Argyrotaenia ceramica
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Ordo: Lepidoptera
Familia: Tortricidae
Genus: Argyrotaenia
Name
Argyrotaenia ceramica Razowski, 1999 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Diagnosis
Argyrotaenia ceramica (Fig. 5A–E) closely resembles members of the A. ponera group (Brown and Cramer 1999) in having both an unusually elongate wing shape in comparison to its congeners and in male genitalia with a strongly curved phallus and a well-developed caulis. Argyrotaenia ceramica can be separated by its deeply notched juxta and relatively broader phallus (Fig. 14A). The female genitalia (Fig. 16A) are not likely to be confused with any known Caribbean Argyrotaenia. The signum is short (approximately 0.33 × width of corpus bursae) and straight with a roughened, irregular capitulum. Small males could be confused with males of Clepsis jamesstewarti (Fig. 12D), but the genitalia are distinct.
Remarks
We found no morphological differences between the holotypes of A. ceramica Razowski, 1999 and A. granpiedrae Razowski & Becker, 2010. An incomplete COI barcode (408 bp) was recovered for a Cuban specimen. When complete Hispaniola sequences were aligned and cut to the same length, significant sequence divergence was observed (7.0–7.3%). We relegate A. granpiedrae to a subspecies of A. ceramica because of the lack of morphological differences, yet choose not to synonymize it based on observed differences in COI sequences (albeit incomplete), hoping that this will spur future work. Based on forewing pattern and male genitalia, A. ceramica appears to belong to the ponera group of species (Brown and Cramer 1999) from central Mexico and the southwestern United States.
Taxon Treatment
- Austin, K; Dombroskie, J; 2020: A taxonomic revision of the Archipini of the Caribbean (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae, Tortricinae) ZooKeys, 982: 33-147. doi
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