Glaucocharis Meyrick, 1938

Léger, Théo, 2024, Half of the Diversity Undescribed: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals 32 New Species and a High Cryptic Diversity in the Scopariinae and Crambinae of the Philippines (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 3 (2), pp. 1-93 : 24-25

Glaucocharis Meyrick, 1938

Glaucocharis Meyrick, 1938 .

Type species: Glaucocharis stella Meyrick, 1938

= Pagmania Amsel, 1961: 332 . Type species: Pagmania bilinealis Amsel, 1961 . Błeszyński, 1965, p. 51 (syn.)

= Pareromene Osthelder, 1941: 366 . Type species: Pareromene rebeli Osthelder, 1941 . Gaskin, 1985, p. 11 (syn.)

= Ditomoptera Hampson, 1893: 52 , 179. Type species: Ditomoptera minutalis Hampson, 1893 .

DIAGNOSIS

Forewing with conspicuous antemedian and postmedian lines, apex usually with apical streak, termen protruding outwards at apex, below apex with an indentation reaching tip of M1, often with a secondary indentation at tip of M3 (W. Li & Li, 2012b). Male genitalia with the following characteristics: uncus and gnathos elongate, narrow, of various shapes; valva long and narrow, with narrow cucullus, costal process sclerotized, elongate, narrow, pointed outwards or upwards. Female genitalia with short papillae anales coalesced dorsally; posterior and anterior apophyses over twice the tergite length; antrum usually tubular or funnel-shaped; ductus bursae long, narrow; corpus bursae rounded or ovate, signum present or absent (W. Li & Li, 2012b; pers. obs.).

DISTRIBUTION

Known from the Afrotropics, the Palearctic, Oriental, and Australasian regions. Nine species are reported here from the Philippines: Glaucocharis lathonia ( Błeszyński, 1966) , Glaucocharis clytia ( Błeszyński, 1966) , Glaucocharis negrosensis sp. n., Glaucocharis hamulus sp. n., Glaucocharis kayumanggi sp. n., Glaucocharis kabundukanis sp. n., Glaucocharis altissima sp. n., Glaucocharis uncusellus sp. n., Glaucocharis sungay sp. n.

PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS

Glaucocharis belongs to the Diptychophorini, the mostbasal tribe of Crambinae ( Léger et al., 2019) .