Hodgesiella

Hodgesiella is a genus of butterflies of the family splendor butterfly ( Cosmopterigidae ).

Features

The representatives of the genus are small moths with lanceolate, pointed forewings. You have dark brown forewings, marked with three, partly incomplete white bands. The hind wings are also lanceolate and have a pointed apex.

In the males, the Tegumen is well developed. It is short and wide and the rear edge of a U-shaped bulge. The Brachia are of different lengths. The right brachium is about one and a half or twice as long as the left. The Valven are lobed, the cucullus is provided with long coarse bristles. The right Valvella is exposed and partially fused with the aedeagus. The aedeagus is bottle -shaped with a sharp point.

In females, the posterior Apophyses are very long and about three times longer than the anterior Apophyses. The sterigma is sclerotized elongate and strong. The ductus bursae is membranous and very narrow. He is about as long as the corpus bursae. The corpus bursae is oval and has a large rear elongated lobe ending in the ductus seminalis. It formed two signals that are either small and thorny or funnel-shaped.

Dissemination

The genus is widespread in the Mediterranean and Central Asia. Some species also occur in the Oriental.

Biology

The caterpillars live as leaf miners of wind plants ( Convolvulaceae ).

System

The type species of the genus is Stagmatophora rebeli. The following list of species is based on the 2002 started by Sinev World catalog of cosmopterigid moths and was supplemented by other species.

• Hodgesiella bellaqueifontis Gibeaux, 1986
• Hodgesiella callistrepta ( Meyrick, 1917)
• Hodgesiella lampropeda ( Meyrick, 1917)
• Hodgesiella puplesisi Sinev, 1989
• Hodgesiella quaggella (Christoph, 1887)
• Hodgesiella rebeli ( Crown, 1905)
• Hodgesiella reliqua Gibeaux, 1986
• Hodgesiella rhodorrhisella ( Kasy, 1970)

Documents

• Cosmopterigidae
• Splendor falter