Euplocamus Latreille 1809
Creators: name: Huang, Guo-Hua
name: Hirowatari, Toshiya
name: Wang, Min
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Tineidae
Euplocamus

description: Euplocamus Latreille, 1809
Euplocamus Latreille, 1809, Gen. Crust. Ins. 4: 223. Type-species: Tinea guttella Fabricius, 1781, Species Insect. 2: 509; by subsequent designation by Latreille, 1810, Consid. gén. Ordre nat. Anim.: 441.
Euplocampus; Rafinesque, 1815, Analyse Nat.: 129; missp.
Trichocheilia Hübner, 1818, Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. 1: 25, [34].
Trichocheilia Hübner, 1822, Syst.-alphab. Verz. 52: 66–80. Type-species: Phalaena anthracinalis Scopoli, 1763, Ent. Carniolica: 239, fig. 607; by subsequent designation by Bradley, 1966, Entomologist's Gaz. 17: 216.
Nycterina Meigen, 1832, Syst. Beschr. eur. Schmett. 3: 263. Type-species: Phalaena anthracinalis Scopoli, 1763, Ent. Carniolica: 239, fig. 607; by subsequent designation by Fletcher, 1929, Mem. Dep. Agric. India (Ent.) 11: 149.
Trichocheila; Bradley, 1966, Entomologist's Gaz. 17: 216; missp.
Epichysia Hübner, 1825, Verz. bekannt. Schmett.: 404. Type-species: Tinea anthracinalis Latreille, 1763, Ankündung syst. Werkes. Schmett. Wienergegend: 319; by subsequent designation by Fletcher, 1929, Mem. Dep. Agric. India (Ent.) 11: 80.
Description. Head: Vertex and pronotum roughly clothed with yellowish or blackish brown scales. Antenna about 0.6 × length of forewing; scape without pecten. Maxillary palpus very short. Labial palpus developed, without strong lateral bristles on the second segment. Thorax: Dorsal surface and tegula covered with blackish brown scales. Wings with similar pattern, moderately elongate, rounded apically. Forewing length 6.0–12.0 mm, all veins present; R5 ending at apex; hindwing with all veins present and separated basally, crossvein M- CuA present, M branched in discal cell. Abdomen: Male genitalia with uncus lobed, each lobe distinct and strongly sclerotized; vinculum broad; gnathos consisting of a pair of arms; juxta indistinct; valva broad or tapered basally and rounded aoically, with raised spinules dorsally and covered with slender bristles on inner surface; aedeagus cylindrical, inflated basally, without cornuti. Female genitalia with corpus bursae small, without signum; ovipositor long, with ventral rods, and papilla analis not swollen.
Remarks. Petersen (1958) treated Euplocamus as the only genus in Euplocaminae. He reported that larvae are of the “crawler-type,” living in decaying wood and on mushrooms. Based on the fauna of Japan, Moriuti (1982) placed Euplocamus hierophanta Meyrick, 1916 in Euplocaminae; the species later was synonymized with Pelecystola strigosa (Moore) by Robinson & Tuck (1996). Robinson (2001) included 11 species in the genus. We recognize 10 species after transferring Euplocamus tanylopha Meyrick, 1932 to Psecadioides. Below we redescribe Euplocamus melanchrodes Meyrick, 1916 and present the first record from China.
description: Published as part of Huang, Guo-Hua, Hirowatari, Toshiya & Wang, Min, 2010, A review of the China-Himalayan members of the subfamily Euplocaminae (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Tineidae), pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 2511 on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.196055