Eudonia mercurella ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Li, Weichun, Li, Houhun & Nuss, Matthias, 2012, Taxonomic revision of the genus Eudonia Billberg, 1820 from China (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Scopariinae), Zootaxa 3273, pp. 1-27 : 10-11

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scientific name	Eudonia mercurella ( Linnaeus, 1758 )
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8. Eudonia mercurella ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Phalaena (Tinea) mercurella Linnaeus, 1758: 538 View Cited Treatment . Type locality: Europe.

Eudonia mercurella ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL : Billberg, 1820: 93; Seino & Mano, 2002: 388, fig. 9; Nuss, 2005, in Huemer & Karsholt: 150, figs. 81.

Eudorea portlandica Humphreys & Westwood, 1841: 226, pl. 114 fig. 32; Guenée, 1854: 428. Type locality: Isle of Portland, Great Britain.

Eudorea frequentella Stainton, 1849: 3 ; Klima, 1937, in Bryk: 27; Marion, 1955: 57. Type locality: Great Britain.

Eudorea concinnella Curtis, 1850: 115 ; Stainton, 1851: 1. Type locality: Bournemouth, Great Britain.

Eudonia mercurella puella Leraut, 1982: 12 View in CoL , pl. 1 fig. 9. Type locality: Kassandra, Chalcidique, Greece.

Diagnosis. This species is similar to E. lacustrata ( Panzer, 1804) in appearance and in female genitalia, but can be disparted by the valva without protuberance in the male genitalia, and the colliculum much narrower than the anterior part of the ductus bursae and the corpus bursae with an ovate signum in the female genitalia. In E. lacustrata , the valva bears a small ventral protuberance; the colliculum is nearly as wide as the ductus bursae and the corpus bursae has a stripelike signum.

Distribution. China (Western part), Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, Europe, Northwest Africa.

Remarks. Klima (1937) listed this species as distributed in the western part of China, but the detailed locality was not provided. We have not collected this species in China to date.

References

Billberg, G. J. (1820) Enumeratio Insectorum in Museo G. J. Billberg. Stockholm. 138 pp.

Curtis, J. (1850) Notes upon the smaller British Moths, with descriptions of some nondescript or imperfectly characterized species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, (2) 5, 110 - 121.

Guenee, M. A. (1854) Deltoides et Pyralites. In: Boisduval, J. B. A. D. & Guenee, M. A., Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species General des Lepidopteres 88. Roret, Paris. 448 pp.

Humphreys, H. N. & Westwood, J. O. (1841) British moths and their transformations. Wm. S. Orr & Co., London. 268 pp., 57 - 124 pls.

Klima, A. (1937) Pyralididae: Subfamilies: Scopariinae et Nymphulinae. In: Bryk, F., Lepidopterorum Catalogus 84. Dr. W. Junk, Gravenhage. 226 pp.

Leraut, P. J. A. (1982) Contribution a l'etude des Scopariinae. 2. Onze nouveaux taxa (dont deux nouveaux genres) de la zone ouest-palearctique (Lep. Crambidae). Alexanor, 12 (suppl. 6), 1 - 18.

Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. 824 pp.

Marion, H. (1955) Revision des Pyraustidae de la faune francaise (suite). Revue francaise de Lepidopterologie, 15 (3), 41 - 58.

Nuss, M. (2005) Scopariinae. In: Huemer, P., Karsholt, O. (eds.). Microlepidoptera of Europe 4. Apollo Books, Stenstrup. 127 - 180 pp., 184 - 185 pp., 194 - 201 pp., 225 - 238 pp., 259 - 276 pp.

Panzer, G. W. F. (1804) Systematische Nomenclatur uber weiland Dr. Jacob Christian Schaffers naturlich ausgemalte Abbildungen regensburgischer Insekten D. Jacobi Christiani Schaefferi Iconum Insectorum circa Ratisbonam indi. Johann Jakob Palm, Erlangen. 260 pp.

Seino, A. & Mano, T. (2002) A list of Scopariinae (Pyralidae) collected in Primorye Region. Japan Heterocerist's Journal, 220, 388 - 389.

Stainton, H. T. (1849) An attempt at a Systematic Catalogue of the British Tineidae & Pterophoridae. John van Voorst, i - iv, 1 - 32.

Stainton, H. T. (1851) A supplementary catalogue of the British Tineidae & Pterophoridae. John van Voorst, i - iv, 1 - 28.