Schreiteriana Fletcher & Nye, 1982

Penco, Fernando C., Yakovlev, Roman V. & Witt, Thomas J., 2016, Taxonomic notes on the genera Brypoctia Schoorl, 1990 and Schreiteriana Fletcher & Nye, 1982 (Lepidoptera, Cossidae), Zootaxa 4205 (3), pp. 297-300 : 299

Schreiteriana Fletcher & Nye, 1982

Type species (by monotypy)— Schreiteria pectinicornis Dyar, 1937 .

Schreiteriana was suggested as an objective replacement name for Schreiteria Dyar, 1937 (Fletcher & Nye 1982) . The monotypic Schreiteria was established for Schreiteria pectinicornis Dyar, 1937 , but it proved to be a junior homonym of Schreiteria Melzer, 1933 ( Coleoptera : Cerambycidae , Lamiinae , Parmenini ). Shreiteria Dyar, the original generic name for pectinicornis , was included in the Key to the Zeuzerinae by Dyar (1937: 1265). Schoorl (1990: 227) calls into question the placement of Schreiteriana in the Cossidae . As an argument, Schoorl gives the peculiarities of the thorax structure of the syntype Schreiteria pectinicornis Dyar, 1937 . Citation: “The thorax of pectinicornis is very similar to that in Cossula magnifica … The mesepimeron lacks a pale band. The male retinaculum has a very long base. The uncus is broad and gradually rounded. Because of these differences, especially the type of mesepimeron, Schreiteriana is excluded from the Cossidae ”. Edwards et al. (1999) and Davis et al. (2008), clearly states problems with Schoorl’s choice of characters across his study. The study of genitalia of S. pectinicornis ( Dyar, 1937) indicated that this taxon belongs to the subfamily Zeuzerinae .