Calamotropha Zeller 1863
Creators: name: Kim, Yongnam
name: Qi, Mujie
name: Wang, Shuxia
name: Li, Houhun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Calamotropha

description: Calamotropha Zeller, 1863
Calamotropha Zeller, 1863: 8.
Type species: Tinea paludella Zeller, 1824.
Aurelianus Bleszynski, 1962: 2.
Type species: Chilo discellus Walker, 1863.
Myeza Walker, 1863: 190.
Type species: Myeza tonsalis Walker, 1863.
Diagnosis. Calamotropha is characterized in the male genitalia by the uncus with setae at base. It is similar to Pseudocatharylla Bleszynski, 1961 in appearance, and it can be distinguished in the male genitalia by the symmetrical valvae, and the costa without process at the base. In Pseudocatharylla, the valvae are asymmetrical in most species, and the costa has a process at the base.
Distribution. This genus is widely distributed in the Palearctic, Oriental, Ethiopian and Australian regions.
Key to species of Calamotropha in China
1. Forewing with medial fascia............................................................................ 2
Forewing without medial fascia........................................................................ 26
2. Forewing without medial stigma......................................................................... 3
Forewing with medial stigma........................................................................... 4
3. Terminal margin with six black dots evenly distributed (Fig.11)................................ C. duovirga sp. nov.
Terminal margin with two black dots distributed posteriorly (Fig. 4).................................... C. aureliella
4. Forewing with two stigmata............................................................................ 5
Forewing with one stigma.............................................................................. 9
5. Forewing without a fascia beyond subterminal fascia........................................................ 6
Forewing with a fascia beyond subterminal fascia........................................................... 7
6. Male genitalia with valva truncated at apex, vesica bearing a row of spine-like cornuti (Li & Li 2012: Fig. 2B)... C. abrupta
Male genitalia with valva rounded at apex, vesica bearing a spine-like cornutus (Li & Li 2012: Fig. 4C).......... C. melli
7. Male genitalia with vesica bearing a row of spiniform cornuti (Fig. 42)................................... C. okanoi
Male genitalia with vesica bearing one or two spine-like cornuti................................................ 8
8. Uncus longer than gnathos, vesica with a spine-like cornutus (Li & Li 2012: Fig. 4A)..................... C. formosella
Uncus shorter than gnathos, vesica with two spine-like cornuti (Bleszynski 1961: Fig. 111)................ C. obliterans
9. Terminal fascia without dark dots....................................................................... 10
Terminal fascia with dark dots.......................................................................... 13
10. Forewing with medial stigma at medial fascia............................................................. 11
Forewing with medial stigma on outer side of medial fascia.................................................. 12
11. Forewing with a fascia beyond subterminal fascia (Fig. 24)........................................ C. punctivenella
Forewing without a fascia beyond subterminal fascia (Fig. 16)..................................... C. melanosticta
12. Male genitalia with valva subrectangular (Fig. 43).................................................. C. paludella
Male genitalia with valva slightly narrower distally (Bleszynski 1961: Fig. 106)......................... C. fulvifusalis
13. Terminal margin with eight black dots evenly distributed (Fig. 13)....................................... C. franki
Terminal margin with black dots distributed only posteriorly................................................. 14
14. Valva in male genitalia subrectangular................................................................... 15
Valva in male genitalia not rectangular................................................................... 17
15. Aedeagus with a parrot beak sclerite at apex (Fig. 31)....................................... C. bleszynskii sp. nov.
Aedeagus without sclerite at apex....................................................................... 16
16. Valva with a dorsoapical lobe bearing an apical denticle, vesica with 13–14 cornuti (Fig. 45)........ C. parvispina sp. nov.
Valva with a short and wide apical sclerite, vesica with 19–20 cornuti (Fig. 48)......................... C. sienkiewiczi
17. Valva with a serrated dorsoapical process, or serrate on costa distally........................................... 18
Valva with costa smooth distally........................................................................ 23
18. Valva with a serrated dorsoapical process................................................................. 19
Valva with costa serrate distally........................................................................ 21
19. Gnathos with a triangular dorsal process at distal 1/3 (Fig. 41).................................... C. nigripunctella
Gnathos without a dorsal process....................................................................... 20
20. Ductus bursae in female genitalia not looped (Fig. 54)............................................. C. brevilinella
Ductus bursae in female genitalia looped anteriorly (Li & Li 2012: Fig. 4B).............................. C. josettae
21. Gnathos without process on dorsal margin, valva subparallel basally (Fig. 44)...................... C. parallela sp. nov.
Gnathos with a subtriangular process on dorsal margin, valva not parallel....................................... 22
22. Vesica of phallus with a large and a row of spiniform cornuti (Fig. 34)................................. C. dentatella
Vesica of phallus without cornutus (Li & Li 2012: Fig. 2A).......................................... C. duofurcata
23. Valva with costa convex basally or near base.............................................................. 24
Valva with costa convex medially....................................................................... 25
24. Valva with costa convex basally; uncus longer than gnathos, valva with two apical spines (Fig. 33)........ C. brevistrigella
Valva with costa convex near base; uncus shorter than gnathos, valva without apical spines (Fig. 40)... C. nigerifera sp. nov.
25. Gnathos without process at base, vesica with 3–4 cornuti (Fig. 38)....................................... C. latella
Gnathos with two spiniform processes laterally at base, vesica without cornutus (Fig. 49).................... C. sperlingi
26. Forewing without markings (Fig. 9)................................................................. C. doii
Forewing with markings.............................................................................. 27
27. Forewing with two medial stigmata (Fig. 25)....................................................... C. shichito
Forewing with one medial stigma....................................................................... 28
28. Terminal margin with two black dots only posteriorly (Fig. 28)....................................... C. unispinea
Terminal margin with seven spots evenly distributed........................................................ 33
29. Forewing without a longitudinal streak (Fig. 2).................................................... C. aequilata
Forewing with a longitudinal dim dark brown streak medially from base to basal 2/3 (Fig. 3).................. C. alcesta
description: Published as part of Kim, Yongnam, Qi, Mujie, Wang, Shuxia & Li, Houhun, 2023, Taxonomy of the genus Calamotropha Zeller (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Crambinae) from China, pp. 451-482 in Zootaxa 5297 (4) on pages 452-453, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5297.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8009006