Cydia molybdana Karisch & Pinzari 2010, stat. rev.
Creators: name: Karisch, Timm
name: Pinzari, Mario
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Tortricidae
Cydia
Cydia molybdana

description: Cydia molybdana (CONSTANT, 1884), stat. rev.
Annales de la Société entomologique de France (6) 4: 214 f.; pl. 9, fig. 11 (Carpocapsa). [Holo] type  in MNHN. L. t.: Alps of Dauphiné.
= Cydia (Kenneliola) sammuti DIAKONOFF, 1986, syn. nov.
Nota lepidopterologica 9: 170 ff., fig. 1, 5.
Examined material:
France: [Holo] type : „ Carpocapsa MolybdanaMolybdana (Const) “, „ Carpocapsa molybdanamolybdana Const. Ann. Soc. ent. France 1884. p. 214 (Litt[oral] des Alpes Marit.).“, „1911 Coll. Lafaury Museum Paris “, „ Type “, „Genitalia J. Bourgogne, prép. No. 1854  “.
Italy: Toscana: Ansedonia (Grosseto), 5 m, 1  X.2002 (gen. slide PREPT 756, Pinzari), M. Pinzari (coll. Pinzari); Burano (Grosseto), 5 m, 1  20.IX.2001 (gen. slide PREPT 1141, Pinzari), 2  (gen. slides PREPT 759 PREPT 760, Pinzari) 5.IX.2002, A. Zilli (coll. Pinzari). Umbria: Orvieto (Terni), S. Faustino, 500 m, 1  1.IX.1944 (gen. slide PREPT 1091, Pinzari), Prola (coll. F. Hartig, Dip. Biol. An. e dell'Uomo Sede di Entomologia, Roma), 1  15.IX.1959 (gen. slide PREPT 1083, Pinzari), Prola (coll. Pinzari). Lazio: Tenuta di Castel Porziano (Roma), 0-85 m, 1  8.IX.1998 (gen. slide PREPT 449, Pinzari), 1  24.IX.1998, 3  (gen. slides PREPT 550 PREPT 560 PREPT 562, Pinzari), 1  (gen. slide PREPT 559, Pinzari), 9.IX.1999, 2  16.IX.1999 (gen. slides PREPT 621 PREPT 623, Pinzari), 1  23.IX.1999 (gen. slide PREPT 628, Pinzari), 3  (gen. slide PREPT 659, Pinzari) 1  13.IX.2000, 1  14.IX.2001 (gen. slide PREPT 647, Pinzari), 2  28.IX.2001, 1  27.VI.2002 (gen. slide PREPT 1140, Pinzari), 1  1.IX.2002 (gen. slide PREPT 1017, Pinzari), 2  2  5.IX.2002, 1  6.IX.2002 (gen. slide PREPT 883, Pinzari), 1  12.IX.2002, 1  (gen. slide PREPT 965, Pinzari) 3  17.IX.2002, 1  19.IX.2002, 1  1.X.2002, 1  4.X.2002 (gen. slide PREPT 884, Pinzari), 2  2  10.-15.IX.2003, 1  2  19.-25.IX.2003, 1  7-14.X.2003, 1  19.-25.X.2003 (gen. slide PREPT 1090, Pinzari), 1  8.-16.IX.2004, 1  6-13.X.2004 (gen. slide PREPT 1013, Pinzari), P. Maltzeff (coll. Pinzari); Parco Nazionale del Circeo (Latina), Quarto freddo, 0-541 m, 9 , 7 , 13.IX.1977 (1  gen. slide PREPT 1080, Pinzari), 1  5.IX.1978 (gen. slide PREPT 1081, Pinzari), S. Forestiero, F. Malucelli & Z. Zerunian (coll. Pinzari).
Croatia: Talmatien, Orebic, 1  (gen. slide 2593, Karisch) 10.-22.IX.1933, Dr. Züllich (ZSM).
Greece: Chios: Limnia, 15 m, 1  (gen. slide 5136, Sutter) 3.IX.[19]96, 1  (gen. slide 5135, Sutter) 05.IX.[19]96, 1  (gen. slide 5137, Sutter) 12.IX.[19]96, 1  (gen. slide 6297, Sutter), R. Sutter (Landessammlungen für Naturkunde Karlsruhe = LNK); Zakynthos: Limnikeriou, 45 m, 1  (gen. slide 2432, Karisch) 10.IX.2003, 1  (gen. slide 2438, Karisch) 15.IX.2003, 1  16.IX.2003, 1  1  18.IX.2003, 2  (1  gen. slide 2439, Karisch) 21.IX.2003, R. Sutter (LNK); südl. Vasilikos, 1  4.IX.1997, R. Sutter (LNK); Kreta: Psychro, 800 m, 1  (gen. slide 2592, Karisch) 21.VII.1962, H. Reisser (ZSM).
Turkey: Gebze (Izmit) 1  (gen. slide 2594, Karisch) 2.-3.VI.1969, F. Hahn (ZSM).
Description:
Pattern of the forewing very variable, often reduced with only some silvery strigulae from costa, an interrupted silver line in marginal field and weak pale brown suffusion. Speculum with silvery outer lines and black inner spots in a more or less brown field. Dorsal patch of the forewing obsolescent (fig. 3). Some specimens with a strongly constrasting coloration, a distinct pale dorsal patch and conspicuous pale brownish and silvery strigulae, were found among unicolorous material from the same place and date (fig. 2). In general coloration more brownish than in C. amplana.
Genitalia  (fig. 5): Tegumen slender, lateral part clasp-like, without apical prominence. Caudal angle of sacculus not prominent; ventral incision only slight and cucullus joint with gentle thickening. No horn above. Basal cavity longer and more rectangular; field with fewer and short bristles ventro-proximal of the cavity. Processus basalis broad. Cucullus longer, rounded ventroproximal. Aedeagus rather long and thin, angled and tapered to the apex, with minute thorns laterally.
Genitalia  (fig. 7): Lamella postvaginalis triangular, posteriorly broadened. Ductus bursae rather long and small, sclerotized. Bursa copulatrix long, with two signa. Subgenital sternite broad, lateral corners of hind margin triangular.
Larva:
Not yet described. It feeds in fruits of Quercus ilex and Q. suber (CONSTANT, 1884).
Distribution and habitats:
Documented for Southern France, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey (fig. 8), after DANILEVSKYI & KUZNETSOV (1968) also in Malta and Cyprus. Probably widely distributed, especially along the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea.
In Peninsular Italy from coasts to inland hilly areas with Mediterranean vegetation, so far recorded from sites with plenty of holm-oaks (Quercus ilex L.), but occasionally also deciduous ones, and often close to moist habitats such as coastal marshes and lagoons.
description: Published as part of Karisch, Timm & Pinzari, Mario, 2010, Cydia molybdana (C, 1884) - a valid species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae), pp. 463-470 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 60 (2) on pages 467-469, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.60.2.463-470, http://zenodo.org/record/4752421