Archips termias (Meyrick, 1918)

Pathania, Prakash C., Das, Apurva & Chandra, Kailash, 2020, Catalogue of Tortricidae Latreille, 1802 (Lepidoptera: Tortricoidea) of India, Zootaxa 4757 (1), pp. 1-95 : 13-14

35. Archips termias (Meyrick, 1918)

Cacoecia termias Meyrick, 1918 ; Exotic Microlepid. 2: 164.

= Cacoecia sarcostega Meyrick, 1924 ; Exotic Microlepid. 3: 106.

= Archips termias argutus Diakonoff, 1976 ; Zool. Verh. Leiden 144: 91.

= Homona termias stenoptycha Diakonoff, 1951 ; Ark. Zool. 3 (2): 65.

TL: India, Assam, Shillong [now in Meghalaya] ( termias ); India, Kumaon, Muktesar ( sarcostega ); Nepal, Prov. No. 3 East, Bujan, Dudh Kosi (argutus); Burma [= Myanmar], Kambaiti Pass (stenoptycha).

Distribution: India (Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand); Bhutan; China; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Pakistan; Vietnam ( Diakonoff 1951, 1971, 1976; Nedoshivina 2013).

Hosts: This species is a serious local pest of Malus sp. ( Rosaceae ) in India; it has been reared in September from larvae boring in fruits. Larvae are polyphagus on fruit trees and other plants, including Acacia nilotica (Fabaceae) , Cydonia oblonga , Malus pumila , Prunus persica (Rosaceae) , Coffea liberica (Rubiaceae) , and Citrus (Rutaceae) ( Meyrick 1920, 1936; Flecther 1932; Janjua 1940; Mathur et al. 1958; Verma 1988; Bhardwaj & Chandler 1993; Bhagat et al. 1994; Sharma et al. 2005).

Illustrations: Adult ( Nedoshivina 2013: 221) and genitalia (Clarke 1858: 51; Rose & Pooni 2004: 149).