Analyta Lederer, 1863

Mally, Richard, Korycinska, Anastasia, Agassiz, David J. L., Hall, Jayne, Hodgetts, Jennifer & Nuss, Matthias, 2015, Discovery of an unknown diversity of Leucinodes species damaging Solanaceae fruits in sub-Saharan Africa and moving in trade (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea), ZooKeys 472, pp. 117-162 : 142-143

Taxon classification Animalia Lepidoptera Crambidae

Analyta Lederer, 1863

Analyta Lederer, 1863. Type species: Analyta albicillalis Lederer, 1863.

Hyperanalyta Strand, 1918, syn. rev. Type species: Analyta pseudoapicalis Strand, 1918.

Analyta apicalis (Hampson, 1896), comb. n. ( Leucinodes ). Type locality: India, Dharamsala. Sri Lanka.

Analyta (Hyperanalyta) pseudoapicalis Strand, 1918 (synonymised by Shibuya 1928). Type locality: China, Taiwan, Anping.

Material examined.

Types: Holotype albicillalis [circular white label with red border] “Type”, [beige label with brown border and triangular edges] "Amboina | Doll.", [rectangular white label] "Felder | Collection.", [rectangular white label] "Rothschild | Bequest | B.M.1939-1.", [rectangular beige handwritten label] "Amboina | Dol.", [rectangular beige handwritten label] " Analyta | albicillalis m", [rectangular brown label with central white area, roundly bordered by dark brown and yellow] " albicillalis Led." (BMNH); Holotype apicalis ♂ [circular label with red border] “Type”, [rectangular white label] “4-94”, [rectangular white label] "Ceylon | 95-119", [rectangular white handwritten label] " Leucinodes | apicalis | type ♂ Hmpsn.", transparent capsule with abdomen (BMNH); Holotype pseudoapicalis ♂ [red rectangular label] “Holotypus”, [white rectangular label] "Anping | Formosa | H. Sauter VI.1911.", [rectangular white label] " Analyta | pseudoapi | calis m.| Strand det. ♂" (SDEI).

Remarks.

Hyperanalyta Strand, 1918, with type species Analyta pseudoapicalis Strand, 1918 was established as a subgenus of Analyta Lederer, 1863. Later, Analyta pseudoapicalis was synonymised with Leucinodes apicalis Hampson, 1896 by Shibuya 1928. Thus, Hyperanalyta had to be regarded as a synonym of Leucinodes . Our investigation of Leucinodes apicalis , Analyta pseudoapicalis and Analyta albicillalis Lederer, 1863, the type species of Analyta Lederer, 1863, showed for all three species group taxa the presence of two frenular bristles in females (one in Leucinodes ), the lack of distal discoidal stigma and L-shaped or triangular spot at central dorsum as characteristic for Leucinodes , but a homologous wing pattern common for the three taxa: forewing antemedian area brown; distal discoidal stigma a pale brown thin line; postmedian line sinuate; apical dark spot reaching outer forewing margin (white border in Leucinodes ). We therefore rule out the congenerity of Leucinodes apicalis and Analyta pseudoapicalis with Leucinodes and transfer both to Analyta .