Brusqeulia Razowski & Becker, 2000

Santa-Rita, Jose V. Perez & Baixeras, Joaquin, 2018, Two new species of Brusqeulia Razowski & Becker, 2000 from the Neotropics, with comments on the systematic position of the genus in relation to the Apolychrosis Amsel, 1962 group of genera (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae, Cochylini), ZooKeys 770, pp. 193-210 : 194

Brusqeulia Razowski & Becker, 2000

Brusqeulia Razowski & Becker, 2000, SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología 28: 386; type-species: Brusqeulia sebastiani Razowski & Becker, 2000

Pinhaisania Razowski & Becker, 2000, SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología 28: 387; type-species: Pinhaisania crispula Razowski & Becker, 2000 - syn. n.

Diagnosis.

Venation typically for Cochylina (Fig. 1). Forewing (based on two slides) without costal fold; discal cell ca. 0.6 times length of wing, no M–stem, chorda obsolescent ca. 0.25 times length of wing, cross veins vestigial; all veins present except CuP; R4 to the costa near apex, R5 to the termen; distances between pairs of veins R5-M1, M1-M2 and M2-M3 on termen similar; distances between M3-CuA1, CuA1-CuA2 and CuA2-1A+2A similar; CuA2 opposite on discal cell ca. 0.3-0.5 the distance between R1 and R2 on the cell, approximately coincident with the point where the chorda meets Rs; anal loop ca. 0.3 times length of 1A+2A. Hindwing with Sc+R1 somewhat parallel to Rs basally, length ca. 0.8 times length of wing; M1 and Rs stalked in basal half; M2, M3 and CuA1 obsolescent basally; M3 and CuA1 connate; CuA2 well developed, CuP reduced, present only in distal portion; 1A+2A and 3A developed, anal loop ca. 0.4 times length of 1A+2A. Frenulum in males with one single bristle, three bristles in females. Male genitalia with transtilla broad and well developed; gnathos as two arms fused distally forming a short process, resulting in a plicate terminal plate; characteristic valva, elongate; cucullus with a more or less developed disc of hair like scales; sacculus with a free terminal process. Phallus with two distinctive sets of non-deciduous cornuti, one set as a ventral band of rather large aciculate cornuti basally attached; a second set in the inner part of vesica formed by microspinulate cornuti. Female genitalia with lobular lamella antevaginalis and postvaginalis; ventral spinous subpapillar sclerite on the 8-9 intersegmental membrane at the level of the ventral lobes of the anal papillae.

Diversity and distribution.

Fifteen species have been described from Brazil and one from Ecuador ( Razowski and Becker 2000, 2011). To that we add one species from Bolivia and another from Venezuela. Given the broad geographical and elevational range (from near sea level to ca. 2000 m), we suspect that Brusqeulia includes additional undiscovered species.