Euplocamus Latreille, 1809

Huang, Guo-Hua, Hirowatari, Toshiya & Wang, Min, 2010, A review of the China-Himalayan members of the subfamily Euplocaminae (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Tineidae), Zootaxa 2511, pp. 1-21 : 4

Euplocamus Latreille, 1809

Euplocamus Latreille, 1809 , Gen. Crust. Ins. 4: 223. Type-species: Tinea guttella Fabricius, 1781 , Species Insect. 2: 509; by subsequent designation by Latreille, 1810, Consid. gén. Ordre nat. Anim.: 441.

Euplocampus ; Rafinesque, 1815, Analyse Nat.: 129; missp.

Trichocheilia Hübner, 1818, Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. 1: 25, [34].

Trichocheilia Hübner, 1822, Syst.-alphab. Verz. 52: 66–80. Type-species: Phalaena anthracinalis Scopoli, 1763 , Ent. Carniolica: 239, fig. 607; by subsequent designation by Bradley, 1966, Entomologist's Gaz. 17: 216.

Nycterina Meigen, 1832, Syst. Beschr. eur. Schmett. 3: 263. Type-species: Phalaena anthracinalis Scopoli, 1763 , Ent. Carniolica: 239, fig. 607; by subsequent designation by Fletcher, 1929, Mem. Dep. Agric. India (Ent.) 11: 149.

Trichocheila; Bradley, 1966, Entomologist's Gaz. 17: 216; missp.

Epichysia Hübner, 1825, Verz. bekannt. Schmett.: 404. Type-species: Tinea anthracinalis Latreille, 1763 , Ankündung syst. Werkes. Schmett. Wienergegend: 319; by subsequent designation by Fletcher, 1929, Mem. Dep. Agric. India (Ent.) 11: 80.

Description. Head: Vertex and pronotum roughly clothed with yellowish or blackish brown scales. Antenna about 0.6 × length of forewing; scape without pecten. Maxillary palpus very short. Labial palpus developed, without strong lateral bristles on the second segment. Thorax: Dorsal surface and tegula covered with blackish brown scales. Wings with similar pattern, moderately elongate, rounded apically. Forewing length 6.0–12.0 mm, all veins present; R5 ending at apex; hindwing with all veins present and separated basally, crossvein M- CuA present, M branched in discal cell. Abdomen: Male genitalia with uncus lobed, each lobe distinct and strongly sclerotized; vinculum broad; gnathos consisting of a pair of arms; juxta indistinct; valva broad or tapered basally and rounded aoically, with raised spinules dorsally and covered with slender bristles on inner surface; aedeagus cylindrical, inflated basally, without cornuti. Female genitalia with corpus bursae small, without signum; ovipositor long, with ventral rods, and papilla analis not swollen.

Remarks. Petersen (1958) treated Euplocamus as the only genus in Euplocaminae . He reported that larvae are of the “crawler-type,” living in decaying wood and on mushrooms. Based on the fauna of Japan, Moriuti (1982) placed Euplocamus hierophanta Meyrick, 1916 in Euplocaminae ; the species later was synonymized with Pelecystola strigosa (Moore) by Robinson & Tuck (1996). Robinson (2001) included 11 species in the genus. We recognize 10 species after transferring Euplocamus tanylopha Meyrick, 1932 to Psecadioides . Below we redescribe Euplocamus melanchrodes Meyrick, 1916 and present the first record from China.