PROC. ENTOMOL. SOC. WASH. 106(2), 2004, pp. 288-297 A NEW SPECIES OF CRYPTASPASMA WALSINGHAM (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTRICIDAE: OLETHREUTINAE) FROM CENTRAL AMERICA, THE CARIBBEAN, AND SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES, WITH A CATALOG OF THE WORLD FAUNA OF MICROCORSINI John W. Brown and Richard L. Brown (JWB) Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI, Agriculture Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, c/o RO. Box 37012, MRC 168, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20013-7012, U.S.A. (e-mail:
[email protected]); (RLB) Mississippi Entomological Museum, Box 9775, Mississippi State, MS 39762, U.S.A. (e-mail:
[email protected]) Abstract. — Cryptaspasma bipenicilla, new species, is described and illustrated from Central America, the Caribbean, and southeastern United States. The earliest record of this species in the U.S. is a specimen collected in Pensacola, Florida, in 1962. We consider the species to now be established in the U.S. based on its widespread occurrence (on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from North Carolina to Texas) and the duration of its presence in the region. The new species has been reared from avocado seed {Persea americana L.; Lauraceae) in Puerto Rico and from fruits of aceitunillo {Belschmiedia pendula (Sw.); Lauraceae) in Cuba. Potential hosts in the U.S. include Persea borbonia (L.) (red bay) and P. palustris Sarg. (swamp bay). We also provide a taxonomic catalog of the world fauna of the tribe Microcorsini. Key Words: new species, new U.S. record, host plant, Caribbean, Central America, cat-alog The tribe Microcorsini includes a single gions of the world. The subgenera Cryptas-genus, Cryptaspasma Walsingham, and is pasma s. str. and Anaphorodes Diakonoff in considered to be one of the most primitive the Neotropical Region appear to be the sis-tribes of the subfamily Olethreutinae (Kuz-ter group of Microcorses Walsingham in Ja-netsov and Stekolnikov 1984, Horak and pan and eastern Russia. Metaspasma Dia-Brown 1991, Horak 1999). Diakonoff konoff in Africa and Madagascar appears to (1959) treated 26 species in the most recent be most closely related to AUobrachygonia revision of Cryptaspasma, dividing them Fernald in the Oriental and Australian re-among five subgenera. Subsequent authors gions (Horak and Brown 1991). (Kuznetsov 1970, Clarke 1976, Bradley Food plants of the group are poorly 1982, Diakonoff 1983, Razowski 1995, known. Cryptaspasma {Microcorses) tri-Horak et al. 1996) have described new spe-gonana Walsingham feeds in acorns of cies or proposed new combinations that Quercus mongolica Fisch. ex Ledeb. (Fa-have resulted in a total of 33 species in the gaceae) (Kuznetsov 1970, Kuznetsov and genus (see Appendix). Stekolnikov 1984); Cryptaspasma (Micro-Four of the five subgenera of Cryptas-coses) marginifasciata (Walsingham) has pasma occur in different zoogeographic re-been reared from acorns of Quercus sp. in
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