Biology:Sorolopha sphaerocopa
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tortricidae |
| Genus: | Sorolopha |
| Species: | S. sphaerocopa
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| Binomial name | |
| Sorolopha sphaerocopa (Meyrick, 1930)[lower-alpha 1]
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Sorolopha sphaerocopa is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1930 as Argyroploce sphaerocopa, from a specimen collected in Tonkin (northern Vietnam).[2] It is found in India, Thailand, Japan, China, Sumatra, western Java, the Moluccas[3] and Vietnam.[4] In Japan it has been recorded from Honshu, Kyushu and the Nansei Islands, including Yakushima and Amami Ōshima.[1]
Taxonomy
The species was originally placed in Argyroploce.[2] It was subsequently transferred to Choganhia by Razowski in 1960 (with Argyroploce sphaerocopa serving as the type species of that genus), to Acanthothyspoda by Diakonoff in 1966, and to Eudemis (Acanthothyspoda) by Diakonoff in 1968, before being placed in its current genus, Sorolopha, by Diakonoff in 1973.[1][5] Choganhia and Acanthothyspoda are now treated as synonyms of Sorolopha.[1]
Description
The wingspan is 15–16 mm for males and 16–17 mm for females.[6] A 2023 review of Japanese material gives a mean forewing length of 7.0 mm (range 6.3–7.6 mm, n = 27).[1] The ground colour of the forewing is variable, ranging from brown or black to dull green, with a semicircular marking in the apical area; compared with related species the forewing is relatively narrow, and males bear scale tufts near the anal margin of the hindwings.[1] The species is very similar to Sorolopha asymmetrana in forewing pattern and in the male genitalia, but can be separated by the shape of the ventral process of the cucullus, which is uniform in width in S. sphaerocopa but narrowed at the apex in S. asymmetrana; it is also similar to Sorolopha asphaeropa in the male genitalia, from which it is distinguished by features of the hindwing.[1]
Biology
In Honshu, adults have been recorded from May to October and are frequently collected at light traps.[1] Larvae tie together young leaves of the host plant and feed within the resulting leaf shelters; one larva has been reared from a fungus bud gall on Machilus thunbergii.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Sakagami, Kota (2023). "Review of the species of Sorolopha Lower (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in Japan, with descriptions of three new species". Zootaxa 5278 (1): 136. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5278.1.6.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Meyrick, E. (1930). de Joannis, J.. ed. "Description of new Microlepidoptera from Tonkin". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 98 (Suppl.): 719.
- ↑ New records and known species of the tribe Olethreutini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae) from Thong Pha Phum National Park, Thailand
- ↑ Razowski, J., 2009, Tortricidae from Vietnam in the collection of the Berlin Museum. 6. Olethreutinae (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) Shilap revista de Lepidopterologia 37 (145): 115-143.
- ↑ Diakonoff, A. (1973). The South Asiatic Olethreutini (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae). Zoölogische Monographieën van het Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. Leiden: Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. pp. 86–87. https://books.google.com/books?id=X9QUAAAAIAAJ.
- ↑ The South Asiatic Olethreutini: (Lepidoptera Tortricidae)
Notes
- ↑ Some databases, including GBIF, Catalogue of Life and Wikidata, give the authority date as 1931. The original description appeared in a supplementary volume of the Annales de la Société Entomologique de France covering the years 1929–1930; recent specialist taxonomic literature on the genus (Le et al. 2013; Sakagami 2023) consistently cites the year as 1930, which is followed here.[1]
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q7563633 entry
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