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A SUPPOSEDLY COSMOPOLITAN INSECT: THE CELERY WEBWORM AND ALLIES, GENUS NOMOPHILA HÜBNER (LEPIDOPTERA: PYRALIDAE: PYRAUSTINAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Eugene Munroe
Eugene Munroe
Affiliation:
Entomology Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa
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Abstract

The supposedly cosmopolitan species Nomophila noctuella (Denis and Schiffermüller) is shown to be one of a complex of 12 distinct species, some sympatric, some allopatric, and none ranging over more than three continents. N. noctuella itself has the widest range, extending through most of the Palaearctic and Ethiopian regions, including Madagascar, and into tropical Asia as far as India and Pulo Laut. It also occurs adventively in Hawaii. Two additional endemic species, N. africana n. sp. and N. brevispinalis n. sp., occur in Africa; the Australian species, N. australica n. sp., is endemic but occurs, probably adventively, on Christmas Island. The North American species, N. nearctica n. sp., is distinct from N. noctuella, but, like it, is a migrant and ranges south to northern tropical America. There are six endemic species in South America: N. colombiana n. sp., Colombia; N. heterospila (Meyrick), Andes, transferred from Macronomeutis, which falls as a synonym of Nomophila; N. helvolalis (Maassen), Andes; N. distinctalis n. sp., Peru, Bolivia, and Chile; N. indistinctalis (Walker), central and southern South America; and N. triticalis Berg, Argentina and Paraguay, to which N. squalidalis (Hampson) falls as a synonym. N. incognita Viette, known from a single female from Amsterdam Island, Indian Ocean, is a good species.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 105 , Issue 2 , February 1973 , pp. 177 - 216
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1973

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