Xyleutes strix ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Yakovlev, Roman V., Sankararaman, Hariharakrishnan, Balaji, Rajasekaran Krishna & Balakrishnan, Valappil, 2021, A world catalogue of Xyleutes Hübner, 1820 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae: Zeuzerinae) with description of a new species from the Western Ghats of India, Zootaxa 5040 (4), pp. 565-574 : 570-571

Xyleutes strix ( Linnaeus, 1758)

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Phalaena strix Linnaeus, 1758 , Systema Naturae: 508.

Type locality. America Merid. (error). The type locality has subsequently been amended to Java. The original description of P. strix Linnaeus, 1758 , was a mixture of two different species of large moths, a noctuid from South America and a cossid from the Oriental Region. In his original description Linnaeus referred to Merian (1705: 20, pl. 20), a large noctuid later described as Phalaena agrippina Cramer, 1779a (136, 138, pl. 87, fg. A, pl. 88, fg. A.) from Surinam, and now the type species of Thysania Dalman, 1824 . Linnaeus also indicated by the letters M[usei] L[udovicae] U[lricae] that he had a specimen to examine. Clerck (1764, 2: pl. 51) illustrated this specimen which is a cossid. This species was again figured as strix Linnaeus by Cramer (1779b: 77, pl. 145: fg. A.). The confused nomenclature has been discussed and cleared up by Roepke (1957), and thereafter accepted in the literature, that the name strix is to be applied to the cossid. The type-locality is however, uncertain. Clerck gave no locality but Roepke considered that his figure possibly represents a female from Java, and so restricted the type locality to this island ( Fletcher & Nye 1982). Type material is lost ( Roepke 1957).

= Zeuzera signata Walker, 1856 , List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum Vol. VII, Lepidoptera Heterocera : 1537. Type locality: North India. Type material. Holotype in NHMUK, examined.

= Zeuzera bubo Butler, 1882 , Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 10: 228–229. Type locality: New Britain [New Britain Isl., Papua New Guinea]. Type material. Holotype in NHMUK, examined.

= Xyrena tigrata Houlbert, 1916, Ètudes de Lepidopterologie Comparée 9 bis: 78, 114. Type locality: Sulawesi or Ambon. Type material. Holotype in MNHN, examined.

= Xyleutes stryx var. formosicola Strand, 1915 , Archiv für Naturgeschichte 81A. 8: 42. Type locality: Formosa [Tai- wan]. Type material. Holotype in DEIM, examined.

Distribution. India, Bhutan, China (Yunnan, Guangxi, Xizang, Qinghai), Taiwan, Malaysia, Philippines, the Indonesian Archipelago to New Guinea and New Britain Isl. ( Horsfield & Moore 1857; Snellen 1879, 1895, 1901; Cotes & Swinhoe 1887; Swinhoe 1892, 1895; Semper 1896 -1902; Dudgeon 1899; Strand 1915; Houlbert 1916; Oberthür 1916; Ćandèze 1926; De Joannis 1929; Esaki et al. 1932; Gaede 1933; Roepke 1955, 1957; Arora 1976; Barlow 1982; Hua et al. 1990; Yakovlev 2004, 2014; Smetacek 2008; Yakovlev & Witt 2009).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Habitus of Xyleutes (males).A. X. keyensis Strand, 1919, Indonesia, Western Timor, Buraenenv., 60 km SE Kupang, 350 m a.s.l., 10–27 Feb. 2006, leg. Jakl (MWM). B. X. personus (Le Guillou, 1841), Nepal, Annapurna Himal, Valley of Kali Gandaki, near Tatopani, 28º29′ N, 83º39′ E, 1100 m a.s.l., 22 July 1995, leg. Gy.M. László and G. Ronkay (MWM). C. X. strix (Linnaeus, 1758), Nordborneo, Trus Madi, 9–14 April 2006, 1150 m a.s.l., leg. Martini (MWM).