Cyphophanes Meyrick, 1937

Muadsub, Sopita & Pinkaew, Nantasak, 2014, Two new species of Enarmoniini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) from eastern Thailand, Zootaxa 3841 (1), pp. 127-134 : 130-132

Cyphophanes Meyrick, 1937

Cyphophanes Meyrick, 1937 was proposed with C. dyscheranta Meyrick, 1937 as its type species. Four species are known: C. dyscheranta Meyrick from Indonesia, C. dryocoma (Meyrick) from India, C. gracilivalva (Horak) from Australia, and khitchakutensis Muadsub and Pinkaew , n. sp., from Thailand, described below. The only reported food plant for the genus is Murraya sp. (Rutaceae) for C. dyscheranta ( Meyrick 1937) .

Horak (2006) characterized Cyphophanes by the subrectangular forewing with a rounded apex, and metallic blue scales with little pattern on a blackish brown ground color. Males of most species have a long, ribbon-shaped process from the base of the anal area of hindwing as in Helictophanes . The forewing venation has R 5 reaching the costa and a strongly oblique cross vein closing the discal cell, and in the hindwing the base of M 2 is distant from that of M 3. The male genitalia are characterized by a narrow and high tegumen and a narrow and slender valva with an apical thorn. The female genitalia are characterized by extended lateral-posterior corners of T7, a simple U- to ring-shaped sterigma, two signa, and an additional sclerite at the entrance to the corpus bursae.