Wolfgang SPEIDEL & Wolfram MEY Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin CATALOGUE OF THE ORIENTAL ACENTROPINAE (LEPIDOPTERA, CRAMBIDAE) Speidel, W. & W. Mey, 1999. Catalogue of the Oriental Acentropinae (Lepidoptera, Cram-bidae).-Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 142: 125-142, figs. 1-3. [ISSN 0040-7496]. Published 22 September 1999. The catalogue contains all taxa of Acentropinae (= Nymphulinae) described from the Oriental Region with the references for every taxon. There are many new generic combinations for which the catalogue should be consulted. New synonyms: Neoschoenobia decoloralis Hampson, 1919 is a new junior synonym of Neoschoenobia testacealis Hampson, 1900; Cataclysta dohrni Hering, 1903 and Ephormotris oc-topis Meyrick, 1933 are new junior synonyms of Ephormotris dilucidalis Guérin-Méneville, [1832] 1829-1858 (Botys) comb. n. Oligostigma tripunctalis Snellen, 1876 is a junior primary homonym of Oligostigma tripunctalis Walker, [1866] 1865. This and the replacement name Aulacodes klimai Bryk, 1937 are new junior synonyms of Eoophyla parapomasalis Hampson, 1897 {Aulacodes) comb, n.; Oligostigma auropunctalisvzr. javanica Strand, 1914 is a new junior synonym of Eoophyla excisalis Snellen, 1901 {Oligostigma) comb, n.; Oligostigma hapilistale Strand, 1919 is a new junior synonym of Strepsinoma croesusalis Walker, 1859 {Cataclysta); Stenicula Snellen, 1901 and Micromania Swinhoe, 1894 (junior homonym of Micromania Christoph, 1893) are provisionally treated as new junior synonyms of Paracymoriza Warren, 1890; Paraponyx [sic] rugosalis Möschler, 1890 is a new junior synonym of Parapoynx fluctuos-alis Zeiler, 1852 {Nymphula). Corespondence: W. Speidel, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Museum für Naturkunde, In-validenstr. 43, D-101 15 Berlin. Germany. E-mail: wolfram=
[email protected] Key-words. -Pyraloidea; Crambidae; Acetropinae; Nymphulinae; catalogue; Oriental region The Acentropinae belong to the pyraloid family Crambidae. This is a large family with numerous species. Several monophyletic groups have been estab-lished within the Crambidae (Minet 1981) which are traditionally treated as subfamilies. The Acentropinae seem to be most closely related to the Schoenobiinae (Yoshiyasu 1985, Passoa 1988). So far 183 described species of Acentropinae are known from the Oriental Region. More species are recorded from the Neotrop-ical Region which is apparently the richest biogeo-graphical region with 247 named species (Munroe in Heppner 1995). Most species of Acentropinae have aquatic larvae. Only a very few species are known to have terrestrial larval instars (e.g. Nymphiculd) . The monophyly of the subfamily has been established by larval and pupal characters: The setae SI to S3 of the larval head are in a line (Passoa 1988) and the stigma-ta of abdominal segments 2 to 4 of the pupa are raised and chimney-like (Speidel 1981, Passoa 1988). The high biodiversity, especially in the tropics, consequently necessitates the production of checklists or catalogues. Checklists provide a synopsis of the species occurring in a certain region and give the cur-rent state of knowledge including the results of mod-ern taxonomie work. Secondly, a checklist is a neces-sary step in consolidating previous knowledge in order to allow research on the taxonomie group in question. It is a prerequisite to all future revisions. Lists of Lepidoptera including the Acentropinae have been available only for more limited geographical ar-eas of the Oriental Region, e.g. Taiwan (Heppner & Inoue 1992), Thailand (Yoshiyasu 1987) and Nepal (Robinson et al. 1995). This is the first modern checklist of all Acentropi-nae known to occur in the Oriental Biogeographical Region as a whole. The geographical range adopted for the Oriental Region is shown in the map (fig. 1). In the Southeast, the boundaries are between Sulawesi and the Moluc-cas, and between Sumbawa and Flores. In the West, the region extends along the southern slopes of the Himalayas and Karakorum as far as Nuristan in Af-125
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