Bryophila perloides Guenée, 1852

Vargas-Rodríguez, Suraya M., Fibiger, Michael, Honey, Martin R., Ronkay, Gábor, Yela, José Luis, Zilli, Alberto & Ronkay, László, 2020, Bryophila perloides Guenée, 1852 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Bryophilinae), an overlooked member of the European Noctuidae fauna, with upgrading of Bryopsis Boursin, 1970 to generic level (Taxonomic studies on the western Palaearctic Bryophilinae, No. 1), Zootaxa 4845 (1), pp. 53-70 : 56-60

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4845.1.4

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4479802

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scientific name

Bryophila perloides Guenée, 1852
status

stat. nov.

Bryophila perloides Guenée, 1852 View in CoL , stat. rev.

( Figs 1a View FIGURE 1. 1 to 1d, 6a and 6b)

Material examined: 2 male syntypes in coll. NHMUK, “ Andalousie ”, one of them here designated as lectotype ( Figs 1a View FIGURE 1. 1 and 6b View FIGURE 6. 6 ) (specimen labelled as 010918082) . 1 male, 7-9-2010, Finca La Molina, Casares, Málaga , Spain (30 STF93 ), Penny Hale leg., coll. MF in coll. ZMC ( Figs 1b View FIGURE 1. 1 and 6a View FIGURE 6. 6 ) . 2 males, 24.8.2018 and 21.9.2018, Campo de Gibraltar, Algeciras, Cádiz , Spain (30 STE79 ), José Manuel Gaona Ríos phot. ( Figs 1c and 1d View FIGURE 1. 1 ) .

Lectotype designation: male, “ Andalousie ”, “ Perloides ”, “ Syntype ” (blue ring label), “Ex MUSAEO Dris BOISDUVAL”, “Fig par J. CULOT, Noct. et Géom. d’Europe, Pl. 24 Fig 12”, “Vu par Stgr pour Catal. 1900”, “Ex Oberthür Coll. Brit. Mus. 1927-3.” (specimen labelled as 010918082, coll. NHMUK) (illustrated in Fig 1a View FIGURE 1. 1 ).

Taxonomic notes: the species is listed in most recent works as subordinate to Bryopsis muralis (e.g. Poole 1989, Fibiger et al. 2009; but see Fibiger et al. 2011: 33). This statement is erroneous; this species in not a Bryopsis but a true Bryophila , according to the genital configuration (see above). All five known specimens are from Andalucía, S. Spain; therefore perloides is the only European member of the group.

External diagnosis: Ground colour bright olive green ( Figs 1a and 1b View FIGURE 1. 1 ) to dull greyish ( Figs 1c and 1d View FIGURE 1. 1 ). Forewings relatively small and tapered to the apex. Unlike B. domestica , subbasal and antemedian lines fused basally by an inner marginal line, forming the omega-shaped design typical of the species-group, which is completely closed in perloides ; this feature is shared with the species of Bryopsis (e.g. B. muralis ), where it is open to almost open in its basal part ( Figs 1e and 1f View FIGURE 1. 1 ). Dark spots at the costa very subtle. Unlike B. muralis , but in common with the rest of the species of the group, black X-mark on the forewings proximal to reniform stigma present. Antemarginal line absent or very subtle, in contrast to B. muralis , where it is quite apparent.

Genital diagnosis: male genitalia simple, as in the rest of the species of the group; all species have similar genitalia, mostly differing in subtle details ( Figs 6a View FIGURE 6. 6 to 7c). Those of B. perloides ( Figs 6a and 6b View FIGURE 6. 6 ) are particularly similar to those of B. barbaria ( Fig 6c View FIGURE 6. 6 ), but the uncus is more incrassate subapically, with shorter tip, whereas that of B. barbaria is more gradually tapered towards its apex. Additionally, the aedeagus of B. perloides shows a narrow coecum penis and broadens to its distal end, whereas in B. barbaria and other closely related species it is more or less cylindrical. Costal and hind margins of the valvae of B. perloides are almost parallel; the sacculus is weaker and smaller, the clasper smaller too, fully embedded onto the central area of valva, with slightly spatulate apex. Vesica without cornuti. The female genitalia has not yet been studied, no females have been collected so far.

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

ZMC

Deptment of Biology, Zunyi Medical College

HNHM

Hungarian Natural History Museum (Termeszettudomanyi Muzeum)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Bryophila

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