TORTS Newsletter of the Troop of Reputed Tortricid Systematists ISSN 1945-807X (print) ISSN 1945-8088 (online) Volume 19 29 June 2018 Issue 2 th The North American Microlepidopterists' 67 ANNUAL MEETING Meeting has become a standard fixture of the OF THE LEPIDOPTERISTS’ annual meeting. It will be held at Carleton SOCIETY, OTTAWA, University on 10 July 2018. Organized by Vazrick Nazari, these single-day sessions are ONTARIO, CANADA a casual yet highly informative get-together for the exchange of ideas and information, The 67th annual meeting of the Lepid- and for discussing research progress on opterists' Society will be held 11–15 July microlepidoptera. I hope to see you there. 2018 as a combined meeting with the Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica (SEL), at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Based on the program, the meeting has attracted a diverse audience of Lepidoptera enthusiasts from around the globe, with registrants from Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Korea, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, and _____________________________________ the United States. Meeting co-chairs Vazrick Nazari and Chris Schmidt have committed DONALD WRIGHT significant time and energy to the meeting, and together with the Organizing Committee COLLECTION RECEIVED BY (Peter Hall, Don Lafontaine, Christi Jaeger), THE U. S. NATIONAL they have put together what promises to be a MUSEUM OF NATURAL highly interesting program, reasonable accommodations, access to a world-class HISTORY Lepidoptera collection (at the CNC), and local collecting opportunities, which combined Don Wright is the author or co-author of provide the perfect setting for a summer numerous papers on North American meeting. Eucosmini and two excellent monographic The meeting includes four days treatments of that fauna (i.e., Wright, D. J. & (Wednesday through Saturday) of contributed Gilligan, T. M. 2015. Eucosma Hübner of the papers and posters, with evening field trips. contiguous United States and Canada The last day of the meeting, Sunday, is (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini). Wedge reserved for field trips, as well. Entomological Research Foundation, Alamo- gordo, New Mexico, 256 pp.; and Wright, D. 1 VolumeVolume 919 1029 January June 2018 2008 IssueIssue 12 J. & Gilligan, T. M. 2017. Pelochrista Don’s collection is strongest in material Lederer of the contiguous Unites States and from the midwestern U.S., but also includes Canada (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucos- significant holdings from the western U.S., mini). Wedge Entomological Research particularly Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, Foundation, Alamogordo, New Mexico, 376 with many of the specimens collected by his pp.). Over his nearly 40-year career as a colleague John Nordin. The Wright material faculty member of the Department of represents a significant research resource, and Mathematical Sciences at the University of together with the existing collection, brings Cincinnati, Don developed an interst in moths the Smithsonian’s Eucosmini to the level of that eventually led him to Tortricidae. During one of the finest in the world, certainly the this time, Don amassed an impressive best in the Western Hemisphere. collection of Lepidoptera, strongest in the Eucosmini of North America. Over the past decade, Don has made small donations of specimens to the U.S. National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, but in 2017 the lion’s share of his collection found its way to the USNM, with a final tally of 10,934 specimens, including hundreds of slides and about 35 holotypes. Don also donated 1,587 illustrations of genitalia and other morpho- logical features (used in publications) to the Entomology Illustration Archives, USNM. ___________________________ NEWSY TIDBITS Hanna Royals, a graduate student at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, working under the guidance of Todd Gilligan, recently passed her oral examination and filed her Master’s Thesis, which is a systematic review of the genus Paralobesia of the U.S and Canada. A piece of that work, in collaboration with her advisor 2 VolumeVolume 919 1029 January June 2018 2008 IssueIssue 12 and Jean-François Landry, is in press in Brito, R., Vargas, H. A. 2017. A new leaf- Zootaxa. tying Episimus Walsingham (Lepidoptera: Joaquin Baixeras is collaborating with Tortricidae) feeding on the vulnerable tree José Vicente Perez investigating the Haplorhus peruviana (Anacardiaceae) in morphology and taxonomic distribution of the the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. costal roll (a male secondary feature) in the Studies on Neotropical Fauna and hindwing of Cochylini. They would be Environment 52: 1–7. pleased to correspond with anyone concerning Brown, J. W., Timm, A. E. 2017. Des- the occurrence of this character in Cochylini. criptions of two new species of Ecdy- The Biodiversity Institute on Ontario, tolopha Zeller, 1875 (Lepidoptera: Tor- University of Guelph, continued long-term tricidae: Olethreutinae), one from the barcoding of Tortricidae at the U.S. National southwestern U.S. and one from Vene- Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Wash- zuela, with comments on Ecdytolopha ington, DC in 2017. The most recent batch of barcodes. Proceedings of the Entomo- material for which barcodes were captured logical Society of Washington 119: 9–17. included nearly 100 specimens from Fiji and Brown, J. W., Timm, A. E. 2017. Celsumaria: New Caledonia, with many of the specimens A new genus of Grapholitini from the representing the first examples of genera in Afrotropical Region (Lepidoptera: the BOLD database. Tortricidae). Annals of the Ditsong The combined annual meeting of the Natural History Museum 7: 97–108. Southern Lepidopterists’ Society and the Brunet, B. M., Blackburn, G. S., Muirhead, Association for Tropical Lepidoptera will be K., Lumley, L. M., Boyle, B., Lévesque, held in the Biological Sciences Building at R. C., Cusson, M., Sperling, F. A. H. Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, 2017. Two’s company, three’s a crowd: Georgia, 14–16 September 2018. There will new insights on spruce budworm species be opportunities to collect on campus, and boundaries using genotyping-by- James Adams has agreed to lead a field trip to sequencing in an integrative species the Ohoopee Dunes area. assessment (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). ____________________________ Systematic Entomology 42: 317–328. Byun, B.-K., Kim, D.-S., Yoon, H.-K., Paek, W.-K. 2017. Descriptions of two new PAPERS ON TORTRICIDAE species of the genus Cochylidia (Lepid- PUBLISHED IN 2017 optera: Tortricidae) with a catalog from Korea. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiver- sity 10: 555–558. Aarvik, L., DePrins, W. 2017. The import- Cepeda, D. E. 2017. Una nueva especie del ance of correct labeling of types: an género Eugnosta Hübner, de Chile (Lep- example in Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) and idoptera: Tortricidae). Insecta Mundi its rectification. Zootaxa 4347: 595–597. 0565: 1–6. Adams, C. G., McGhee, P. S., Schenker, J. H. Corley, M. F. V., Ferreira, S. 2017. DNA Gut, L. J., Miller, J. R. 2017. Line-trap- barcoding reveals sexual dimorphism in ping of codling moth (Lepidoptera: Tor- Isotrias penedana Trematerra, 2013 tricidae): A novel approach to improving (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae, Chlidanotinae). the precision of capture numbers in traps Zootaxa 4221: 594–600. monitoring pest density. Journal of Econ- Dube, N., Zacharides, C., Munyai, T, Uyi, O. omic Entomology 110: 1508–1511. 2017. Laboratory studies on the biology and host range of Dichrorampha odorata 3 VolumeVolume 919 1029 January June 2018 2008 IssueIssue 12 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), a biological Judd, G. J. R., Knight, A. L., El-Sayed, A. M. control agent for Chromolaena odorata 2017. Development of kaormone-based (Asteraceae). Biocontrol Science and lures and traps for targeting Spilonota Technology 27: 222–236. ocellana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in apple Dupuis, J. R., Brunet, B. M. T., Bird, H. M., orchards treated with sex pheromones. Lumley, L. M., Fagua, G., Boyle, B., Canadian Entomologist 149: 662–676. Levesque, R., Cusson, M., Powell, J. A., Light, D. M., Grant, J., Haff, R. P., Knight, A. Sperling, F. A. H. 2017. Genome-wide L. 2017. Addition of pear ester enhances SNPs resolve phylogenetic relationships disruption of mating by female codling in the North American spruce budworm moth (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in walnut (Choristoneura fumiferana) species com- orchards treated with meso dispensers. plex. Molecular Phylogenetics and Environmental Entomology 46: 319–327. Evolution 111: 158–168. Lu, S., Li, H.-H. 2017. Review of the species Ganai, M., Khan, Z. 2017. Diversity of of Strophedra Herrich-Schäffer, 1853 tortricid moths (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) from China (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: in Kashmir division, Jammu & Kashmir, Olethreutinae: Grapholitini). Zootaxa India. Journal of Entomology and Zoo- 4318 (2): 339–350. logy Studies 5(4): 678–692. Maharramova, S. M., Ayberk, H. 2017. New Garczynski, S. F., Martin, J. A., Griset, M., records of leafrollers reared in Azerbaijan Willett, L. S., Cooper, W. R., Swisher, K. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Linzer Biolog- D., Unruh, T. R. 2017. CRISPR/Cas9 ische Beiträge 49 (1): 677–686. editing of the codling moth (Lepidoptera: Matveev, E., Kwon, J. J., Judd, G. J. R., Tortricidae) CpomOR1 gene affects egg Evenden, M. L. 2017. The effect of cold production and viability. Journal of storage of mass-reared codling moths Economic Entomology 110: 1847–1855. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) on subsequent Gastón, J., Vives Moreno,