Acroclita Lederer, 1859

Zhang, Aihuan, 2023, Systematic study of Chinese Acroclita Lederer (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 5228 (2), pp. 195-200 : 196

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Acroclita Lederer, 1859: 121 View in CoL . Type species: Paedisca arctana Staudinger, 1859 View in CoL = Tortrix (Semasia) subsequana HerrichSchäffer, 1851 View in CoL .

Acrolita: Fernald, 1908: 59 View in CoL . [Misspelling of Acroclita View in CoL ]

Acrocita: Turner, 1946: 197. [Misspelling of Acroclita View in CoL ]

Hylotropha Turner, 1946: 197 View in CoL . Type species: Hylotropha leptotypa Turner, 1946 View in CoL = Acroclita bryopa Meyrick, 1911 View in CoL .

Host plants. [ Araliaceae ]: Polyscias sp. ; [ Asteraceae ]: Sonchus sp. ; [ Boraginaceae ]: Cordia latifolia Roxb. , C. myxa L.; [ Cuscutaceae ]: Cuscuta sp. ; [ Elaeagnaceae ]: Elaeagnus umbellata Thunb. ; [ Euphorbiaceae ]: Euphorbia esula L., E. paralias L., E. portlandica L.; [ Fabaceae ]: Butea monosperma (Lam.) Taub ; [ Flacourtiaceae ]: Casearia tomentosa Roxb. ; [ Hypericaceae ]: Hypericum grandifolium Choisy ; [ Moraceae ]: Artocarpus hirsutus Lam. , Ficus racemosa L., F. religiosa L.; [ Rhamnaceae ]: Discaria toumatu Raoul. ; [ Salicaceae ]: Salix sp. ; [ Verbenaceae ]: Vitex pinnata (L.) ( Meyrick, 1912, 1920, 1927, 1933, 1934; Fletcher, 1932, 1940; Ashton & Santana, 1976; Bradley et al., 1979; Oku, 1979; Sobhian, 1996; Dugdale et al., 2005; Robinson et al., 2010).

Distribution. Palaearctic, Oriental, Australian, African and Neotropical regions.

Notes. The genus Acroclita Lederer is currently composed of thirty-eight species. The species named by Meyrick occupy beyond 50%, which display a wide range of variation in forewing pattern and genitalia characters ( Clarke, 1958). Different terms for the lateral projections of the tegumen have been used by different authors. Pierce & Metcalfe (1922) considered the arm-like projections to be a modified gnathos. However, in the tribe Eucosmini , the term gnathos is usually applied to a pair of sclerotized, transverse arms between the lateral parts of the tegumen, often connected medially, forming a ventral plate below the anal tube. Based on comparisons of tegumental structures among Acroclita Lederer , Tritopterna Meyrick , and Proteoteras Riley , the lateral projections were considered to be derived socii by Heinrich (1923). Diakonoff & Wolff (1976) regarded them as gnathos arms. However, Oku (1979) treated the medial hairy processes as socii, and the lateral projections as additional projections from upper part of tegumen at either side of the socii. Horak (2006) also treated the sclerotized lateral structures on tegumen as socii. In this paper, we follow the concepts of Heinrich (1923) and Horak (2006), and refer to the lateral processes on the tegumen as socii.

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