Specimens of a recently described pterophorid, Adaina ipomoeae Bigot and Etienne, 2009 (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae), were identified from Grenada, Dominican Republic, and Florida. All are new country records

Gielis, Cees

Matthews, Deborah L.

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CENTER FOR SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY, INC., Gainesville, FLAdaina ipomoeae Bigot and Etienne, 2009, new records for Floridaand the West Indies (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)Deborah L. MatthewsMcGuire Center for Lepidoptera and BiodiversityFlorida Museum of Natural HistoryUniversity of FloridaP.O. Box 112710, Gainesville FL 32611-2710, USACees GielisMr. Haafkensstraat 36NL-4128 CJ LexmondTHE NETHERLANDSDate of Issue: March 11, 2011INSECTAMUNDI A Journal of World Insect Systematics0156Deborah L. Matthews and Cees GielisAdaina ipomoeae Bigot and Etienne, 2009, new records for Florida and the WestIndies (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)Insecta Mundi 0156: 1-3Published in 2011 byCenter for Systematic Entomology, Inc.P. O. Box 141874Gainesville, FL 32614-1874 U. S. A.http://www.centerforsystematicentomology.org/Insecta Mundi is a journal primarily devoted to insect systematics, but articles can be published onany non-marine arthropod. 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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CreativeCommons, Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, dis-tribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/10156: 1-3 2011Adaina ipomoeae Bigot and Etienne, 2009, new records for Floridaand the West Indies (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)Deborah L. MatthewsMcGuire Center for Lepidoptera and BiodiversityFlorida Museum of Natural HistoryUniversity of FloridaP.O. Box 112710, Gainesville FL 32611-2710, USAmothnut@hotmail.comCees GielisMr. Haafkensstraat 36NL-4128 CJ LexmondTHE NETHERLANDSC.Gielis@net.HCC.nlAbstract. Specimens of a recently described pterophorid, Adaina ipomoeae Bigot and Etienne, 2009 (Lepidoptera:Pterophoridae), were identified from Grenada, Dominican Republic, and Florida.  All are new country records.Key Words. Pterophorinae, plume moth, Convolvulaceae, Grenada, Dominican Republic.IntroductionBigot and Etienne (2009) recently published the results of collecting and rearing of Pterophoridaefrom Guadeloupe Island.  Eleven plume moth species were reported from the island, including Adainaipomoeae Bigot and Etienne, 2009, collected 6 June 2006 and associated with Ipomoea tiliacea (Wild)Choisy and Merremia umbellata (L.) H. Hall [Convolvulaceae].  Gielis (2011) reported the distribution ofA. ipomoeae to include Cuba, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico as well as Guadeloupe.  Label data were providedfor illustrated specimens (adult, male and female genitalia) from Patillas, Puerto Rico; Moneague, Ja-maica; and Pinar Rio, Sierra Rosario, Cuba.  To these records we presently add specimens from theDominican Republic, Grenada, and Florida.Materials and MethodsSpecimens examined (6 males, 4 females) are deposited in the first author’s collection [DLMC] andthe Florida State Collection of Arthropods [FSCA] at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity,Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville.  Identifications are based on comparison of male andfemale genitalia with illustrations by Bigot and Etienne (2009).  Genitalia slides were prepared followingstandard techniques and mounted in Canada Balsam or Euparal.  Male genitalia were photographed atthe Florida Museum of Natural History with a Zeiss Axiophot transmitted light microscope (40× objec-tive) using Axiocam 3.1 camera software and KS 400 3.0 digital imaging system.  Specimens are pinnedexcept for the malaise trap collected material from Grenada that is stored in vials containing 70% isopro-pyl alcohol.Material ExaminedDOMINICAN REP.: Prov. Barahona, nr. Filipinas, Larimar Mine 20.vi.1992 R. Woodruff, P. Skelley,F. Skillman (1 F) [FSCA]; same data 29.vi.1992 (1 F, slide DM 677) [FSCA]; same data, 30.vi.1992 R.Woodruff, P. Skelley, F. Skillman (1 M, slide DM 672) [DLMC]; same data 5.vii.1992 (1 F) [DLMC];GRENADA: Par. St. Andrews, Mirabeau 2-6.iii.1990 R.E. Woodruff et al. Malaise Trap (3 M, slides DM890, 891, 897; 1 F, slide DM 898) [FSCA]; same locality, 29.xi.1989 A. Thomas & J. Telesford, MalaiseTrap (1 M, slide DM 892) [FSCA]; USA: FLORIDA: Broward Co. Hollywood 29.x.1972 B. Mather # 071936(1 M, slide DM 470) [DLMC].2 • INSECTA MUNDI 0156, March 2011 MATTHEWS AND GIELISResults and DiscussionThis species is known from Florida by a singlespecimen collected by Bryant Mather in 1972.Mather (pers. comm., circa 1994) recalled collect-ing the specimen at light on a hotel wall whileattending a structural materials conference inHollywood.  We include an image of this adult andlabels (Fig. 1), and the male genitalia (Fig. 2).  TheFlorida specimen is currently held in the firstauthor’s collection [DLMC] and represents a newspecies record for the Florida fauna, adding to the32 previously reported species (Matthews 1989,Matthews et al. 1990).  Adaina ipomoeae is alsonewly reported for the Dominican Republic as wellas Grenada where seven species of Pterophoridaewere reported by Woodruff et al. (1998).Adults have been collected during January,May, June, August, October, and November at thevarious localities but without enough data to de-termine seasonality or broods.  While other spe-cies of Convolvulaceae may be suitable hosts, oneof the two known hostplants, Merremia umbellata(hogvine) a native throughout the West Indies alsooccurs in South Florida (Collier, Dade, Monroe counties) as an exotic (Acevedo-Rodríguez and Strong2010; USDA 2010).  Additional surveys in South Florida are necessary to determine if this is an estab-lished species or a stray.  This species should also be examined as a potential pest on sweet potato,Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.  Although the immature stages were not described, adults were apparentlyreared by Bigot and Etienne (2009) along with Hellinsia devriesi (B. Landry and Gielis), and Ochyroticafasciata Walsingham that are also associated with the same host plants that occur on Guadeloupe Island.Pterophoridae from Florida that also feed on Convolvulaceae include Emmelina monodactyla (Linnaeus),E. buscki (Barnes and Lindsey), and P. belfragei (Fish) (Matthews and Lott 2005, Matthews 2006).Figure 1. Adaina ipomoeae adult male from Florida, specimen labels on right.Figure 2.  Male genitalia of Adaina ipomoeae, aedeaguson right, slide DM 470.INSECTA MUNDI 0156, March 2011 • 3 NEW RECORDS FOR ADAINA IPOMOEAEAcknowledgmentsWe thank Paul Skelley and Robert E. Woodruff, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, for providingmaterial from Grenada and the Dominican Republic.  The late Bryant Mather is likewise acknowledgedfor making his collection available to the first author.  Terry A. Lott assisted with photography of thegenitalia and reviewed the text.  We also thank Terhune S. Dickel and Delano S. Lewis, for comments onthe manuscript.Literature CitedAcevedo-Rodríguez, P., and M.T. Strong.  2010. Convolvulaceae. Flora of the West Indies, Catalogueof the Seed Plants of the West Indies.  Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.  http://botany.si.edu/antilles/WestIndies/results.cfm?formid=ci (Last accessed in December 2010)Bigot, L., and J. Etienne 2009. Les Pterophoridae de L’île de la Guadeloupe (Lepidoptera). Bulletin de laSociété Entomologique de France 114(4): 463-467.Gielis, C. 2011 (in press). Review of the neotropical species of the family Pterophoridae, part II:Pterophorinae (Oidaematophorini, Pterophorini) (Lepidoptera). Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden.Matthews, D. L. 1989. The plume moths of Florida (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae). Unpublished MSThesis. University of Florida; Gainesville. 347 p.Matthews, D. L. 2006. Larvae and Pupae of Nearctic Pterophoridae: A synopsis of life histories, mor-phology, and taxonomy (Lepidoptera: Pterophoroidea). Unpublished PhD Thesis. University of Florida;Gainesville. 959 p.Matthews, D. L., D. H. Habeck, and D. W. Hall. 1990. Annotated checklist of the Pterophoridae(Lepidoptera) of Florida including larval food plant records. Florida Entomologist 73: 613-621.Matthews, D.L., and T. A. Lott. 2005. Larval Hostplants of the Pterophoridae (Lepidoptera:Pterophoroidea). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 76: 1-324.USDA. 2010. Plants Database  http://plants.usda.gov/ (Last accessed December 2010).Woodruff, R. E., B. M. Beck, P.E. Skelley, C. Y. L. Schotman, and M. C. Thomas 1998. Checklistand bibliography of the insects of Grenada and the Grenadines.  Center  for Systematic Entomology,Gainesville, Florida. Memoir 2: 1-286.Received January 20, 2011; Accepted February 2, 2011.4 • INSECTA MUNDI 0156, March 2011 MATTHEWS AND GIELIS

Adaina ipomoeae Bigot and Etienne, 2009, new records for Florida and the West Indies (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)

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