Blastobasis Zeller 1855 ...

• Main Author: Adamski, David
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Blastobasidae; Blastobasis; antartic*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6147398; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6147398

Blastobasis Zeller, 1855 Blastobasis is the largest genus of Blastobasinae with over 160 species described worldwide. They are distributed throughout all faunal regions of the world, except Antartica, with the majority of species from the New World, including many undescribed taxa from North America (unpublished data). Synapomorphies listed by Adamski and Brown (1989) for Blastobasis include: first flagellomere of male dilated, forming a subconical process with an inner surface bearing palmate sex scales; ventroposterior margin of gnathos unidentate or bidentate mesially; and inner surface of proximal flange overlaid by microtrichiate membrane. These features need reevaluation as they were based primarily on species from the New World. However, the feature of the first flagellomere of the antennal flagellum in the male appears to be a reliable synapomorphy. Hosts of Blastobasis are varied and include living and decaying plant tissue and decomposing animal matter. In eastern North America and in Europe, ... : Published as part of Adamski, David, 2013, Review of the Blastobasinae of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Blastobasidae), pp. 1-223 in Zootaxa 3618 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3618.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/247396 ...