Stamnodes fervefactaria ( Grote, 1881 )

Matson, Tanner A., 2023, A review of Mexican Stamnodes (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) with the description of 16 new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 911, pp. 1-79 : 21-22

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Stamnodes fervefactaria ( Grote, 1881) View in CoL

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Emplocia fervefactaria Grote, 1881: 177 View in CoL . Type locality: New Mexico, USA. [NHMUK].

Coenocalpe fervifactaria – Hulst 1896: 287 . — Dyar 1902: 285 (cat.). — Pearsall 1906: 204.

Stamnodes fervifactaria – Pearsall 1909b: 366. — Powell & Opler 2009: 226; pl. 32 figs 33–34. — Lee 2014: e86 (inventory).

Stamnodes fervefactaria View in CoL – Bonniwell 1920: 120. — McDunnough 1938: 151 (checklist). — Ferguson 1983: 103 (checklist). — Furniss et al. 1988: 9. — Poole & Gentili 1996: 686 (checklist). — Scoble 1999: 902 (catalogue). — Knudson & Bordelon 2002: 7–8. — Scoble & Hausmann 2007 (online catalogue). — Pohl et al. 2016: 449 (checklist). — Matson & Wagner 2020: 79–90. — Rajaei et al. 2022 (online catalogue).

Diagnostic remarks

Stamnodes fervefactaria lacks the two, bright orange, transverse, medial patches on the hindwing underside found in S. deceptiva and is cream coloured between the large grey patches of the hindwing underside that stands in contrast to the similar but stark-white patterning of visually similar S. fergusoni , S. disrupta sp. nov., S. mariachi sp. nov., and S. erupta sp. nov. Matson & Wagner (2020) provide detailed diagnostic comments about this species as it relates to its visually similar USA-distributed congeners.

Distribution

Mexico: while Stamnodes fervefactaria has not been recorded in Mexico, records of this species along the USA-Mexico border in the USA suggest this species is likely to occur in Mexico. USA: S. fervefactaria is found in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas where its distribution is spotty and tied to mid- to high-elevation mountain habitats.

Biology

The life history of S. fervefactaria is unpublished, but caterpillars can be predicted to feed on herbaceous mints from knowledge of related taxa. Adults fly from July through September.

Molecular characterization

This species is represented in BOLD by a single BIN: BOLD:AAL5992 (n = 9, USA: Colorado, New Mexico). The distance to the nearest adjacent interspecific neighbour, Stamnodes disrupta sp. nov. (n = 5, Mexico: Sonora), is presently around 2.9% ( Fig. 94 View Fig ).

References

Bonniwell J. G. 1920. Collecting in the Sacramento Mountains. The Lepidopterist 3 (3): 118 - 120.

Dyar H. G. 1902. A list of North American Lepidoptera and key to the literature of this order of insects. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 52: 1 - 723. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.52. i

Ferguson D. C. 1983. Geometridae. In: Hodges R. W., Dominick T., Davis D. R., Ferguson D. C., Franclemont J. G., Munroe E. G. & Powell J. A. (eds) Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico: 88 - 107. EW Classey Ltd. & The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, London.

Furniss M. M., Ferguson D. C., Voget K. W., Burkhardt J. W. & Tiedemann A. R. 1988. Taxonomy, life history, and ecology of a mountain-mahogany defoliator, Stamnodes animata (Pearsall), in Nevada. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fish Wildlife Research 3: 1 - 26.

Grote A. R. 1881. Moths collected by Prof. Snow in New Mexico, with list of Eudriini. Papilio 1 (9): 174 - 178. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 10373330 [accessed 13 Oct. 2023].

Hulst G. D. 1896. A classification of the Geometrina of North America, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 23 (3): 245 - 386. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9322

Knudson E. & Bordelon C. 2002. The Stamnodini (Geometridae: Larentiinae) of Texas. News of the Lepidopterists' Society 44 (1): 7 - 8.

Lee S. 2014. Preliminary list of the lepidopterous insects in the Arizona State University Hasbrouck Insect Collection. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 7 (1): e 76 - e 94. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. japb. 2014.03.002

Matson T. A. & Wagner D. L. 2020. A new Stamnodes from the southwestern United States (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae). ZooKeys 923: 79 - 90. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 923.48290

McDunnough J. H. 1938. Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States of America, Part 1, Macrolepidoptera. Memoirs of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 1: 3 - 272. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 146941

Pearsall R. F. 1906. List of Geometridae, collected on the museum expeditions to Utah, Arizona, Texas, with descriptions of new species. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 1 (8): 201 - 220.

Pearsall R. F. 1909 b. The geometrid genus Stamnodes Guenee. The Canadian Entomologist 41 (10): 366 - 368. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 41366 - 10

Pohl G. R., Patterson B. & Pelham J. P. 2016. Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Working paper published online by the authors at ResearchGate. net https: // doi. org / 10.13140 / RG. 2.1.2186.3287

Poole R. W. & Gentili P. (eds) 1996. Nomina Insecta Nearctica. A Check List of the Insects of North America. Vol. 3: Diptera, Lepidoptera, Siphonaptera. Entomological Information Services, Rockville.

Powell J. A. & Opler P. A. 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, Berkeley. https: // doi. org / 10.1525 / 9780520943773

Rajaei H., Hausmann A., Scoble M., Wanke D., Plotkin D., Brehm G., Murillo-Ramos L. & Sihvonen P. 2022. An online taxonomic facility of Geometridae (Lepidoptera), with an overview of global species richness and systematics. Integrative Systematics 5 (2): 145 - 192. https: // doi. org / 10.18476 / 2022.577933

Scoble M. J. 1999. Geometrid Moths of the World: A Catalogue. Vols 1 & 2. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / 9780643101050

Scoble M. J. & Hausmann A. 2007. Online list of valid and available names of the Geometridae of the World. Available from http: // www. herbulot. de / globalspecieslist. htm [accessed 20 Aug. 2022].

Figures

Figs 11–18. Adult Stamnodes Guenée, [1858], dorsal (a) and ventral (b) views. 11. S. fergusoni Matson & Wagner, 2020, holotype, ♂ (USNMENT01771260). 12. S. deceptiva Barnes & McDunnough, 1918 (USNMENT01771261). 13. S. fervefactaria (Grote, 1881) (USNMENT01771262). 14. S. disrupta sp. nov., holotype (BMEC). 15. S. mariachi sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (EMEC174828). 16. S. erupta sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (USNMENT01771245). 17. S. ceniza sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (LEP190410CNIN). 18. S. proana (Druce, 1893), holotype (NHMUK). Scale bar = 1 cm.

Fig. 94. COI neighbour-joining tree for Mexican Stamnodes Guenée, [1858] using default Kimura-2P model in the Barcode of Life Project (BOLD). Taxon names followed by BOLD Process ID.

Fig. 95. Biogeographic associations of Mexican Stamnodes Guenée, [1858]. (*) denotes species found in two or more provinces. Underlying biogeographic provincial map taken from Morrone (2020: fig. 4.5) with permission to reproduce this figure granted by author Juan J. Morrone.

Fig. 94. COI neighbour-joining tree for Mexican Stamnodes Guenée, [1858] using default Kimura-2P model in the Barcode of Life Project (BOLD). Taxon names followed by BOLD Process ID.