Cryptophlebia rhynchias Meyrick 1905

Cryptophlebia rhynchias (Meyrick)

Platypeplus rhynchias Meyrick, 1905:586.—Clarke, 1955 [1955–1970]:273.

Argyroploce rhynchias (Meyrick).—Meyrick, 1929a:496.—Fletcher, 1932:31.—Swezey, 1942b:211.—Viette, 1949a:320.—Comstock, 1966:63.

Olethreutes rhynchias (Meyrick).—Williams, 1951:64.

Cryptophlebia rhynchias (Meyrick).—Bradley, 1952:687, fig. 6, pl. 24: fig. 6, pl. 25: figs. 6, 6a.—Clarke, 1958 [1955–1970]:327, pl. 162: figs. 3–3a.—Comstock, 1966:63.—Dugdale, 1977:67.

TYPE.—In the British Museum (Natural History).

TYPE-LOCALITY.—Ceylon, Yatitantota.

DISTRIBUTION.—Australia, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), India, Southern Mariana Islands, Mauritius, new Hebrides, Fiji, Samoa, Sudest Island, Society Islands, Austral Islands, and Marquesas Islands (?).

FOOD PLANTS.—Canavalia (fruits); Erythrina; Cajanus cajan (L.) Millspaugh (pigeon pea stem borer).

Bradley (1952) did not record rhynchias from the Marquesas Islands although Meyrick (1929a) did. We were on three of the Marquesas Islands, over a three months' period, and did not encounter rhynchias, which raises some doubt about Meyrick's record.

Cydia Hübner, 1825 [1816–1826]:375.

TYPE-SPECIES.—Phalaena pomonella L., 1758:538 [No. 270]; subsequent designation by Walsingham, 1897:125, 130.

In previous papers I have used Laspeyresia (sensu auct.) for congeners of the species described below. In a recent paper by Brown (1979:566) he has left no doubt about the proper usage of Cydia.

Cryptophlebia rhynchias is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1905. It is found from Mauritius, India, Sri Lanka, the southern Mariana Islands, the New Hebrides, Fiji, Samoa, Sudest Island, the Society Islands, the Austral Islands and the Marquesas Islands to Australia. The habitat consists of bamboo and secondary forests.