Glaucocharis aenigmella Shaffer-Gaskin MS name

Taxonomy

Glaucocharis aenigmella Shaffer-Gaskin MS name.

Gaskin (1985) described 16 new spp. but in the BMNH are several other Glaucocharis spp. labeled as holotypes [probably by Shaffer] but we cannot find any publication ref. associated with them. Until this is clarified we are treating those names as Shaffer-Gaskin MS names.

Description

As in all Glaucocharis spp. the FW is slightly falcate and intricately patterned in orange and black with paler and darker areas. The HW is mainly white but  with a black marginal line. The fasciation differs subtly between the Glaucocharis spp.

References

• Gaskin, D.E. (1974) The genus Pareromene (Diptychophorini: Crambinae: Pyralidae: Lepidoptera) from Malaysia, Indonesia and New Guinea. J. Ent. (Ser. B), London 43: 185-208.
• Gaskin, D.E. (1975) The species of Pareromene Osthelder (Pyralidae: Crambinae: Diptychophorini) from the western South Pacific, with further notes on the New Zealand species. J. Ent. Ser. B, Taxonomy, 43, (2), 159–184.
• Gaskin, D.E. (1984) The genus Roxita Bleszynski (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Crambinae): New species and combinations and a reappraisal of its relationships Tidjschr. V. Ent. 127: 17-31.
• Wang, P.Y., Gaskin, D.E. & Sung, S.M. (1989) Revision of the genus Glaucocharis Meyrick in the south-eastern Palaearctic, the Oriental Region and India, with descriptions of new species. Sinozoolopica 8: 297-396.