Labdia

Labdia is a species-rich genus of butterflies of the family splendor butterfly ( Cosmopterigidae ).

Features

The head of the moth is scaly smooth. The sensors are 3/4 for 4/ 5 is so long as the forewing. The labial palps are cylindrical and curved in an arc. The third segment is strongly bent upward, often reaching beyond the head. The fore wings are narrow and lanceolate and equipped with individually different drawings of lines and points. The hind wings are just to lanceolate.

In the males, the Brachia are of unequal length, usually the right brachium is much longer. The Valven are long and narrow. The Valvellae are highly asymmetrical, the left Valvella is long and provided with finger-like projections ( digitat ). The aedeagus is quite short and is covered by a very long tubular Anellus. The 7 segment elongated roundish praise.

In females, the Apophyses are posterior half times as long as the posterior Apophyses. The sterigma is oval or elongated tubular. The ductus bursae is long and narrow. The corpus bursae is oval and has no signals.

Dissemination

The representatives of the genus Labdia are mainly located in the Oriental and Afrotropical.

Biology

The caterpillars were found on various plants, the majority probably lives on dead plant or detritus.

System

The type species of the genus is Labdia deliciosella. The following list of species is based on the 2002 started by Sinev World catalog of cosmopterigid moths and was supplemented by other types of more recent work.

• Labdia acmostacta Meyrick, 1932 ( Java)
• Labdia acroplecta ( Meyrick, 1915) (Sri Lanka)
• Labdia aeolochorda Meyrick, 1927 (Samoa)
• Labdia albilineella (van Deventer, 1904) (Java)
• Labdia albimaculella (van Deventer, 1904) (Java)
• Labdia amphipterna ( Meyrick, 1917 ( India, Coorg )
• Labdia anarithma ( Meyrick, 1889 ) (New Zealand )
• Labdia ancylosema Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Northern Territory )
• Labdia ante ella Sinev & Park, 1994 ( South Korea)
• Labdia antinopa ( Meyrick, 1917) (Sri Lanka)
• Labdia apenthes Turner, 1939 ( Tasmania )
• Labdia aphanogramma Meyrick, 1931 ( South India )
• Labdia aprepes Bradley, 1961 ( Solomon Islands )
• Labdia arachnoiditis ( Meyrick, 1907 (Sri Lanka)
• Labdia Aresta Turner, 1926 (Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia argophracta Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia argyropla Meyrick, 1927 (Samoa)
• Labdia argyrostrepta ( Meyrick, 1897 ) (Australia, New South Wales)
• Labdia argyrozona ( Lower, 1904) (Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia arimaspia ( Meyrick, 1897 ) (Australia, Tasmania )
• Labdia auchmerodes Turner, 1939 ( Tasmania )
• Labdia autotoma ( Meyrick, 1919) (Australia, Tasmania )
• Labdia bathrosema ( Meyrick, 1897 (Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia bicolorella ( Snellen, 1901 ( Java)
• Labdia bitabulata Meyrick, 1935 (Taiwan)
• Labdia bryomima ( Meyrick, 1897 ) (Australia, New South Wales)
• Labdia calida Meyrick, 1921 ( Fiji)
• Labdia callibrocha ( Meyrick, 1915) (India)
• Labdia callimitris ( Meyrick, 1897 ) (Australia, New South Wales)
• Labdia calthula Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia calypta Bradley, 1961 ( Solomon Islands )
• Labdia camptosema ( Meyrick, 1897 (Australia, Victoria)
• Labdia catapneusta ( Meyrick, 1917) (Sri Lanka)
• Labdia caudata ( Meyrick, 1917) (Sri Lanka)
• Labdia caulota Meyrick, 1918 ( South Africa)
• Labdia cedrinopa Meyrick, 1928 ( New Hebrides )
• Labdia ceraunia ( Meyrick, 1897) (Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia chalcoplecta Turner, 1933 (Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia charisia ( Meyrick, 1897 ) (Australia)
• Labdia chionopsamma ( Meyrick, 1886) ( New Guinea)
• Labdia chryselecta ( Meyrick, 1897) (Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia chrysophoenicea ( Meyrick, 1897) (Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia chrysosoma Meyrick, 1928 ( New Ireland )
• Labdia citracma Meyrick, 1915 (India)
• Labdia citroglypta Meyrick, 1928 ( New Britain )
• Labdia clodiana Meyrick, 1927 ( New Hebrides )
• Labdia clopaea ( Meyrick, 1917) (Sri Lanka)
• Labdia clytemnestra Meyrick, 1923 ( Fiji)
• Labdia compar Meyrick, 1921 ( Java)
• Labdia cosmangela Meyrick, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia cremasta ( Meyrick, 1915) (India)
• Labdia croccocarpa Meyrick, 1928 ( New Hebrides )
• Labdia crocotypa Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia cyanodora Meyrick, 1935 (India)
• Labdia cyanogramma ( Meyrick, 1897 ) (Australia, New South Wales)
• Labdia deianira Meyrick, 1927 (Samoa)
• Labdia deliciosella Walker, 1864 (Australia)
• Labdia dicarpa Meyrick, 1927 (Samoa)
• Labdia dicyanitis Meyrick, 1934 ( Rapa Iti )
• Labdia Diophanes Meyrick, 1928 (Zimbabwe )
• Labdia dolomella Bradley, 1961 ( Solomon Islands )
• Labdia drosophanes ( Meyrick, 1921) (India)
• Labdia echioglossa Meyrick, 1928 (Malay Peninsula)
• Labdia ejaculata Meyrick, 1921 ( Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia embrochota ( Meyrick, 1914) (Malawi )
• Labdia emphanopa Meyrick, 1922 ( India)
• Labdia enclista ( Meyrick, 1921) (Java)
• Labdia epimictis ( Meyrick, 1897) (Australia, Victoria)
• Labdia erebopleura Meyrick, 1922 ( Borneo, Kalimantan )
• Labdia eugrapta Meyrick, 1927 (Samoa)
• Labdia eumelaena ( Meyrick, 1897 ) (Australia)
• Labdia faceta ( Meyrick, 1917) (India, Sri Lanka)
• Labdia fasciella Sinev, 1993 ( Russia, Primorye )
• Labdia fletcherella Bradley, 1951 ( India)
• Labdia gastroptila Meyrick, 1931 ( India)
• Labdia glaucoxantha Meyrick, 1921 ( Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia gypsodelta Meyrick, 1927 (Samoa)
• Labdia halticopa Meyrick, 1927 (Samoa)
• Labdia hastifera Meyrick, 1920 ( Fiji)
• Labdia helena Meyrick, 1928 ( New Ireland )
• Labdia hemidoma ( Meyrick, 1897 ) (Australia)
• Labdia hexaspila Turner, 1923 ( Australia, New South Wales)
• Labdia hieracha ( Meyrick, 1897) (Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia holopetra Meyrick, 1927 (Samoa)
• Labdia ilarcha ( Meyrick, 1911) (Seychelles )
• Labdia incompta ( Meyrick, 1917) (India)
• Labdia INTERNEXA Meyrick, 1927 (Samoa)
• Labdia intuens Meyrick, 1923 ( Fiji)
• Labdia iolampra Meyrick, 1938 ( China, Yunnan )
• Labdia ioxantha ( Meyrick, 1915) (Sri Lanka)
• Labdia irigramma Meyrick, 1927 (Samoa)
• Labdia irimetalla Meyrick, 1933 (Zaire)
• Labdia irrigua ( Meyrick, 1915) (Australia, Northern Territory )
• Labdia ischnotypa Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia isomerista Bradley, 1961 ( Solomon Islands )
• Labdia isozona ( Meyrick, 1897 ) (Australia)
• Labdia issikii Kuroko, 1892 (Japan)
• Labdia leptomeris ( Meyrick, 1897 ) (Australia)
• Labdia leptonoma Meyrick, 1927 (Samoa)
• Labdia leucatella ( Snellen, 1901 ( Java)
• Labdia leucombra ( Meyrick, 1897 ) (Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia leuconota Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia liolitha Meyrick, 1922 ( India)
• Labdia loxoscia ( Lower, 1923) (Australia, New South Wales)
• Labdia macro loaded Meyrick, 1918 ( Mozambique)
• Labdia microchalca Meyrick, 1921 ( Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia microdictyas Meyrick, 1923 ( Fiji)
• Labdia microglena ( Meyrick, 1915) (Sri Lanka)
• Labdia mitrophora Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia molybdaula ( Meyrick, 1915) (India)
• Labdia myrrhicoma ( Meyrick, 1917) (Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia nesophora ( Meyrick, 1897 ) (Australia)
• Labdia niphocera Turner, 1923 ( Australia)
• Labdia niphostephes Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia niphosticta ( Meyrick, 1936) ( Japan)
• Labdia niphoxantha Meyrick, 1930 ( India)
• Labdia notochord ( Meyrick, 1907) (Sri Lanka)
• Labdia Nutrix Meyrick, 1928 (India)
• Labdia ochrostephana Turner, 1923 ( Australia)
• Labdia ochrotypa Bradley, 1961 ( Solomon Islands )
• Labdia ortho schematic Turner, 1923 ( Australia)
• Labdia orthritis Meyrick, 1930 ( Fiji)
• Labdia oxycharis Meyrick, 1921 ( Java)
• Labdia oxychlora Meyrick, 1932 ( Sierra Leone)
• Labdia oxyleuca ( Meyrick, 1915) (Sri Lanka)
• Labdia oxysema ( Meyrick, 1897) (Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia oxytoma ( Meyrick, 1897 ) (Australia, Tasmania )
• Labdia pammeces Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia pantopyrta Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia paropis ( Meyrick, 1915) (Sri Lanka)
• Labdia pentachrysis ( Meyrick, 1931) ( Java)
• Labdia petroxesta Meyrick, 1921 ( Fiji)
• Labdia phaeocala Turner, 1926 (Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia pileata ( Meyrick, 1897 ) (Australia, New South Wales)
• Labdia planetopa ( Meyrick, 1915) (Sri Lanka)
• Labdia promacha ( Meyrick, 1897 ) (Australia, New South Wales)
• Labdia properans Meyrick, 1927 (Samoa)
• Labdia psarodes Bradley, 1961 ( Solomon Islands)
• Labdia pyrrhota ( Meyrick, 1915) (Sri Lanka)
• Labdia rationalis Meyrick, 1921 ( Fiji)
• Labdia redimita ( Meyrick, 1917) (India)
• Labdia rhadinopis Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia rhectaula Meyrick, 1927 (Samoa)
• Labdia rheocosticha Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia saliens Meyrick, 1928 ( New Hebrides )
• Labdia saponacea Meyrick, 1922 ( India)
• Labdia sarcodryas Meyrick, 1922 ( India)
• Labdia scenodoxa Meyrick, 1923 ( Fiji)
• Labdia schismatias ( Meyrick, 1897) (Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia scoliosema ( Meyrick, 1897 ) (Australia)
• Labdia selenopis ( Meyrick, 1905) (Sri Lanka)
• Labdia semicoccinea ( Stainton, 1859) (India)
• Labdia semnolitha Meyrick, 1928 ( New Hebrides )
• Labdia sirenia ( Meyrick, 1917) (Sri Lanka)
• Labdia Sophista ( Meyrick, 1917) (Sri Lanka)
• Labdia sphenoclina Meyrick, 1922 ( India)
• Labdia spiro cosma Meyrick, 1921 ( Fiji)
• Labdia stabilita ( Meyrick, 1915) India
• Labdia stagmatophorella Sinev, 1993 ( Russia, Primorye )
• Labdia stibogramma Meyrick, 1924 ( Malaya)
• Labdia symbolias ( Meyrick, 1906 (Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia terenopa ( Meyrick, 1917) (Sri Lanka)
• Labdia thalamaula ( Meyrick, 1915) (Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia thermophila ( Lower, 1900) (Australia, New South Wales)
• Labdia torodoxa Meyrick, 1928 ( New Hebrides )
• Labdia tribrachynta Meyrick, 1928 (India)
• Labdia trichaeola Meyrick, 1933 (Java)
• Labdia triploa Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia trisema ( Meyrick, 1897) ( Tasmania )
• Labdia tristoecha Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia trivincta ( Meyrick, 1897 ) (Australia, New South Wales)
• Labdia trixantha ( Lower, 1920) (Australia, Queensland)
• Labdia xylinaula Meyrick, 1935 (India)
• Labdia zunobela Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)

Documents

• Splendor falter
• Cosmopterigidae