 pages, this Guide is truly image of books; and you’re all set to go. If an encyclopedic treatment of the Lepidoptera you query “Razowski” you will get a list of of Japan. The text is divided into three main over 250 papers by Razowski and co-authors, sections: Morphology and Biology (56 about 40 of which are available as PDFs. pages), Phylogeny and Higher Classification Although the database is still sparsely 2 VolumeVolume 912 1013 January July 2011 2008 IssueIssue 12 populated, there are over 350 papers on Brown, J. W., Hoddle, M. C. 2010. A new tortricids available for downloading. Please species of Histura (Lepidoptera: Tortri- contribute your PDFs to the database by for- cidae: Polyorthini) from Guatemala warding them to me or Todd Gilligan. Thanks attacking avocados (Persea americana) much. JOHN W. BROWN (Lauraceae). Proceedings of the Ento- ____________________________________ mological Society of Washington 112: 10–21. PAPERS ON TORTRICDAE Chambers, U., Bruck, D. J., Olsen, J., Walton, PUBLISHED IN 2010 V. M. 2010. Control of over-wintering filbertworm (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) larvae with Steinernema carpocapsae. Aarvik, L. 2010. Review of East African Journal of Economic Entomology 103 Cochylini (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) (2): 416–422. with description of new species. Chen, M. H., Dorn, S. 2010. Microsatellites Norwegian Journal of Entomology 57: reveal genetic differentiation among 81–108. populations in an insect species with Basoalto, E., Miranda, M., Knight, A.L., high genetic variability in dispersal, the Fuentes-Contreras, E. 2010. Landscape codling moth, Cydia pomonella (L.) analysis of adult codling moth (Lepid- (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Bulletin of optera: Tortricidae) distribution and Entomological Research 100 (1): 75–85. dispersal within typical agroecosystems Clausi, M., Vinciguerra, M. T., Trematerra, P. dominated by apple production in 2010. A new species of moth as insect central Chile. Environmental pest of chestnut in Sicily (Italy). Acta Entomology 39 (5): 1399–1408. Horticulturae 866: 349–352. Blackstein, H., Karisch, T 2010. On the Delbac, L., Lecharpentier, P., Thiery, D. tortrix moths of Tunisia (Tortricidae). 2010. Larval instars determination for Nota Lepidopterologica 33 (2): 219– the European grapevine moth (Lepid- 229. optera: Tortricidae) based on the Blomefield, T. L., Bloem, S., Carpenter, J. E. frequency distribution of head-capsule 2010. Effect of radiation on fecundity widths. Crop Protection 29 (6): 623– and fertility of codling moth Cydia 630. pomonella (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera: Fernandez-Triana, J. L., Huber, J. T. 2010. Tortricidae) from South Africa. Journal Braconid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: of Applied Entomology 134 (3): 216– Braconidae) of nearctic Choristoneura 220. species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), with Brown, J. W., Epstein, M. E., Gilligan, T. M., a summary of other parasitoid families Passoa, S. C., Powell, J. A. 2010. attacking Choristoneura. Canadian Biology, discovery, and history of the Entomologist 142: 295–343. light brown apple moth, Epiphyas Franck, P., Timm, A. E. 2010. Population postvittana (Walker) (Lepidoptera: genetic structure of Cydia pomonella: A Tortricidae: Archipini) in California: an review and case study comparing spatio- example of the importance of local faunal temporal variation. Journal of Applied surveys to document the establishment of Entomology 134 (3): 191–200. exotic insects. American Entomologist 56 Heppner, J. B. 2010. The genus Eumarozia (1): 34–43. and a new species from Peru (Lepid- optera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae). Lepidoptera Novae 3 (4): 228–231. 3 VolumeVolume 912 1013 January July 2011 2008 IssueIssue 12 Heppner, J. B. 2010. Guatemala moth notes, Homona salaconis (Lepidoptera: 3. Eumarozia beckeri in Guatemala Tortricidae). Molecular Ecology Notes (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreu- 10: 580. tinae). Lepidoptera Novae 3 (4): 232– Molinari, F., Anfora, G., Schmidt, S., Villa, 234. M., Ioriatti, C., Pasqualini, E., De Heppner, J. B. 2010. A new species of Cristafaro, A. 2010. Olfactory activity Paranthozela from Peru (Lepidoptera: of ethyl (E,Z)-2,4-decadienoate on adult Tortricidae: Olethreutinae). Lepidoptera oriental fruit moth. Canadian Ento- Novae 3 (1): 61–63. mologist 142: 481–488. Heppner, J. B. 2010. Notes on Vietnam Monteiro, L.B., Souza, A. 2010. Tortricid moths, 15. A new Cerace species for moth control