Nycthia yuccatana ( Busck, 1907 ) Brown, 2019

Brown, John W., 2019, New genera, new species, and new combinations in New World Cochylina (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Tortricinae), Zootaxa 4671 (2), pp. 195-222 : 206

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4671.2.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8DA2FA3F-3629-4D10-92B0-671637D91DD4

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E08794-FFCA-FFF7-FF5B-7D8AFC09FC09

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scientific name

Nycthia yuccatana ( Busck, 1907 )
status

comb. nov.

Nycthia yuccatana ( Busck, 1907) View in CoL , new combination

Figs. 10 View FIGURES 1–10 , 25 View FIGURES 19–26 , 39 View FIGURES 39–43

Phalonia yuccatana Busck, 1907: 23 View in CoL ; McDunnough 1939: 60.

[Incertae sedis] yuccatana: Powell 1983: 42 .

Cochylis yuccatana: Razowski 1994: 294 ; Powell et al. 1995: 142.

[ Cochylini View in CoL New Genus 5] pimana: Brown 2005: 208 View in CoL ; Metzler & Brown 2014: 278.

Diagnosis. When compared to N. pimana ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 1–10 ), N. yuccatana ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 1–10 ) has a more somber chalk white to pale grayish ground color and the pattern elements reduced to a few small spots and/or an interrupted median fascia. In the male genitalia of N. yuccatana ( Fig. 25 View FIGURES 19–26 ), the distal tips of the long, curved, rodlike costa of the valva are less recurved than those of N. pimana , and the median process of the transtilla is slightly more dilated mesially.

Type. Holotype ♀, USA, Texas, Nueces Co., Nuecestown , r.f. Yucca baccata , 12 Apr 1897, C. Marlatt ( USNM).

Nycthia yuccatana has been reared from flowers, seeds, and fruiting stalks of Yucca baccata (Liliaceae) . Adults have been collected from Texas to southern California. Specimens similar to N. yuccatana occur as far south as Chiapas, Mexico, but these may represent one or more undescribed species.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Tortricidae

Genus

Nycthia

Loc

Nycthia yuccatana ( Busck, 1907 )

Brown, John W. 2019
2019
Loc

Cochylini

Metzler, E. H. & Brown, J. W. 2014: 278
Brown, J. W. 2005: 208
2005
Loc

Cochylis yuccatana: Razowski 1994: 294

Powell, J. A. & Razowski, J. & Brown, J. W. 1995: 142
Razowski, J. 1994: 294
1994
Loc

Phalonia yuccatana

McDunnough, J. 1939: 60
Busck, A. 1907: 23
1907
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