Cochylimorpha scrophulana Razowski, 1963

Alipanah, Helen, 2009, Synopsis of the Cochylini (Tortricidae: Tortricinae: Cochylini) of Iran, with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 2245, pp. 1-31 : 13-14

Cochylimorpha scrophulana Razowski, 1963

Stenodes scrophulana Razowski, 1963 , Acta zool. cracov. 8: 265. TL: Iran.

Material examined. 33, Semirom, Zamān-Kahriz (Esfahān Prov.), 2380 m, 12.viii.1978, Pāzuki, Borumand leg., 13, Semirom, Pādena, Tang-e Bijan (Esfahān Prov.), 2930 m, 13.viii.1978, Pāzuki, Borumand leg.; 1Ƥ 23, Yāsuj, Ganjegun (Kohgiluyeh & Boyerahmad Prov.), N 30˚25ˏ0˝3, E 51˚44ˏ17˝, 2190 m, 17.vi.2005, Zahiri, Nematiān, Falsafi leg.; 1Ƥ, 28 km E Borujerd, Zāllān Rd., 2300 m, 27.vii.1975, Pāzuki leg.; 13, Ardakān, Shoul ( Fārs Prov.), 17.vi.1973, Hāshemi, Zairi leg.

Description of female. Adult ( Fig. 9 ). Head whitish; thorax whitish with some scattered ochreous patches. Labial palpus twice diameter of eye, whitish ventrally with ochreous scales on lateroexternal side; second lobe long, almost six times length of third lobe. Antenna cream; scapus covered with ochreous scales. Legs cream-white mixed with dense ochreous scales. Wingspan 20‾ 21 mm. Forewing length 9‾ 10 mm. Forewing with costa straight, apex rounded. Ground colour whitish with ochreous spots on costa and some larger ochreous spots beyond middle of wing. Groups of raised ochreous scale along vein 1A+2A and few of them in lower angle of discal cell. Distal end of forewing with a triangular depression and some ochreous marking along Cu1 and R2 veins. Fringes whitish with ochreous basal and apical line. Hindwing and fringes white.

Female genitalia ( Fig. 10 ). Papillae anales moderate in length. Segment VII rather short; apophyses posteriores shorter than apophyses anteriores; sterigma well sclerotized, broad, in posterior margin slightly convex; antrum weakly sclerotized; length of ductus bursae slightly shorter than corpus bursae, membranous, with a longitudinaly folded, sclerotized plate near its junction with corpus bursae. Bursa copulatrix with a wide, elongate, oblique, sclerotized lateral plate and a ring-shaped sclerite on the other side; with a few spines on posterior part of the sclerotized ring.

Male genitalia. In some of the newly examined specimens, lateral sides of median part of transtilla slightly convex medially ( Fig. 11 ).

Bionomy. Foodplants and early stages unknown.

Distribution. Iran: Fars Province ( Razowski 1970b).

Remarks. Cochylimorpha scrophulana was described by Razowski (1963) from 11 males collected by E. P. Wiltshire in Pirezan ( Fars Province) on 11.vi.1940; the female was unknown. Along with the studied males there were two females collected in the same Province (one from Ganjegun with the same collecting data as the two males and another from Borujerd); both specimens are similar externally and I consider them to be the females of C. scrophulana . There are some colour forms as shown in the male specimen collected in Semirom (Pādenā), which is larger and has a light greyish brown hindwing ( Fig. 12 ).

Figures

FIGURE 9 – 12. Cochylimorpha scrophulana Razowski (adult female). 9 a) specimen from Borujerd; 9 b) specimen from Ganjegun. 10) female genitalia. 11, male genitalia, showing variation in the shape of the median part of the transtilla, 11 a) specimen from Zamān-Kahriz, 11 b) specimen from Ganjegun; 12 a) male specimen from Zamān-Kahriz; 12 b) male specimen from Pādena.