Coleophora mosasaurus ( Falkovitsh, 1988 )

Li, Houhun, 2006, Notes on Coleophora (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae) injurious to Lycium (Solanaceae), with descriptions of two new species from China, Zootaxa 1184 (1), pp. 57-68 : 60

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1184.1.4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5064183

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scientific name

Coleophora mosasaurus ( Falkovitsh, 1988 )
status

 

Coleophora mosasaurus ( Falkovitsh, 1988) View in CoL

( Figs. 1 View FIGURES 1–4 , 5–7 View FIGURES 5–10 )

Omphalopoda mosasaurus Falkovitsh, 1988: 148 View in CoL , fig. 11.

Coleophora mosasaurus ( Falkovitsh, 1988) View in CoL : Baldizzone et al., 2006: 83.

Male. Wing expanse 14.0–15.0 mm.

Male genitalia ( Figs. 5–6 View FIGURES 5–10 ). As illustrated.

Abdomen ( Fig. 7 View FIGURES 5–10 ). As illustrated.

Material examined

1 ♂, CHINA: Yangling [34 17’ N, 108 04’ E], Shaanxi Province, alt. 450 m, 16. iv.1993, leg. Houhun Li, genitalia slide no. L96144 View Materials GoogleMaps ; 1 ♂, Xining [36 38’ N, 101 48’ E], Qinghai Province, alt. 2280 m, 23.v.1995, genitalia slide no. L96163 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Distribution China: Shaanxi, Qinghai; Turkmenistan.

Biology

Falkovitsh (1988) recorded the Lycium sp. and Lycium kopetdaghi Pojark as host plants in Turkmenistan. In China C. mosasaurus feeds on wild Lycium barbarum Linnaeus.

Remarks

The genus Omphalopoda Falkovitch, 1987 was proposed as a synonym of Coleophora ( Vives Moreno, 1988) . Coleophora mosasaurus (Falkovitsh) is similar to Coleophora stegosaurus Falkovitsh by having the sacculus with a bifurcated apex, and the appendix of the outer sheath and the cornuti absent in the male genitalia, but it can be distinguished from the latter by the symmetrical bifurcation of the saccular apex, which is asymmetrical in C. stegosaurus . This species is recorded from China for the first time.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Coleophoridae

Genus

Coleophora

Loc

Coleophora mosasaurus ( Falkovitsh, 1988 )

Li, Houhun 2006
2006
Loc

Coleophora mosasaurus ( Falkovitsh, 1988 )

Baldizzone, G. & van der Wolf, H. & Landry, J. - F. 2006: 83
2006
Loc

Omphalopoda mosasaurus

Falkovitsh, M. I. 1988: 148
1988
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