Glauconoe deductalis Walker

Taxonomy

The holotype of Botys deductalis Walker, 1859: 659 is from Sri Lanka, by original designation.

It is the TS of Glauconoe Warren, 1892: 296–297 (gen. rev.) Maes 1994: 165.

• syn. Botys ausonialis Snellen, 1890: 578; TL, Sikkim, male lectotype is in the BMNH. As syn. in Shaffer et al. (1996);
• syn. Glauconoe fuscescens Warren, 1892 TL, Sumatra As syn. in Shaffer et al. (1996);
• syn. Phryganodes murinus Rothschild, 1915, TL Irian Jaya (Snow Mountains) As syn. in Shaffer et al. (1996);
• syn. Crocidophora kosemponialis Strand, 1918 TL Taiwan, Syn. n. (Wang & Speidel, 2000). May be a ssp.

Comb. rev. to Glauconoe Warren, 1892 (Shaffer et al., 1996).

Description

Specimens have relatively broad poorly marked FW and a distinct post median line on the HW. The holotype is a rather dull brownish grey but the colour ranges from a greyish pink to a dark shiny brown (syn. G. kosemponialis). See Wang & Speidel (2000). Similar morphotypes exist in Japan. Tominaga’s reared specimen from the Ryuku Is are much greyer. Some ‘deductalis’ specimens are a pale shiny mushroom pink ranging to a pale pinkish grey and could be misidentified G. ciniferalis. Some ‘deductalis’ specimens have a rather narrower pointed FW with more pronounced markings and c-shaped stigma and may not be conspecific. See Glauconoe ciniferalis (Walker, 1864) and Torqueola ophiceralis Walker, ([1866]) 1865).

Life History

Larvae reported as feeding on Marsdenia spp. inc. M. tinctoria (Apocynaceae). (Tominaga, 2001: 269)

References

• Walker ([1866 Jan 13]1865) List Spec Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. 34, (Suppl. 4): 1121-1533.
• Snellen, P. C. T. (1890) A catalogue of the Pyralidina of Sikkim collected by Henry J. Elwes and the late Otto Möller. Trans ent. Soc Lond: 557-647, 2 pl.
• Rothchild, L.W. (1916) Lepidoptera of the British Ornithological Union and Wollaston Expedition in the Snow Mountains, southern Dutch New Guinea. Rep. B. O. U. exp. 2 (15): 1-162.
• Strand, E. (1918): in H. Sauter’s Formosa-Ausbeute: Pyralididae, Subfam. Pyraustinae., Dt. ent. Z., Iris, Dresden, 32, (1/2): 33-91.
• Shaffer, M. & Nielsen, E.S. (1996) In Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangji, R.V. (Eds.) Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia, 66: 161- 163, CSIRO, Australia.
• Wang, HsiauYue. & Speidel, W (2000) Guide Book to Insects in Taiwan (19). Pyraloidea (Pyralidae, Crambidae). Shu Shin Books, Taipei, Taiwan: pp. 295.
• Tominaga, S., (2001) Larva of Glauconoe deductalis Walker Crambidae, Pyraustinae feeding on Marsdenia (Apocynaceae). Japan Heterocerists' J. 25 July; 214: 257-272.
• Walker, F. (1859d [May 10]) Pyralides, In; List Spec. Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. Ser. 4, 18: 509-798.
• Warren, W. (1892b) XLV Descriptions of new genera and species of Pyralidae contained in the B.M. Coll. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 6, (9) (52) 12: 294-301.