Scotiophyes Diakonoff, 1976

Wang, Xin-Pu, 2009, Taxonomic study on Scotiophyes Diakonoff from China, with the description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), Zootaxa 1974, pp. 64-68 : 65

Scotiophyes Diakonoff, 1976

Scotiophyes Diakonoff, 1976: 74 .

Type species: Adoxophyes faeculosa Meyrick, 1928 by original designation.

In the forewing, veins R4 and R5 are stalked to the middle, M1 is approximate to R5, and Cu1 extends from the subterminal portion of the median cell. In the hindwing, Rs and M1 are short stalked, and the remainder veins are separate. In the male genitalia, the tegumen is broad and triangular; the uncus is dilated at the base; the socius is small or fused with the gnathos; the terminal plate of the gnathos is bifurcate; the transtilla is long and sinuate; the valva is broad; the costa is sclerotized and reaching the middle of the valva; and the sacculus is broad with dorsal lobes. In the female genitalia, the median portion of the ductus bursae is coiled, with a small internal sclerite, and the signum is thornlike.

Diakonoff (1976) pointed out that the genitalia of Scotiophyes differ from those of the type species of Adoxophyes in the following features: Scotiophyes has a long sclerotized costa of the valva and lacks a wrinkled disc; Adoxophyes has an atrophied costa and a distinct wrinkled disc of the valva. Razowski (1987) indicated that the systematic position of Scotiophyes is unclear, and he provided some putative autapomorphies for the genus. The closest relative of Scotiophyes remains unknown, but the fusion of the gnathos and socii may represent an autapomorphy. The genus may belong to a group of genera considered primitive Archipini. A fusion of the socii and gnathos also occurs in Sparganothini and some Eucosmini, but it is rare in Archipini. Hence, the systematic position of Scotiophyes is in need of further investigation.