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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 165
The type specimen, unique, is in the Paris Museum. The elegantly
colored species is very distinct. The holotype studied, 9,
genit. slide 5507, labelled "Philippines, Manilla."
Female genitalia: Ovipositor moderate, lobi anales semioval,
slightly pointed. Anapophyses very slender, moderately long, postapophyses
similar, twice as long. Ductus bursae extremely long,
tortuous and coiled simultaneously. Corpus bursae with a reticulate
wall, signa elongate, moderately scobinate plates. Abdominal wall
sclerotized throughout.
Pyroderces Herrich- Shaffer, 1853
Pyroderces simplex Walsinghain , 1891
Figure 636
Pyroderces simplex Walsinghain, 1891, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, p. 119, pi. 6,
fig. 58 (cf 9, Gambia).— Durrant, 1912, Bull. Ent. Res., vol. 3, p. 206, fig. 2
(India, Egypt).—Lamborn, 1914, Bull. Ent. Res., vol. 5, p. 201 (Egypt, E.
Africa).-Willcocks, 1916, Insect Pests Egypt, vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 317, pi. 7,
figs. 7-9 (Egypt).—Fletcher, 1933, Imp. Counc. Agric. Res., Sci. Mon., no. 4,
p. 4.
Anatrachyntis simplex.—Fletcher, 1917, Rep. Proc. 2nd Ent. Meeting Pusa, p.
114.— 1921, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 6, p. 98.—Corbett and
Gates, 1926, Bull. Dept. Agric. Federated Malay States, no. 38, p. 8 (Malaya).
Batrachedra coriacella Snellen, 1901, Tijdschr. Ent., vol. 44, p. 95, pi. 6, figs. 7,
7a (cf, head, Java).
Stagmatophora coriacella.—IMaxwell-Lefroy, 1909, Indian Insect Life, p. 536.
Meyrick, 1910, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, p. 372 (Mauritius).
Pyroderces coriacella.—Fletcher, 1914, South Indian Insects . . ., p. 458, fig. 334
(India).—Meyrick, 1914, Ent. Mitt. Suppl., vol. 3, p. 52 (Formosa).
Anatrachyntis coriacella.—Meyrick, 1915, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 1, p. 325.
Stagmatophora gossypiella Walsingham, 1906, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 18,
p. 178 (Egypt).—Morstatt, 1912, Pflanzer, vol. 8, p. 253 (East Africa).
Distribution: India, Burma, Java, Formosa, Mauritius, throughout
Africa. Probably everywhere in the Old World where cotton is grown.
Food plant: Cotton (Gossypium, seeds). African oil palm {Elaeis
giiineensis) , Eriodendron frondosum
Material examined: Luzon, Manila, 15.VII.1917, on cotton boll
(D.B. Mackie), "Ace. No. 2980," 10 specimens. Santos, Cotabato,
October 1954 (Y.J. Madrid), "No. Ec. 7," "7a." 2 rubbed specimens
(USNM).
Cosmopteryx Iliibner, 1826
Key to the Species of Cosmopteryx
1. Forewing, transverse band yellow, with a black dot; median white line from
base to middle of wing
C. dulcivora
Forewing, transverse band orange, without dot, median white line sliort,
before 1/4
C. basilisca