Volume 8 23 July 2007 Issue 2 TORTS Newsletter of the Troop of Reputed Tortricid Systematists REPLACE CRYPTOPHELBIA synonymy would be to petition the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature WITH PSEUDOGALLERIA? (ICZN) to suppress Pseudogalleria in order to preserve stability. Through a number of conversations with Marianne Horak asked me to query the Marianne Horak, she has convinced me that the readers of TORTS for your opinions regarding monotypic North American genus the possible alternative solutions: (1) Pseudogalleria Ragonot, 1884, and the Old synonymize the two genera under the senior World genus Cryptophlebia Walsingham, 1900, synonym Pseudogalleria, or (2) petition the are almost certainly synonymous. Although the ICZN to suppress Pseudogalleria for the two are somewhat dissimilar in facies, they are purpose of maintaining stability, and continuing remarkably similar in the male and female the use of Cryptophlebia. genitalia. Adamski & Brown (2001) identified Please forward your comments on this Pseudogalleria as the sister group to matter to me or Marianne, and I will present the Cryptophlebia, but their analyses were not results in the next issue of TORTS. Thank you based on species-level taxa, relying instead on for your consideration. the recognized genera without questioning their _____________________________________ monophyly. The proposed synonymy of the two COMMITTEE ON TORTRICID genera would have a profound affect on the NOMENCLATURE economic literature and those who depend upon it owing to the large number of papers that deal In the last issue of TORTS, I reported with Cryptophlebia species as pests worldwide. that Dr. B.-K. Byun has proposed the It is possible that the outcry from economic development of a committee for upgrading and entomologists would be deafening! However, I correcting the nomenclature in World Catalogue deal with plant protection and quarantine of Tortricidae once the data are converted into personnel on a daily basis, and they adapted a database by Dr. Joaquin Baixeras. I have fairly rapidly to the use of Thaumatotibia for always believed that we could do more as a the pest species formerly (and for many years) “community” than we can do as individuals, referred to as Cryptophlebia leucotreta and I continue to believe this is true. If you (Meyrick) (the false codling moth), as revised would like to participate in such a committee, by Komai (1999). please contact Dr. Byun. An alternative to the proposed 1 Volume 8 23 July 2007 Issue 2 DISCOVERY OF and widespread on those islands. Meyrick LIGHT BROWN APPLE MOTH (1937) reported its discovery in the United Kingdom. Bradley et al. (1973) reported that it IN NORTH AMERICA was first established in Cornwall in the U.K., and that it subsequently spread throughout Leave it to Dr. Jerry Powell, pseudo- much of the country. Bond (1998) first reported retired professor of entomology from the it from Ireland. In the U.K. it apparently has not University of California, Berkeley, to cause become an economically important pest of trouble... make that “big trouble”...in California. crops. For years the California Department of Larvae are highly polyphagous and have Food and Agriculture (CDFG) and U.S. been reared from leaves, flowers, and fruit of a Department of Agriculture (USDA) have feared variety of herbaceous plants, including Acacia, the potential arrival of the light brown apple Baccharis, Buddleia, Centranthus, moth, Epiphyas postvittana (Walker), in North Chrysanthemum, Citrus, Crataegus, Escallonia, America. However, negative results from Eucalyptus, Euonymus, Fragaria, Hebe, trapping projects have brought a degree of Hedera, Hypericum, Jasminum, Lavandula, comfort. All that changed last year when Ligustrum, Litchi, Malus, Mesembryanthemum, TORTS founder Jerry Powell discovered a male Mentha, Pinus, Prunus, Pulicaria, Pyracantha, E. postvittana at the blacklight sheet at his Quercus, Rosa, Rubus, Urtica, and Vitis, plus home in the Berkeley Hills, California. After a many other garden and greenhouse plants. second specimen was collected and Stay tuned to see what affect this little subsequently identified by Marianne Horak, moth has on the economy of America’s most panic struck. Thousands of pheromone traps prodigious agricultural state - California. were deployed and quarantines were _____________________________________ implemented, hitting those in the nursery industry the hardest. 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