Pyroderces
Pyroderces is a genus of butterflies of the family splendor butterfly ( Cosmopterigidae ).
Features
The head is slightly stretched forward. The eyes are pigmented red. The labial palps are long, curved and scaly. The fore wings are narrow and lanceolate. The apex is elongated and tapers to. The forewings have a yellowish to reddish ground color and are more or less clearly marked with bands or spots. The hind wings are very narrow and elongated.
In the males, the Tegumen is broad, slightly curved and dorsally provided with a reinforcing ridge. The right half is larger than the left. The Brachia are well sclerotized and slightly curved. The right brachium is about one and a half times as long as the left. The Valven are simple, spatulate to long and narrow. The Valvellae are strongly asymmetric. The left Valve is long and slender, the right is formed only rudimentary or missing entirely. The aedeagus is very short. It tapers distally, the back he has a sclerotized ring, which is often a flange. The Manica is very long, tapering distally and often has a curved tip. The lateral praise of the 8th segment are round or oblong.
In females, the posterior Apophyses are slightly longer than the anterior Apophyses. The ostium is very small and is surrounded by a sclerotic rim. The sterigma is slightly asymmetrical. The ductus bursae is long and narrow. The corpus bursae is oval or elongated and having two different signals and often provided with rows of small sclerotized platelets.
Dissemination
The representatives of the genus are native to the Palaearctic and Africa. The range extends in Europe only in the north to Central Europe.
Biology
The caterpillars live in the flower baskets of Compositae (Asteraceae). There they eat the seeds or prey on other insects.
System
In Europe, the genus Pyroderces is represented by six species. The following list of species is based on the 2002 started by Sinev World catalog of cosmopterigid moths and was supplemented by other species. The type species of the genus is Pyroderces goldeggiella Herrich -Schäffer, 1853 ( = Pyroderces argyrogrammos (Zeller, 1847) ).
- Pyroderces albistrigella ( Möschler, 1890) (Puerto Rico)
- Pyroderces argobalana Meyrick, 1915 (Australia, Queensland)
- Pyroderces argyrogrammos (Zeller, 1847) (Italy, Sicily)
- Pyroderces arsitricha ( Meyrick, 1927) (Samoa)
- Pyroderces bifurcata Zhang & Li, 2009 (China, Wuqing )
- Pyroderces brosi Riedl, 1969 ( Italy)
- Pyroderces caesaris Gozmany, 1957 ( Hungary)
- Pyroderces dimidiella ( Snellen, 1885) ( Sulawesi )
- Pyroderces diplecta Meyrick, 1935 (Sri Lanka)
- Pyroderces eupogon Turner, 1926 (Australia, New South Wales)
- Pyroderces hapalodes Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)
- Pyroderces klimeschi Rebel, 1938 ( Hungary)
- Pyroderces melanosarca Meyrick, 1937 (Java)
- Pyroderces narcota ( Meyrick, 1909) (South Africa, Transvaal )
- Pyroderces ocreella Viette, 1955 (Madagascar)
- Pyroderces orient ella Sinev, 1993 ( Primorye )
- Pyroderces phaeostigma Bradley, 1961 ( Solomon Islands )
- Pyroderces pogonias Turner, 1923 ( Australia, New South Wales)
- Pyroderces sarcogypsa ( Meyrick, 1932) (Japan, Honshu )
- Pyroderces syngalactis Meyrick, 1928 ( New Hebrides )
- Pyroderces tenuilinea Turner, 1923 ( Australia, Queensland)