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Generische Revision der amerikanischen Zygaenidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) mit Beschreibung neuer Genera und Arten (Insecta: Lepidoptera) (Text)
Abstract
This is the first volume(text volume) of two of a generic revision of the American Zyganidae Lattreille, 1809. Most of the availbale type material was checked. 5 new genera and 24 new seocies are described and 137 taxonomical and nomenclatorical changes have been done.The main characters and their variability and value for taxonomical, systematical and phylogenetical studies are discussed. A checklist for all described taxa and a key to the genera is given. Moreover, new information on the biology, genitalia morphology and wingscale ultrastrucutre is provided.
... However, in 1892, William Forsell Kirby, then an employee of the British Museum of Natural History (Bragg 2007) and possibly unaware of the work by Cabanis and Heine, described the generic name Nesace Kirby, 1892 to replace Pampa Walker, 1854. In 1973, Walter Gerald Tremewan published "A Catalog of the Genus-Group Names of the Zygaenidae (Lepidoptera)", where he argued that "The exact date of publication of Pampa Reichenbach is unknown, but it is known by external evidence that Pampa Walker was published on II.ii.1854 (11 February 1854); the latter should therefore take priority" and indicated that Nesace was "an unnecessary replacement name for Pampa Walker, 1854" (Tremewan, 1973 a view also supported by Gerhard Tarmann (1984). ...
A case of homonymy between Pampa Walker, 1854 (a genus of zygaenid moths) and Pampa Reichenbach, 1854 (a genus of hummingbirds) has been the subject of multiple attempts at resolution during the 19th and 20th centuries. Although previously resolved, the homonymy resurfaced when phylogenetic analysis of Campylopterus Swainson, 1827 revealed it to be paraphyletic, leading to its reclassification and the resurrection of several genera, including Pampa Reichenbach, 1854 (Stiles et al. 2017). This probably happened in part because most of the literature regarding the history of Pampa Walker, 1854 is not readily accessible either online or in printed form for researchers outside the field of Zygaenidae taxonomy. To address this issue, we present the bibliographical evidence regarding both genera and revalidate Platystylopterus Reichenbach, 1854 rev. stat. as the valid genus for the hummingbirds.
A survey on the taxa of the statices-group in the genus Procris F. (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae) is given in the present paper. It is shown that the present classification of this group is unsatisfactory since it does not agree with the known facts of the evolution of the group. New data on the taxonomy, the variability of some characteristics in genital structures and the morphology of the antenna and other features, on hybrid populations, the larval biology and breeding experiments are given. The importance of these characters in the evolution of the statices-group is discussed in detail. One species and 6 subspecies are considered to be synonyms.
The biology and the early stages of Jordanita (Solaniterna) subsolana (Staudinger, 1862) is summarised in ths paper. Cirsium eriophorum is reported for the first time as a larval host-plant from the Alps in Südtirol (Alto Adige) in Italy. The feeding marks of the larva of J. subsolana are compared with the feeding marks of the larvae of Depressaria carduella and Calicyphora nephelodactyla that use the same larval host-plant.
The western grape leaf skeletonizer, native to the southwestern states and northern
Mexico, was first found in San Diego County in 1941 and very soon thereafter demonstrated
a capacity to cause serious crop losses in the vineyards of that county. A biological
control program was started in 1950 as a part of a comprehensive plan to control existing
infestations and to prevent their spread to the more important commercial grape-growing
areas to the north. Exploration for natural enemies was conducted during 1950 to 1952
and covered the known area of distribution of the pest in the Southwest and Mexico,
as well as that of related species in the Atlantic Coast States from New York to Florida.
Two insect parasites of the larvae and a virus disease were established in San Diego
County as a result of importations from Arizona. These have been highly effective
in reducing existing infestations to a low level, with only occasional short-lived
outbreaks in semicommercial and back-yard plantings. They have also aided in preventing
spread of the pest.
