Tetracona

Tetracona is a genus of snout moths in the subfamily Spilomelinae of the family Crambidae. The genus was described by Edward Meyrick in 1884 with Aediodes amathealis Walker, 1859 as type species.[2]:307

Tetracona
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Crambidae
Subfamily:
Spilomelinae
Tribe:
Agroterini
Genus:
Tetracona

The genus was long treated as a synonym of Agrotera, but a recent taxonomic revision of Agrotera resulted in the re-instatement of Tetracona.[3]

The genus is placed in the tribe Agroterini based on the structure of the uncus, featuring a broad base and simple chaetae on the uncus head, a well-developed medial process of the gnathos, the rectangular, elongate valvae with parallel costal and ventral margins, and the notably elongate saccus (at least in T. amathealis).[4]

The genus with its three species is known from Australia, New Guinea and China.[5][6]

The caterpillars of Tetracona amathealis are recorded from Eucalyptus tereticornis in the Myrtaceae.[5]

Species

References
  1. Nuss, Matthias; Landry, Bernard; Mally, Richard; Vegliante, Francesca; Tränkner, Andreas; Bauer, Franziska; Hayden, James; Segerer, Andreas; Schouten, Rob; Li, Houhun; Trofimova, Tatiana; Solis, M. Alma; De Prins, Jurate; Speidel, Wolfgang (2003–2020). "Global Information System on Pyraloidea (GlobIZ)". www.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  2. Meyrick, Edward (1884). "On the classification of the Australian Pyralidina". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1884: 61–80, 277–350.
  3. Chen, Kai; Horak, Marianne; Du, Xicui; Zhang, Dandan (2017). "Revision of the Australian species of Agrotera Schrank (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae: Spilomelinae)". Zootaxa. 4362 (2): 213–224. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4362.2.2.
  4. Mally, Richard; Hayden, James E.; Neinhuis, Christoph; Jordal, Bjarte H.; Nuss, Matthias (2019). "The phylogenetic systematics of Spilomelinae and Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) inferred from DNA and morphology" (PDF). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 77 (1): 141–204. doi:10.26049/ASP77-1-2019-07. ISSN 1863-7221.
  5. "Agrotera amathealis (Walker, 1859)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  6. Jie, Lu-Lan; Yang, Jing-Bo; Li, Wei-Chun (2020). "First record of the genus Tetracona Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Crambidae) from China, with description of a new species". ZooKeys. 941: 101–105. doi:10.3897/zookeys.941.49559.


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