Eichlinia snowii (Hy Edwards, 1882 ) Gorbunov, 2020

Gorbunov, O. G., 2020, Establishment of Eichlinia gen. n. for the Western hemisphere Melittiini (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae), with a catalogue of the genus, Russian Entomological Journal 29 (3), pp. 276-284 : 282

Eichlinia snowii (Hy Edwards, 1882) , comb.n.

“ Melittia Snowii. n. s.” — Edwards, 1882: 53. Type locality: “ Kansas, …” [= USA: Kansas]. Lectotype ♂ (AMNH), designated by Duckworth, Eichlin, 1973a: 27.

Mellitia snowii — Beutenmüller, 1892: 171; Beutenmüller, 1896: 113; Beutenmüller, 1899: 149, 150; Beutenmüller, 1901: 234, pl. 29, fig. 2; Dalla Torre, Strand, 1925: 148; Zukowsky, 1936: 1249, pl. 179, row b; Engelhardt, 1946: 182, 186; Duckworth, Eichlin, 1973a: 27; Duckworth, Eichlin, 1977: 52; Solomon, Dix, 1979: 16; Heppner, Duckworth, 1981: 27; Friedlander, 1986: 279, 281–283; Eichlin, Duckworth, 1988: 52, 54, text-fig. 13f, pl. 2, fig. 7; Eichlin, 1995: 48; Pühringer, Kallies, 2004: 17; Taft, Schaper, 2014: 60; Pohl et al., 2016: 206; Moreira et al., 2019: 42, 43.

Melittia snowi — McDunnough, 1939: 87; Stallings, Turner, 1944: 31.

HOST PLANT. Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth ( Cucurbitaceae ).

DISTRIBUTION. USA: Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas .

Acknowledgements. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Gilson R.P. Moreira (Universidade Federal do Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil) for sending to me papers of some South American authors. I am indebted to Mr. Vlad Proklov (London, England) for carefully checking the English of an advanced draft. The study was conducted using the equipment of the Joint Usage Center “Instrumental methods in ecology” at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia).