Euplocaminae Börner, 1938

Huang, Guo-Hua, Hirowatari, Toshiya & Wang, Min, 2010, A review of the China-Himalayan members of the subfamily Euplocaminae (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Tineidae), Zootaxa 2511, pp. 1-21 : 3-4

Euplocaminae Börner, 1938

Euplocamidae Börner, 1938, Die Grundlagen meines Lepidopteronsystems, 7th Internat. Kongr. f. Entomol.

Diagnosis. Members of Euplocaminae are medium to large, robust moths. Members of the subfamily are easily distinguished by the sexually dimorphic antennae: bipectinate in the male and filiform in the female. In other subfamilies antennae are either bipectinate or filiform in both sexes.

Description. Head: Vertex with erect piliform scales. Male antenna bipectinate, pectinations elongate and strongly ciliate; female antenna filiform. Maxillary palpus short. Labial palpus moderately developed and directed forward, lateral bristles on labial palpus few or absent. Thorax: Dorsal surface and tegula covered with scales. Wings moderately elongate, rounded apically; venation of both wings complete, M indistinctly forked in cell, chorda present, R4 and R5 long-stalked in forewing. Abdomen: Male segment VIII with coremata absent. Male genitalia complex, uncus 2‾4 lobed; tegumen and vinculum fused into a ring; gnathos present or absent; saccus absent; aedeagus small, free, not articulated with vinculum, inflated basally, without cornuti. Female genitalia with ovipositor long; ostium bursae small; corpus bursae without signum.

Remarks. Petersen (1958) placed the genus Euplocamus in the subfamily Euplocaminae of the family Tineidae . Their male genitalia resemble those of Nemapogon Schrank in basic structure: tegumen and vinculum together forming a ring, and uncus lobed with the lobes clearly separated by a narrow membranous area from both sides nearly to the center. Euplocamus is also similar to Perissomastix Warren & Rothschild in having the uncus with 2‾4 lobes and the saccus absent. We treat Euplocaminae as a subfamily of Tineidae on the basis of the following characters: antenna bipectinate in male, pectinations elongate and strongly ciliate, filiform in female; labial palpus either lacking lateral bristles or with very few; R4 and R5 of forewing long stalked; uncus with 2‾4 lobes; saccus absent; aedeagus basally inflated; and cornuti absent.

The larvae are crepuscular or nocturnal, and fungivorous and detritivorous ( Davis & Robinson, 1998). Although Davis & Robinson (1998) reported that adults are infrequently collected at light and are found diurnally sitting on or near their hosts, almost all of the specimens examined in this study were collected in light traps.