Macrobathra Meyrick, 1883

Zhang, Di & Li, Houhun, 2023, Review of the genus Macrobathra Meyrick, 1883 (Lepidoptera: Cosmopterigidae) in China, Zootaxa 5330 (2), pp. 227-246 : 228

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Macrobathra Meyrick, 1883: 425 View in CoL (key).

Type species: Macrobathra chrysotoxa Meyrick, 1886 , by subsequent designation (Meyrick, in Wytsman, 1922).

Leurozancla Turner, 1933: 173 View in CoL .

Type species: Leurozancla humilis Turner, 1933 , by monotypy.

Diagnosis. Macrobathra is characterized by the labial palpus with the third segment longer than the second segment, and the antenna with the scape elongated; the lanceolate forewing with R 4 stalked with R 5, the wider hindwing with Rs and M 1 parallel basally, farther apart distally; in the male genitalia by the symmetrical or rarely asymmetrical socius and the valva with dense setae distally; in the female genitalia by the accessory bursae arising from the ductus bursae, and the corpus bursae with paired signa.

Macrobathra is similar to Pancalia Stephens, 1829 in the labial palpus with the third segment longer than the second segment, the fore- and hindwings having a same vein pattern, and the aedeagus not integrating with the anellus. Macrobathra differs from Pancalia in the forewing with a distinct fascia and without tubercular spots of shining metal luster.

Macrobathra is geographically distributed in the Australian, the Ethiopian, the Palaearctic and the Oriental regions.

Host plants of the genus Macrobathra include Acacia spp. of Fabaceae [Leguminosae] ( Meyrick 1922), Quercus serrata Thunberg and Q. glauca Thunberg of Fagaceae ( Moriuti 1973) , Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) of Taxodiaceae ( Qian & Liu 1997) .

References

Meyrick, E. (1883) Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. VIII. Oecophoridae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 7 (4), 415 - 547. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 22763

Meyrick, E. (1886) Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XII. Oecophoridae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 10 (4), 765 - 832. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 17965

Meyrick, E. (1922) Lepidoptera Heterocera. Fam. Oecophoridae. In: Wytsman, P. (Ed.), Genera Insectorum. Fasc. 180. L. Desmet-Verteneuil, Bruxelles, pp. 1 - 224, 6 pls.

Moriuti, S. (1973) A new genus and two new species of the Japanese Microlepidoptera (Timyridae and Oecophoridae). Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society Japan, 23 (2), 31 - 38.

Qian, F. J. & Liu, Y. Q. (1997) A new species of the Oecophoridae injurious to the cone and seed of China fir (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae). Scientia Silvae Sinicae, 33 (1), 66 - 68.

Stephens, J. F. (1829) A systematic catalogue of British Insects: being an attempt to arrange all the hitherto discovered indigenous insects in accordance with their natural affinities. Part II. Insecta Haustellata. Baldwin & Cradock, London, 388 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 8987

Turner, A. J. (1933) New Australian Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 57, 159 - 182.