Chlumetia euthysticha Turner comb. n.

Peperita euthysticha Turner, 1942, Proc. roy. Soc. Queensland 53: 75.

Diagnosis

This species resembles transversa but the forewing reniform is less open anteriorly and the submarginal is entire, banded distally by a finely dentate white line.

In the male genitalia the valve is short, entire, narrowly elliptical; the uncus is small, tapering, spinelike; the saccus is very slender, flexed ventrally at the apex.

The spine-bearing triangular modification of the male abdominal sternite 8 is roughly as deep as wide.

In the female genitalia the basal sclerotised zone is simple, roundedly oblong; the bursa and appendix bursae are equal, the latter arising from a duct equal in length to the ductus, arising adjacent to it from the base of the bursa; the pair of signa are diagnostically elongate.

Taxonomic notes

C. postrubra, the species described below, is related to euthystichaas it has very similar male and female genitalia, but two further species are probably even closer, replacing euthysticha allopatrically (as far as material seen so far indicates) in the Oriental tropics.

These species, probably the true ‘mango shoot borers’, are described as follows: Chlumetia brevisigna sp. n. (Figs. 100, 102, 103a).♂♀ 8-9mm.

The facies is very similar to that of euthysticha, and also the male genitalia though the valves are relatively slightly longer and the saccus more slender, not broadening out so much over the basal section.

The main difference is in the female genitalia where the bursa is smaller and the signa round.

Holotype ♀

INDIA, Maxwell Coll., BM 1967-553, Karwar, 4.9.1909, BM noctuid slide 11006. Material of this species has also been seen from Sri Lanka (slide 11011), N.W. India (10987, 11016), India (11005, 11017), Singapore (1102 (11026), Java (11023), and the Philippines (11025). CIE records indicate that the species has been reared from Mangifera in India.

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