Autosticha

Autosticha
Autosticha gelechid moth (Autosticha pelodes)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Division:	Ditrysia
Superfamily:	Gelechioidea
Family:	Autostichidae
Subfamily:	Autostichinae
Genus:	Autosticha Meyrick, 1886
Type species
Automola pelodes Meyrick, 1883
Species
Numerous, see text
Synonyms
[1] Automola Meyrick, 1883 (non Loew, 1873: preoccupied) Prosomura Turner, 1919 Epicharma Durrant in Walsingham & Durrant, 1897 Epicoenia Meyrick, 1906 Semnolocha Meyrick, 1936

Autosticha is a genus of gelechioid moths. It belongs to the subfamily Autostichinae, which is either placed in the concealer moth family (Oecophoridae), or in an expanded Autostichidae. It is the type genus of its subfamily (and the Autostichidae). Originally, this genus was named Automola, but this name properly refers to a fly genus in family Richardiidae.^[1]

Typically, these moths have the second and third forewing vein emerging from a common stalk. The labial palps are characteristically tapering from the second segment onwards and end in a pointed tip.^[2]

Several originally independent genera are now included here, and while most of them are probably not even valid as subgenera, some species included in Autosticha have been historically assigned to entirely different Gelechioidea lineages, such as the long-horned moths (Lecithoceridae) or the Xyloryctidae.^[3]

Species

Species of Autosticha are:^[4]

Autosticha academica Meyrick, 1922 Autosticha acharacta Meyrick, 1918 Autosticha affixella (Walker, 1864) Autosticha ansata Meyrick, 1931 Autosticha aspasta Meyrick, 1908 Autosticha arcivalvaris S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha aureolata Meyrick, 1908 Autosticha authaema (Meyrick, 1906) Autosticha auxodelta Meyrick, 1916 Autosticha bacilliformis S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha banauscopa (Meyrick, 1929) Autosticha bilobella Park & Wu, 2003 Autosticha binaria Meyrick, 1908 Autosticha calceata Meyrick, 1908 Autosticha chernetis (Meyrick, 1906) Autosticha chishuiensis S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha chlorodelta (Meyrick, 1906) Autosticha cipingensis S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha complexivalvula S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha conciliata Meyrick, 1918 Autosticha conjugipunctata S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha consimilis Park & Wu, 2003 Autosticha crocothicta Meyrick, 1916 Autosticha cuspidata Park & Wu, 2003 Autosticha dayuensis Park & Wu, 2003 Autosticha deductella (Walker, 1864) Autosticha demetrias Meyrick, 1908 Autosticha demias Meyrick, 1886 Autosticha demotica Meyrick, 1908 Autosticha dianeura Meyrick, 1939 Autosticha dimochla Meyrick, 1935 Autosticha emmetra Meyrick, 1921 Autosticha encycota Meyrick, 1922 Autosticha enervata Meyrick, 1929 Autosticha euryterma Meyrick, 1920 Autosticha exemplaris Meyrick, 1916 Autosticha fallaciosa S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha flavescens Meyrick, 1916 Autosticha flavida S.X.Wang, 2004

Autosticha guangdongensis Park & Wu, 2003 Autosticha guttulata Meyrick, 1925 Autosticha hainanica Park & Wu, 2003 Autosticha heteromalla S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha imitativa Ueda, 1997 Autosticha iterata Meyrick, 1916 Autosticha kyotensis (Matsumura, 1931) Autosticha latiuncusa Park & Wu, 2003 Autosticha leucoptera J.F.G.Clarke, 1986 Autosticha leukosa Park & Wu, 2003 Autosticha lushanensis Park & Wu, 2003 Autosticha maculosa S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha menglunica S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha merista Clarke, 1971 Autosticha microphilodema S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha mingchrica Park & Wu, 2003 Autosticha mirabilis S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha modicella (Christoph, 1882) Autosticha nanchangensis S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha naulychna Meyrick, 1908 Autosticha nothriforme (Walsingham, 1897) Autosticha nothropis Meyrick, 1921 Autosticha oxyacantha S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha pachysticta (Meyrick, 1936) Autosticha pelaea Meyrick, 1908 Autosticha pelodes (Meyrick, 1883) – autosticha gelechid moth

Autosticha pentagona Park & Wu, 2003 Autosticha perixantha Meyrick, 1914 Autosticha petrotoma Meyrick, 1916 Autosticha phaulodes Meyrick, 1908 Autosticha protypa Meyrick, 1908 Autosticha pyungyangenis Park & Wu, 2003 Autosticha rectipunctata S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha relaxata Meyrick, 1916 Autosticha shenae S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha shexianica S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha siccivora Meyrick, 1935 Autosticha sichunica Park & Wu, 2003 Autosticha silacea Bradley, 1962 Autosticha sinica Park & Wu, 2003 Autosticha solita Meyrick, 1923 Autosticha solomonensis Bradley, 1957 Autosticha spilochorda Meyrick, 1916 Autosticha squarrosa S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha stagmatopis Meyrick, 1923 Autosticha strenuella (Walker, 1864) Autosticha suwonensis Park & Wu, 2003 Autosticha symmetra (Turner, 1919) Autosticha taiwana Park & Wu, 2003 Autosticha tetrapeda Meyrick, 1908 Autosticha tetragonopa (Meyrick, 1935) Autosticha thermopis Meyrick, 1923 Autosticha tianmushana S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha triangulimaculella (Caradja, 1928) Autosticha truncicola Ueda, 1997 Autosticha valvidentata S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha valvifida S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha vicularis Meyrick, 1911 Autosticha wufengensis S.X.Wang, 2004 Autosticha xanthographa Meyrick, 1916

Some of these might belong in other genera of Autostichinae, such as the supposedly monotypic Stoeberhinus.

Former species

• Autosticha opaca (Meyrick, 1931)
• Autosticha philodema (Meyrick, 1938)

Footnotes

1. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004a), ABRS (2008)
2. Clarke (1986)
3. Pitkin & Jenkins (2004b)
4. Clarke (1986), ABRS (2008), Wikispecies (2011-APR-29)

References

Data related to Autosticha at Wikispecies

• Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) (2008): Australian Faunal Directory – Autosticha. Version of 2008-OCT-09. Retrieved 2011-OCT-17.
• Clarke, John Frederick Gates (1986): Pyralidae and Microlepidoptera of the Marquesas Archipelago. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 416: 1-485. PDF fulltext (214 MB!)
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004a): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Autosticha. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2011-OCT-17.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004b): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Semnolocha. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2011-OCT-17.
• Meyrick, 1922: VI: New Micro-Lepidoptera. Zoologische Mededeelingen VII: 80-89. Full article:
• Park, K.T. & C.S. Wu 2003: A revision of the genus Autosticha Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) in Eastern Asia. Insecta Koreana 20 (2): 195-225.
• Ueda, T., 1997: A Revision of the Genus Autosticha MEYRICK from Japan (Lepidoptera, Oecophoridae). Japanese journal of entomology 65(1): 108-126. Abstract and full article: .
• Wang, S.-X., 2004: A systematic study of Autosticha Meyrick from China, with descriptions of Twenty-Three new species (Lepidoptera: Autostichidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 29 (1): 38-62.