Ochyrotica concursa (Walsingham, 1891)

Hao, Shu-Lian, 2014, Taxonomic review of the genus Ochyrotica Walsingham from China (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae: Ochyroticinae), Zoological Systematics 39 (2), pp. 283-291 : 285

Ochyrotica concursa (Walsingham, 1891)

Steganodactyla concursa Walsingham, 1891 . Entomologist’s Mon. Mag., 27: 241. Type locality: Sri Lanka. Coll. BMNH.

Ochyrotica concursa (Walsingham) , Meyrick, 1910. Gen . Ins., 100: 20.

Host plants. Argyreia sp. , Lantana sp. (Gielis, 2003) .

Distribution. Oriental: Sri Lanka.

Remarks. According to records, O. concursa (Walsingham) is distributed in Sri Lanka. Yano (1963) described the mature larva and pupa of O. concursa (Walsingham) based the specimens from Japan, and recorded its distribution in Taiwan and Mainland China. Arenberger (1988) found the type-specimen of O. concursa different from all the specimens described by Yano (1963) from Japan. So he published a new species, O. yanoi Arenberger after checking the specimens described by Yano (1963).

Wu & Shen (2002) recorded the occurrence of O. concursa in several counties and cities of Fujian (Fuzhou, Minhou, Xinyou, Putian et al.). However they didn’t provide information and figures of the examined material. Li, Hao & Wang (2003) reported the occurrence of this species in China according to the above information. In this study, we found it is O. yanoi , not O. concursa by checking speciemens from Pinghe, Putian and Changle, Fujian deposited in IZCAS. Thus O. concursa is not distributed in China so far.

So O. concursa only distributed in Sri Lanka for the mistaken records in China and Japan.