Diptychophora Zeller, 1866

Landry, Bernard & Becker, Vitor O., 2021, A taxonomic review of the genus Diptychophora Zeller (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae sensu lato, Crambinae) in Brazil, with descriptions of three new species, Revue suisse de Zoologie 128 (1), pp. 73-84 : 74

Diptychophora Zeller, 1866

The genus Diptychophora (type species Diptychophora kuhlweinii Zeller, 1866 ) is presently known to include 15 species from the Old and New Worlds ( Nuss et al., 2020), although the Old World species placed in Diptychophora probably belong in fact to Glaucocharis Meyrick, 1938 . The New World fauna of Diptychophora includes nine described species ( Nuss et al., 2020) that occur from the southwestern United States of America (Arizona) south to the state of Santa Catarina in the south of Brazil. The Neotropical fauna was revised by Gaskin (1986a). Landry (1990) added two new species and Solis (2009) transferred an additional species from Cybalomiinae to Diptychophora . Although synapomorphies have not been presented for the genus yet, D. powelli Landry (1990) as well as the species transferred by Solis (2009), i.e. D. lojanalis ( Dognin, 1905) , do not exhibit the typical valva shape of Diptychophora and hence may require new genera or transfers to other existing genera. No larval host is presently known for the species of Diptychophora .