Cochylimorpha montana (Razowski, 1967)

Alipanah, Helen, 2009, Synopsis of the Cochylini (Tortricidae: Tortricinae: Cochylini) of Iran, with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 2245, pp. 1-31 : 12

Cochylimorpha montana (Razowski, 1967)

Stenodes montana Razowski, 1967 , Beitr. Naturk. Forsch. SüdwDtl. 26: 99. TL: Afghanistan.

Material examined. 3Ƥ 13, Gorgān, Shāhkuh-e Bālā (Golestān Prov.), 2400 m, 19.vii.2003, Ālipanāh, Ebrāhimi leg.

Description of the female. Adult ( Fig. 7). Head, patagium, tegula and thorax cream-white. Labial palpus whitish mixed with ochreous scales laterally; length of labial palpus more than twice diameter of eye. Antenna white dorsally, brownish ventrally, with short, sparse cilia. Legs cream or dirty cream lateroexternally.

Wingspan 20.5–24.5 mm. Forewing length 9.5–12.0 mm. Forewing elongate, narrow, costa straight, apex rounded; termen oblique, not convex. Ground colour cream-white, paler than in male; no strigulae along costa; forewing with triangular depression subterminally; row of dark brownish dots along CuA1; occasionally a few small groups of light brownish raised scales along 1A+2A vein medially. Fringes whitish, basal line yellowish with yellow apical line. Hindwing darker than forewing, light brownish cream. Fringes whitish with a yellowish basal line. Abdomen somewhat cream.

Female genitalia ( Fig. 8). Papillae anales rather long. Segment VII moderately short; apophyses posteriores clearly shorter than apophyses anteriores. Sterigma sclerotized, broad, with convex posterior margin. Antrum weakly sclerotized; ductus bursae relatively moderate, as long as corpus bursae, membranous, with a weakly sclerotized longitudinal structure and groups of minute spines near its junction with corpus bursae. Bursae copulatrix bulbous with an almost oval sclerotized plate on one side and a weakly sclerotized ring on the other side.

Bionomy. Food plants and early stages unknown.

Remarks. Cochylimorpha montana was described from one male collected by G. Ebert in NE Afghanistan (Pamir), 17.–27.vii.1957; The female was unknown. As the single male collected in Shāhkuh-e Bālā was determined as C. montana and the female specimens with the same collecting data match the male phenotypically, I consider them to be the females of C. montana . Wingspan of the examined male 21 mm. Forewing length 10 mm. In the male genitalia, the valvae and the basal portion of the transtilla are somewhat broader.

Distribution. NE Afghanistan ( Razowski 1970b), Iran.

Remarks. This species is newly recorded in the fauna of Iran.