Thursday, July 1, 2010

Xylodryadella



Xylodryadella Fletcher, 1940


Xylodryas Meyrick, 1925. Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (5–7): 129–160, 161–192, 193–224 [151].Type species: Xylodryas cryeranthes Meyrick, 1925 by monotypy.
Xylodryas Meyrick, 1925 [Cryptophasidae]. Fletcher, T. B., 1929, A list of generic names used for Microlepidoptera. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture of India,  11: 1-244 [237].
Xylodryadella Fletcher, 1940. New generic names for Microlepidoptera. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 52: 17–19, 109 [109] [replacement name for Xylodryas Meyrick with the same type species].
Xylodryadella Fletcher, 1940. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [88].
Xylodryadella Fletcher, 1940. Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex [accessed 1 May 2010].
Xylodryadella Fletcher, 1940. Edwards, E. D. (2003), Xyloryctinae. Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/XYLORYCTINAE [accessed 17 June 2010].

Original description, Meyrick 1925
Xylodryas, n. g.
Head with appressed scales, sidetufts loosely raised; ocelli inferior; tongue short, slender. Antennae 3/5, in ♂ filiform, shortly ciliated, basal joint stout, without pecten. Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint. thickened with dense appressed scales, terminal joint nearly as long as second, rather stout, acute. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Anterior tarsi dilated with dense rough scales; posterior tibiae clothed with rough scales above. Forewings with some rough scales on surface; 1b furcate, 2 from 2/3, 3 from angle, 3-5 approximated, 7 and 8 stalked, 8 to apex, 11 from beyond middle. Hindwings somewhat over 1, subovate, cilia 1/5; 3 and 4 short-stalked, 5 nearly parallel, somewhat nearer 4, 6 and 7 short-stalked.
Allied to Cryptophasa.

Other references

Xylodryadella (Cryptophasidae) for Xylodryas, Meyrick, Exot. Micr., iii, 151 (1925), type cryeranthes, Meyrick, nec Xylodryas, Turner, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austral., xlvi, 285 (1922) (Geometridae). (Fletcher, 1940).

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Distribution: Queensland. Irian Jaya. (Edwards, 2003).

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Xylodryadella cryeranthes (Meyrick, 1925)


Paluma, Qld. ANIC [AMO].

Xylodryas cryeranthes Meyrick, 1925, Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (5–7): 129–160, 161–192, 193–224 [152]. Holotype BMNH ♂, Oetakwa River, Irian Jaya.
Xylodryas cryeranthes M. [Cryptophasidae]. Fletcher, T. B., 1929, A list of generic names used for Microlepidoptera. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture of India, 11: 1-244 [237].
Xylodryadella cryeranthes Fletcher, 1940. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [88].
Xylodryadella cryeranthes Fletcher, 1940. Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex [accessed 1 May 2010].
Xylodryadella cryeranthes Fletcher, 1940. Edwards, E. D. (2003), Xyloryctinae. Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/XYLORYCTINAE [accessed 17 June 2010].

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Distribution: Queensland, Irian Jaya. (Edwards, 2003).

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