Cochylimorpha fluens (Razowski, 1970)

Alipanah, Helen, 2009, Synopsis of the Cochylini (Tortricidae: Tortricinae: Cochylini) of Iran, with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 2245, pp. 1-31 : 9-11

Cochylimorpha fluens (Razowski, 1970)

Stenodes fluens Razowski, 1970 , Microlepid. Palaearctica 3: 156. TL: Afghanistan.

Material examined. 53 3Ƥ, 13 km N Birjand (North Khorāsān Prov.), 1960 m, 6.vi.1977, Safavi, Pāzuki, Abāi leg.

Description of male. Adult ( Fig. 4). Head, tegula and thorax whitish; scales of frons and vertex elongate and appressed. Labial palpus almost twice diameter of eye, whitish ventrally, tinged yellowish laterally. Antenna whitish on dorsal surface; cilia on underside denser and longer than in female. Legs cream–white.

Wingspan 23–27 mm. Forewing length 11.0– 12.5 mm. Forewing broad; costa almost straight, apex rounded; termen nearly straight. Ground colour whitish with yellowish-ochreous dots in distal ½, mixed with some glossy scales; a group of raised scales along median part of vein 1A+2A. Fringes whitish with yellowish basal line. Hindwing ochreous yellow; fringes unicolorous whitish. Underside of forewing light ochreous, that of hindwing cream-white. Abdomen ochreous.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 5). Uncus present as a short swelling; socii moderate, apex rounded, drooping; median part of transtilla broad, relatively short, almost half length of juxta, with a median concavity at the top and few teeth on its corners; juxta broad, nearly trapezoidal; vinculum moderate, rounded; valvae broad, convex along costa, apex rounded or slightly triangular; sacculus simple, broad, ¼ width of valvae; aedeagus moderately stout with broad caecum of penis, tapering toward apex, with a relatively long, broad, curved apical projection rounded apically; caulis short; three almost equal cornuti present in vesica.

Bionomy. Foodplants and early stages unknown.

Remarks. Cochylimorpha fluens was described from three females collected by H. G. Amsel in Afghanistan (Polichomri), 5.vi.1956, and from two females collected by Kasy and Vartian on 21.vi 1963 in the Mashhad region (Khorāsān Province). The male remained unknown. Among the specimens collected in North Khorāsān Province there were five males having the same collecting data and wing patterns. Based on the overall external similarity to the females and the same collection sites, I consider the males to be conspecific with these females.

Distribution. Afghanistan; NE Iran: Mashhad ( Razowski 1970b).