Parectopa alysidota ( Meyrick, 1880 )

Prins, Jurate De, Hartley, Diana, Sruoga, Virginijus, Nicholls, James, Wallace, Jesse & Zwick, Andreas, 2025, Diversity of Australian Ornixolinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) with taxonomic and nomenclatural acts within the related taxa (Acrocercopinae and Gracillariinae) based on the evidence of museomics, bionomics, and mitogenomics, Zootaxa 5616 (1), pp. 1-340 : 210-211

Parectopa alysidota ( Meyrick, 1880)

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“ Grac.[ilaria] alysidota , sp. n. ”—Meyrick, E., 1880. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 5 (1): 161–162.

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6455826 Gracillaria alysidota — Meyrick 1882: 198; Turner 1896: 1. Conopomorpha alysidota — Meyrick 1897: 58. Acrocercops alysidota — Turner 1913: 178, 1940: 68; Hudson 1928: 322; Dugdale 1988: 70; Nielsen & Kumata 1996: 48;

Appleton et al. 1997: 73; Appleton 1998: 20; De Prins & De Prins 2005: 19. Parectopa alysidota — Hoare et al. 2019: 65 (Appendix). Parectopa citharoda Meyrick, 1916c —A junior subjective synonym of Gracilaria alysidota Meyrick, 1880 , synonymized by

Dugdale (1988: 70).

Type locality: [ Australia, New South Wales], Sydney, Bulli Pass .

Type specimen: Lectotype ♂, designated by Dugdale (1988: 70), BMNH(E) 1404493, in NHMUK (London), Note: additionally, unverified specimen ♀ (in total 3 specimens were mentioned).

Specimens examined: Lectotype ♂: with abdomen, [1] Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, 25 October 1879; [2] Meyrick Coll., B. M. 1938-290; [3] Syntype? [recte Lectotype]; [4] ‘ alysidota Meyr’; [5] Acrocercops alysidota , 12/6 Meyr, E. Meyrick det., in Meyr. Coll.; [6] BMNH(E) 1404493, in NHMUK (London).

Unverified specimens: Specimen 1: Western Australia: Albany , 29 September 1886, Meyrick Coll 1938-290, Acrocercops alysidota 12/9 Meyr., E. Meyrick det. in Meyrick coll., BMNH(E) 1404487, in NHMUK (London) .

Australian Capital Territory: Specimen 2(♂): Blundell’s, 1 mile South, 35.2928°S 149.1417°E, Barcode of Life , DNA Voucher specimen, Sample ID: 11 ANIC-16234 , BOLD Proc.ID: ANICY234-11, 30-03-1951, leg. Common I.F.B., ANIC Acc. no 31 053805. Specimen 15, 16: Acton, 35.2799°S 149.1193°E, 21-08-1948, leg. Common I.F.B., in ANIC (Canberra) .

Queensland: Specimen 3: Warwick , 28.2138°S 152.0307°E, 05-09-1928, leg. Nihil. Specimens 4–7: Brisbane , 27.4705°S 153.0260°E, no date, leg. Nihil. Specimen 8: Queensland National Park , 27.8287°S 150.0831°E, 14-11- 1925, leg. Nihil. Specimen 9: Brisbane, August , no precise data, leg. Nihil. Specimen 10: Brisbane , 23-07-1921, leg. Nihil. Specimen 11: Queensland National Park , 11-11-1925, leg. Nihil. Specimen 14: Toowoomba , 27.5598°S 151.9507°E, 17-03-1950, leg. Common I.F.B., in ANIC (Canberra) .

New South Wales: Specimen 12(♀): Batemans Bay, 13 miles South, 35.7162°S 150.1795°E, 02-09-1948, leg. Common I.F.B., ANIC Acc. no 31 053806. Specimen 13: idem collecting data. Specimen 17: Jervis Bay , 35.0481°S 150.7447°E, 19-09-1949, leg. Common I.F.B., in ANIC (Canberra) .

Note: the synonymy of Parectopa citharoda Meyrick, 1916c (Lectotype (E) BMNH(E) 1404494) with Gracillaria alysidota Meyrick, 1880 (Lectotype BMNH(E) 1404493) needs confirmation.

Morphological diagnostic characterisation. Wingspan 8.5–8.7 mm; length of the forewing 4.0– 4.1 mm.

Head: vertex snowy white, occiput white, with two tufts of short piliform scales, directed posteriad, labial palpus slender, as long as ca. 2× diameter of eye, with sharp apex, directed straight forward, covered with roughly attached scales, apical palpomere snowy white; antenna approximately as long as forewing dark brown; scape concolourous with the rest of the flagellomeres.

Thorax: dirty white, tegula dark brown. Forewing ground colour dark ochreous, the basal part of costal margin is marked as white stripe, first costal strigula at 1/3 of forewing, the second costal strigula at mid of forewing, is bent at midline, the third costal strigula at sub-apical 1/3, and followed by two short triangular apical strigulae, white stripe on dorsal margin slightly waving till mid forewing, with striga at the terminal end, followed by an oval dorsal patch and sub-apical sinusoid dorsal strigula; apical part of dorsum bears apical strigula mirroring the first apical costal strigula; apical spot oval, contrasting; apical line black, rather thick, gently runs around the apex of the forewing, fringe line, thick, dark brown. Hindwing light fuscous, narrow, with sharply pointed apex. Legs rather slender, tarsus of mid legs with three white rings, hind legs more or less monochromous, hind tibiae with erected scales.

Abdomen: dorsally light fuscous, matte, tip of the anterior genital segment dirty white.

BOLD data: https://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxon =alysidota &searchTax=Search +Taxonomy

GenBank data: No data.

Mitogenomic data: No data.

Bionomics: Fabaceae : Acacia longifolia (Andrews) Willd. ( Meyrick 1882: 198) , A. melanoxylon R. Br. ( Appleton et al. 1997: 73) , A. pycnantha Benth , A. saligna ( Watt 1916: 413) , Acacia sp. ( Hudson 1928: 322).

Distribution: Australia: ACT: new record, New South Wales ( Meyrick 1880: 162), Queensland ( Turner 1896: 1), South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia ( Meyrick 1907: 58); New Zealand (as P. citharoda ) ( Meyrick 1916c: 418).