Cuphodes callimacha ( Meyrick, 1920 ), 2025

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 : 49-50

Cuphodes callimacha ( Meyrick, 1920) , comb. n.

( Figs 46, 88, 89, 116, 637)

“ Acrocercops callimacha , n. sp. ”—Meyrick, E., 1920. Exotic Microlepidoptera (Marlborough) 2 (10): 293. https://www. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9808699

Acrocercops callimacha — Meyrick 1920: 293; Turner 1940: 60.

Cyphosticha callimacha — Nielsen & Kumata 1996: 48; De Prins & De Prins 2005: 168.

Type locality: [ Australia], Queensland, Brisbane .

Type specimen: Holotype ♂, coll. Walsingham nr. 19430, BMNH(E) 1055777, in NHMUK (London).

Specimens examined: Holotype ♂: Australia, Queensland, Brisbane , BMNH(E) 1055777, in NHMUK (London) (see illustration on https://www.gracillariidae.net/species_by_code/CYPHCALL).

Specimens in Australia: Specimen 1: Queensland, Rockhampton , Fairy Bower , 23.3786°S 150.5089E, 11-04-1948, leg. Common I.F.B., without abdomen, DNA voucher specimen, Sample ID: 11 ANIC-16257 , BOLD Proc. ID: ANICY257-11, ID: 31 053592. Specimen 2: ditto label data, 28-03-1948, leg. Common I.F.B., without abdomen, DNA voucher specimen, Sample ID: 11 ANIC-1625 , BOLD Proc. ID: ANICY256-11, ID: 31 053591. Specimen 3: ditto label data, leg. Common I.F.B., 11-04-1948, without abdomen, ID: 31 075740. Specimen 4 (♂): ditto, 14- 03-1948, leg. Common I.F.B., DNA sample NULT024726, genitalia slide ANIC 6228 , ANIC Acc. no 31 085599. Specimen 5(♂): ditto label data, 07-03-1948, leg. Common I.F.B., DNA sample NULT024841, genitalia slide ANIC 6229 , ANIC Acc. no 31 085600, in ANIC (Canberra) .

Morphological diagnostic characterisation ( Fig. 46): Wingspan 8.0– 8.6 mm; length of the forewing ca. 4 mm. Head: vertex smooth, labial palpus shining white as long as ca. 3× diameter of eye, very slender, antenna very long, ca. 1.5× longer than the forewing length, scape thick white, partly covering eye.

Thorax ( Fig. 46): white yellow with fuscous tegula; forewing with dark fuscous and yellow or whitish strictly defined ornamental pattern, costal margin with a very narrow stripe broadening at apex, dorsal margin with very broad yellow or white dentate band with two sub-basal triangular markings exceed well beyond the midline of forewing with their apices. Apical spot present, but almost indistinct on fuscous brown ground colour, apical line absent, fringe line very fine, short and interrupted. Hind tibia carries a characteristic row of long and sharp spines as observed in other genera of Ornixolinae .

Abdomen ( Fig. 116): Abdomen of male is spindle-shaped with enlarged part at segments III and IV. Dorsally, tergum II light brown, the rest of tergites dark brown, anterior genital segment light ochreous. Margins of abdominal opening on sternum II broadly and strongly sclerotised, ventral crossing joint very slightly bent towards the inner part of abdominal cavity, narrowly but strongly sclerotised; corners of abdominal opening angulated with narrow hook-shaped bases of sternal apodemes; sternal apodemes initiating at the corners of abdominal opening are short, slender, slightly curved at sub-basal part with very narrow sharp apices, reaching 1/3 of the segment II, terminating slightly anteriad from tergal apodemes; tergal apodemes initiate at the margin on tergum I with a single narrow short appendage at the base; tergal apodemes rather thick, melanised, slightly concave at mid part, with their sharp apices reaching almost the mid of segment II, distancing from each other at the apical part. Sternum VII in males bears two pairs of androconial brushes of coremata consisting of long piliform scales; anterior part of sternum VII in males ends with semi-oval melanised plate with two rows of tubercules at the anterior margin and a triangular androconial plate consisting of long, flat lamellar scales.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 88, 89): Tegumen broad, conical with narrowing apex, that is gently rounded; sub-scaphium is strongly developed, broad bulb-shaped with enlarged and rounded apex, richly setose with long radially-directed setae; anal tube not clearly perceptible; valvae broad, more or less equally broad along its entire length, with prolonged and protruded narrow cucullus that becomes a narrow costal appendix; cucullus covered by short thin setae; ventral surface and especially sub-apical sector of ventral part of valva is covered by long, thin setae, cucullus of valva carries a bunch of short stout thick setae-like sclerotisations arranged in a broad band; sacculus without any fold; basal valval apodemes are very long, almost reaching each other when valvae are completely open; transtilla present and shaped as a bow, far going into the teguminal cavity, equally narrow along its length; vinculum developed as a fully sclerotised plate, without vincular cavity, with hardly visible sutures of lateral arms, and very faint, almost undetectable mid vincular suture; saccus present as a short and delicate appendage, anteriorly bluntly rounded. Aedeagus ca. as long as the genital capsule, tubular, narrow in girth, with blunt vesica covered with small sharp denticules; one broad and sclerotised cornutus stretches along the main body of aedeagus+vesica; coecum weakly sclerotised, long sac-shaped, slightly broader in girth than the main body of aedeagus.

Female genitalia: No data.

BOLD data: https://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Public_SearchTerms?query=%22 Cuphodes %20callimacha% 22[tax]

GenBank data: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/529401710

Note: in BOLD and GenBank databases this species is presented as Cuphodes callimacha . Since BOLD and GenBank online databases are not considered as Code-compliant publications that are eligible to publish taxonomic/ nomenclatural acts, we present Cuphodes callimacha , comb. n. in a Code-compliant manner.

Mitogenomic data: The two C. callimacha specimens are weakly recovered as sister to C. pyrochroma , forming a strongly supported monophylum with C. pandoxa ( Fig. 637).

Bionomics: No data.

Distribution: Australia: Queensland ( Meyrick 1920: 293).