Dichomeris Hubner 1818

• Main Authors: Li, Houhun, Zhen, Hui, Mey, Wolfram
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Gelechiidae; Dichomeris; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6154992; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A70133FFBE1347B180FF15FD242F25

Dichomeris Hübner, 1818 Dichomeris Hübner, 1818: 25. Type species: Dichomeris ligulella Hübner, 1818, by subsequent designation. Synonyms see Hodges 1986. Diagnostic characters: Head with ocellus present or absent; labial palpus with developed scale tuft or long scales on second segment; mesothorax with or without hair pencil arising from anepisternum in male; forewing with R1, R2 and R3 almost parallel, R4 and R5 short-stalked, M2 close to M3, CuA1 and CuA2 short-stalked, 1A+2A forked basally, CuP absent; hindwing with M3 close to or fused with CuA2 at base. Male gnathos strongly hook-shaped, culcitula densely spinous; valva with either dorsal margin or ventral margin protrudent, or dilated distally; vinculum developed, usually with symmetrical lateral lobes; sicae developed, phallus with one or several sclerotized lobes from zone. Female ductus bursae usually with sclerotized lobes extending into corpus bursae; corpus bursae with accessory bursae, signum present or absent. Biology . Larvae of the most known species in this genus feed on woody plants. Most of them feed in folded or rolled leaves, some feed in buds, bean-pod and roots, and some feed in leaf or needle miners (Li 2002). Distribution . The genus Dichomeris occurs in all regions except New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, the arctic and subarctic regions (Hodges 1986, Dugdale 1988). Published as part of Li, Houhun, Zhen, Hui & Mey, Wolfram, 2013, Notes on Dichomeris Hübner, 1818 from Southern Africa and Kenya, with description of seven new species (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae, Dichomeridinae), pp. 561-574 in Zootaxa 3608 (7) on page 562, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3608.7.3, http://zenodo.org/record/221060