Atteva hysginiella ( Wallengren, 1861 )

Wilson, John, Landry, Jean-François, Janzen, Daniel, Hallwachs, Winnie, Nazari, Vazrick, Hajibabaei, Mehrdad & Hebert, Paul, 2010, Identity of the ailanthus webworm moth (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutidae), a complex of two species: evidence from DNA barcoding, morphology and ecology, ZooKeys 46 (46), pp. 41-60 : 54-55

Atteva hysginiella ( Wallengren, 1861)

Amblothridia hysginiella Wallengren, 1861: 386 . Type: PANAMA (NHRS)

Cydosia sylpharis Butler, 1877 : [87]. Type: Albermarle Island, Galapagos, ECUADOR (BMNH). Synonymized by Meyrick, 1914: 21.

Atteva monerythyra Meyrick, 1926: 278 . Type: Galapagos Islands, ECUADOR (CL Collenette collector, 31 st July 1924) (BMNH). Synonymized by Landry and Landry, 1998: 33.

Forewings. The three long, slender yellowish lines on a shiny black background, along the forewings readily distinguish this species from all others in the genus ( Figure 3C ).

Habitat and food plants. Landry and Landry (1998) gave a detailed description of adults, immatures and life-history, with the caterpillar feeding on Castela galapageia (Simaroubaceae) .

Distribution. Restricted to the Galapagos Islands ( Figure 2 ). Th e type locality recorded as being in Panama has its origin in a labeling error ( Becker 2009).

Figures

Figure 2. Map showing the distribution of Atteva specimens examined as part of this study. Notable specimens are highlighted in red.

Figure 3. A The original figure of Atteva punctella from Plate 372 in Stoll (1781). Th e illustration is 25 mm wide in the work B Phalaena Tinea punctella Stoll (= A. pustulella Fabricius), specimen USNCN- CLEP00056027 (USNM) C Atteva hysginiella, specimen CNCLEP00060122 (CNC) D A. zebra, specimen CNCLEP00056033 (USNM).