Teleiodes Sattler

Lee, Sangmi & Brown, Richard L., 2008, Revision of Holarctic Teleiodini (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), Zootaxa 1818, pp. 1-55 : 37-38

Teleiodes Sattler

Teleiodes Sattler, 1960: 63 .

Type species: Tinea vulgella [ Denis and Schiffermüller], 1775, by original designation. Replacement name for Teleia Heinemann, 1870 .

Teleia Heinemann, 1870: 272 . Preoccupied by Teleia Hübner ([1825]) ( Lepidoptera : Tortricidae ). Type species: Tinea vulgella [ Denis and Schiffermüller], 1775, by subsequent designation ( Meyrick 1925). Feleia Christoph, 1882: 25 . Misspelling of Teleia Heinemann, 1870 .

Teleja Turati, 1924: 161. Misspelling of Teleia Heinemann, 1870 .

Telia Kirby, 1879: 185. Misspelling of Teleia Heinemann, 1870 .

Tellia Busck, 1903: 813 . Misspelling of Teleia Heinemann, 1870 .

Description. Imago. Antenna more than half forewing length. Forewing with tufts of raised scales; M1, M2, and M3 separate, CuA1 and CuA2 present; median fascia absent, represented by spot on costa. Hindwing with R5 and M1 connate, M2, M3, and CuA1 separate. Male abdominal tergum VIII lingulate, with pair of hair pencils anterolaterally.

Male genitalia: uncus well developed, notched apically; gnathos horn shaped; tegumen deeply emarginate anteriorly with widely separated, moderately slender, lateral arms, costal part of valva with bulbous base, straight, and gradually tapered beyond base to apex; tegumen basal width/length ratio 1.1; saccular part of valva greatly reduced; phallus slender, cornuti absent.

Female genitalia: apophyses anteriores about 1.5 x length of abdominal segment VIII; ostium bursae surrounded by tubelike sclerotization; ductus and corpus bursae well developed; signum subhexagonal with serrate margins.

Larva. Body greenish gray; head yellowish brown; prothoracic shield black; pinacula small, black; legs whitish ringed with black ( Emmet 2002).

Pupa. Frontoclypeal suture forming acute bow; abdominal segment VII edged caudally by row of setae laterally and ventrally; cremaster absent ( Patoèka and Turcáni 2005).

Diagnosis. Teleiodes species are superficially similar to those of Xenolechia and Altenia . However, the uncus is notched in Teleiodes and deeply bifid for ½ or more length in Xenolechia and Altenia . Altenia also have a pair of hair pencils between abdominal terga II and III, which are absent in Teleiodes and Xenolechia .

Hosts. Rosaceae : Crataegus sp. ( T. vulgella ), Prunus spinosa L. ( T. vulgella ). ( Emmet 1988). Emmet (1988) also listed Quercus sp. ( Fagaceae ) as a host of “ Teleiodes ” luculella , a species treated here as incertae sedis.

Diversity and distribution. Teleiodes is restricted here to four species that occur in Europe ( Huemer and Karsholt 1999).

Notes. Teleiodes has been recognized as a polyphyletic assemblage of differing taxa ( Huemer and Karsholt 1999), and this concept is supported here. The Nearctic species, T. sequax (Haworth) , and the Palearctic species, T. huemeri Nel and T. cisti (Stainton) , are transferred here to Neotelphusa . The generic assignment of other Palearctic species assigned to Teleiodes by Huemer and Karsholt (1999, 2001) remains uncertain.