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Tinea monachella Hiibner, 1796
Monopis monachella (IlUbner, 1796)
Figure 779
[Tineae], in Sammlung Europaischer Schraetterlinge,
pt. 8, p. 65, pi. 21, fig. 143.
Blahophanes monachella.—Meyrick, 1883, Ent. Montlily Mag., vol. 20, p. 36;
1894, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, p. 27.
Monopis monachella.— Meyrick, 1895, Handbook British Lepidoptera, p. 785.
Semper, 1902, Schmetterlinge Philippinischen Inseln, vol. 2, p. 705.
Meyrick, 1914, Ent. MitteU. Suppl., vol. 3, p. 59; 1928, Rev. Handbook
British Lepidoptera, p. 823; 1930, in de Joannis, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol.
99, p. 742.—Walsingham 1897, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, p. 63; 1907,
in Sharp, Fauna Hawaiiensis, vol. 1, pt. 5, p. 727.— Rebel, 1901, in Staudinger
and Rebel, Cat. Lepidopteren palaearktischen Faunengebietes, pt. 2, p. 236,
no. 4536.—Fletcher, 1920, Mem. Dept. Agric. India., Ent. ser., vol. 6, p. 194;
1933, Imp. Counc. Agric. Res., Sci. Mon., no. 4, p. 74.—Pierce and Metcalfe,
1935, Genitalia Tineina British Is., p. 97, pi. 59—DiakonoflF, 1948, Treubia,
vol. 19, p. 219. [For more literature data cf. Walsingham, 1897, Trans.
Roy. Ent. Soc. London, p. 63.]
Tinea longella Walker, 1863, List Lepidopterous Insects British Mus., pt. 28, p.
479.
Blahophanes longella.—Butler, 1881, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. 7, p. 396,
no. 29.—Walsingham, 1887, in Moore, Lepidoptera Ceylon, vol. 3, p. 503,
pi. 209, fig. 1.
Distribution: Europe, Siberia, North America, Hawaii, Samoa,
Philippine Is., Formosa, Tonkin, Sumatra, Java, Buru, India, Burma,
Ceylon, West and South Africa.
Material examined: Luzon, Mt. MakiUng (Baker) 1 cf, genit.
9 (USNM),
shde 5275, 1
Male genitaha: Valva with a straight costal edge, cucullus obtuse,
obhquely truncate. Saccus very long and slender. Aedeagus a
long and moderately wide tube. Uncus moderate, with a conical top.
Gnathos, two slender, little sclerotized narrowed processes.
Monopis avara Meyrick, 1919
Figures 427, 434, 781
Monopis avara Meyrick, 1919, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 2, p. 239 (Bombay,
c?); 1929, in de Joannis, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 98, p. 742 (Tonkin).
Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 62
(Klondyke, Benguet, Luzon 800, 1.IV.1912 (AEW), 1 9, genit. slide 5677).
Distribution: India, Tonkin.
Female, 11 mm. Head pale yellow, palpus very short, blackish
fuscous. Antenna dark fuscous bronze. Thorax dark fuscous
bronze. Abdomen glossy grey fuscous, venter and anal tuft pale
yellow.
Forewing elongate sublanceolate, dUated, costa curved posteriorly,
apex rather pointed, termen rounded, strongly oblique. Dark bronze