TORTS Newsletter of the Troop of Reputed Tortricid Systematists ISSN 1945-807X (print) ISSN 1945-8088 (online) Volume 14 5 July 2013 Issue 2 WILLIAM E. MILLER uate students, and departmental service for more than 20 years. During his career, Dr. 1930–2013 Miller authored more than 130 publications, including several monographs. In the realm of Bill Miller was one of a kind. He was a systematics, Bill was a specialist on the tall, polite, soft-spoken gentleman with a keen Tortricidae, subfamily Olethreutinae, interest in and knowledge of Lepidoptera although he also published on a diversity of biology. As a forest entomologist throughout other topics such as body size and its relation most of his career, his research focused on to geography and altitude, the correlation tortricid pests. Along with Nicholas between adult feeding and oviposition, the Obraztsov and Jerry Powell, he set the diversity and life-histories of gall-forming standard for taxonomic work on the tortricid Lepidoptera, and many others. Bill was a fauna of North America from the the mid to dedicated life member of the Lepidopterists’ th later part of the 20 century. The following Society and first joined in 1957. He served on obituary, compiled by Michael Sabourin and the Executive Council, as editor of the Todd Gilligan, appeared in the News of the Society’s Journal from 1985–1988, and as Lepidopterists’ Society, Summer 2013. editor of the Society’s Memoirs for over a “William E. Miller, Ph.D., of Saint Paul, decade, providing the driving force behind the Minnesota, at the age of 82 on 14 March completion of the volume Basic Techniques 2013, from heart complications following a for Observing and Studying Moths & long battle with multiple myeloma. Born in Butterflies. For all these contributions, Bill McAllen, Texas on 13 July 1930, he first received one of the Society’s highest honors, studied at Louisiana State Unversity, the William D. Winter Service Award, at the obtaining a B.S. in Zoology. He received 2007 meeting in Bakersfield, California. In M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in the mid-1950s the last couple years of his life, Dr. Miller from The Ohio State University under the continued to be a presence in the Department guidance of the famous larval expert Alvah of Entomology as often as his health permited Peterson. After a brief appointment in and worked on his manuscripts from home Germany, he served as Project Leader at the and at his beloved cabin in Ely, Minnesota. Lake States Forest Experiment Station in East He is survived by his wife of 35 years, Lansing, Michigan (1956–1964), and at the Jocelyn Muggli, six children, and four North Central Forest Experiment Station on grandchildren. We were priviledged and the St. Paul campus of the University of thankful to have the talents, contributions, and Minnesota (1964–1982). He became an scholarly spirit of William E. Miller in the adjunct (and later emeritus) professor in the service of entomology and lepidopterology University of Minnesota Department of for over six decades. His legacy will live on Entomology in 1976, where he generously in his publications, students, and friends.” contributed to teaching, mentoring of grad- 1 VolumeVolume 914 10 5January July 2013 2008 IssueIssue 12 THEY’RE NOT TORTS, British Isles and a consideration of the BUT THEY’RE STILL PRETTY species’ distribution there. Entomologist’s Gazette 63: 69–83. Beavan, S. D., Heckford, R. J. 2012. Kalmia Not surprisingly, the most common procumbens (L.) Galasso, Banfi & F. Lepidoptera in my backyard are either Conti, a new larval food-plant of invasives or pest species, some of which may Olethreutes schulziana (Fabricius, 1776) be of interest to you or perhaps the collection (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Entomologist’s upon which you work. Right now, the mimosa Gazette 63: 63–42. webworm (Homadaula anisocentra; Galactic- Blomefield, T.L., Giliomee, J. H. 2012. idea), Suzuki's promalactis moth (Promalactis Fecundity and mortality of codling moth, suzukiella; Oecophoridae), and the peachtree Cydia pomonella (L.) (Lepidoptera: borer (Synanthedon exitiosa; Sesiidae) are Tortricidae), under field conditions in common to abundant. In the fall, the South Africa. African Entomology 20: euonymus leaf-notcher (Pryeria sinica, 316–324. Zygaenidae) is common. If you would like Bustamante-Garcia, V., Prieto-Ruiz, J. A., specimens of any of these, please send me Alvarez-Zagoya, R., Carrillo-Parra, A., ([email protected]) a quick e-mail Corral Rivas, J. J., Merlin-Bermudes, E. and I’ll grab a few for you. Be sure to include 2012. Factors affecting seed production of a mailing address. Pinus engelmannii Carr in seed stands in Durango State, Mexico. Southwestern _____________________________________ Entomologist 37: 351–360. Byun, B.-K., Lee, B.-W., Bae, K.-H., Lee, K.- PAPERS ON TORTRICDAE G. 2012. A review of the genus Graph- PUBLISHED IN 2012 olita (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in North Korea. Animal Systematics, Evolution & Aarvik, L., Karisch, T., Marthinsen, G. 2012. Diversity 28: 291–296. Review of the Afrotropical genus Dra- Byun, B.-K., Lee, B.-W., Lee, E.-S., Choi, D.- contogena Diakonoff, 1970 (Lepidoptera, S., Park, Y.M., Yang, C.Y., Lee, S.K., Tortricidae) with descriptions of eight Cho, S. 2012. Erratum to A review of the new species. Zootaxa 3478: 345–372. genus Adoxophyes (Lepidoptera Tortrici- Al Bitar, L., Gorb, S.N., Zebitz, C.P.W., dae) in Korea, with description of A. Voigt, D. 2012. Egg adhesion of the paraorana sp. nov. Animal Cells and codling moth Cydia pomonella L. Systems 16(1): 85. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) to various Byun, B.-K., Lee, B.-W., Lee, E.-S., Choi, D.- substrates: I. Leaf surfaces of different S., Park, Y.M., Yang, C.Y., Lee, S.K., apple cultivars. Arthropod-Plant Inter- Cho, S. 2012. A review of the genus actions 6(3): 471–488. Adoxophyes (Lepidoptera Tortricidae) in Avtzis, D. N. 2012. The distribution of Korea, with description of A. paraorana Pammene fasciana L. (Lepidoptera: sp. nov. Animal Cells and Systems 16(1): Tortricidae) in Greece: an underestimated 154–161. chestnut-feeding pest. International Carraher, C., Authier, A., Steinwender, B., Journal of Pest Management 58: 115–119. Newcomb, R.D. 2012. Sequence compari- Beavan, S. D., Heckford, R. J. 2012. sons of odorant receptors among tortricid Discovery of the larva of Gynnidomorpha moths reveal different rates of molecular premixtana ([Denis & Schiffermüller], evolution among family members. PLoS 1775) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in the ONE 7(6): e38391. 2 VolumeVolume 914 10 5January July 2013 2008 IssueIssue 12 Comas, C., Avilla, J., Sarasúa, M. J., Albajes, Tortricidae), with notes on biology from R., Ribes-Dasi, M. 2012. Lack of aniso- India. Entomological News 122: 354–365. tropic effects in the spatial distribution of Hayden, J. E. 2012. First U.S. records of Cydia pomonella pheromone trap catches Amorbia concavana (Zeller) (Lepidoptera: in Catalonia, NE Spain. Crop Protection Tortricidae). Insecta Mundi 271: 1–4. 34: 88–95. Heckford, R. J., Beavan, S. D. 2012. Celypha Dombroskie, J. J., Sperling, F. A. H. 2012. rufana (Scopoli, 1763) (Lepidoptera: Phylogeny of Nearctic Pandemis (Lepid- Tortricidae): an account of the early optera: Tortricidae), with focus on species stages in captivity. Entomologist’s boundaries in the P. limitata group. Gazette 63: 217–221. Annals of the Entomological Society of Henwood, B. P. 2012. Gynnidomorpha America 105: 768–780. premixtana ([Denis & Schiffermüller], Follett, P. A., Snook, K. 2012. Irradiation for 1775) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) reared quarantine control of the invasive light from Pedicularis palustris L. in the Outer brown apple moth (Lepidoptera: Hebrides. Entomologist’s Gazette 63: 202. Tortricidae) and a generic dose for Huemer, P., Zlatkov, B., Baixeras, J. 2012. tortricid eggs and larvae. Journal of Dichrorampha dinarica, new species, a Economic Entomology 105: 1971–1978. century of confusion in European Gallego, K. R., Lerma, J. M., Echeverri, C. lepidopterology (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) G., Brown, J. W. 2012. Description of the resolved by combining morphology and early stages of Eccopsis galapagana Raz- DNA barcoding. Zootaxa 3389: 41–50. owski & Landry (Lepidoptera: Tortrici- Kruse, J. J. 2012 Description of Amorbi- dae), a defoliator of Prosopis juliflora morpha Kruse, new genus, from Mexico (Sw.) DC (Fabaceae) in Colombia. and the southern United States (Lepid- Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 66: optera: Tortricidae: Sparganothini). 156–164. Zootaxa 3177: 33–42. Groenen, F. 2012. The Papuan Tortricidae- Kulfan, M. 2012. Structure of lepidopteron- Fauna (Lepidoptera): Dicephalarcha sicca cenoses on oaks Quercus dalechampii and Diakonoff, 1973 (Olethreutinae: Q. cerris in Central Europe and estimation Olethreutini), new for Papua. Suara of the most important species. Munnis Serangga Papua 7: 82-84. Entomology & Zoology 7: 732–741. Groenen, F., Schreurs, A. 2012. Cnephasia Lam, W., Rota, J., Brown, J. W. 2012. A (Cnephasiella) delnoyana Groenen & preliminary list of the leaf-roller moths Schreurs, sp. n. from Spain (Lepidoptera: (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) of Virginia. Tortricidae). SHILAP Revista de Banisteria 37 (2011): 3–37. Lepidopterologia 40 (159): 295–298. Lu, P.-F., Huang, L.-Q., Wang, C.-Z. 2012. Grove, T., de Beer, M. S., Joubert, P. H. Identification and field evaluation of pear 2012. Host status of commercial cultivars fruit volatiles attractive to the oriental to Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Lepidoptera: fruit moth, Cydia molesta. Journal of Tortricidae) in South Africa. Journal of Chemical Ecomology 38: 1003–1016. Economic Entomology 105: 1954–1962. Metzler, E. H., Forbes, G. S. 2012. The Gupta, A., Ghosh, A., Baby, N.L., Jalali, S.K. Lepidoptera of White Sands National 2012. Morphological and molecular Monument 5: Two new species of characterization of Apanteles mohandasi Cochylini (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae, Sumodan & Narendran (Hymenoptera: Tortricinae). Zootaxa 3444: 51–60. Braconidae), a solitary endoparasitoid of Mutanen, M., Aarvik, L., Huemer, P., Kaila, Pammene critica Meyrick (Lepidoptera: L., Karsholt, O., Tuck, K. 2012.