Eucosmocydia catamochla (Meyrick, 1932), 2022

Brown, John W., Razowski, Józef, Aarvik, Leif, Timm, Alicia E. & Copeland, Robert S., 2022, New species and new combinations in Afrotropical Eucosmocydia Diakonoff, 1988 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae), Insecta Mundi 2022 (927), pp. 1-27 : 25

Eucosmocydia catamochla (Meyrick, 1932) , new combination

Eucosma catamochla Meyrick 1932: 223 ; Clarke 1958: 352.

“Grapholitini Unplaced” catamochla: Brown 2005: 365 .

Eucosma catamochla was described from five reared specimens from “ Java, teak-forest,” Indonesia, without mention of the host. Clarke (1958: 352) designated a male lectotype (NHML) and illustrated the adult and its genitalia. He also mentioned that two of the five specimens were missing. Brown (2005) transferred the species to “Grapholitini Unplaced” based on the recommendation of Furumi Komai, who contributed the section on Grapholitini to the world catalogue of Tortricidae ( Brown 2005) .

In the male genitalia of Eucosma catamochla , the long, slender, parallel-sided valva and the tall, narrow, tegumen, to which the socii are fused, are very similar to those features in the male genitalia of Eucosmocydia terreirana ( Razowski and Wojtusiak 2014: fig. 5). On the basis of these similarities, we provisionally transfer Eucosma catamochla to Eucosmocydia . This new combination broadens considerably the geographic distribution of Eucosmocydia from that of a strictly Afrotropical genus to now include southeast Asia.