PROC. ENTOMOL. SOC. WASH. 105(1). 2003, pp. 144-148 A NEW HOLCOCERA CLEMENS (LEPIDOPTERA: GELECHIOIDEA: COLEOPHORIDAE: HOLCOCERINI) ASSOCIATED WITH PINACEAE IN NORTH AMERICA David Adamski and Chris T. Maier (DA) Department of Systematic Biology-Entomology. National Museum ol' Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Washington. DC 20560-0168, U.S.A. (e-mail:
[email protected]); (CTM) Department of Entomology, Connecticut Agricul-tural Experiment Station, 123 Huntington Street. Box 1 106, New Haven, CT 06504, U.S.A. (e-mail: Chris. Maier@po. state. ct. us) Ahstnut. — Holcocera conculor. new species, is described from North America. The imago, wing venation, and male and female genitalia are illustrated. Adults have been reared from larvae collected from several species of Pinaceae. Key Words: Blastobasinae, conifer, pine Although the larvae of Blastobasinae (Coleophoridae) usually are considered scavengers, several species in the holcocer-ine genera Asaphocrita, Calosinia. and Hol-cocera apparently feed on living plants of the Pinaceae. For example, Asaphocritu aphidiella (Walsingham) (= H. confliiciitcl-la Dietz) has been reared from cuttings of Piniis rigida Miller, H. painirgella Heinrich from branches of Piinis cembroides Zuc-carini, and H. villella (Busck) (= H. oiigiisti Heinrich) from cones of Pseiidotsitga men-ziesii (Mirabel) Franco (= P. taxifolia (Lambert) Britton (Heinrich 1920). Larvae of Calosinia dianella Dietz ( = H. lepido-phaga Clarke) feed on male flowers and vegetative buds and on scale leaves of cones of Piiiiis elliottii Engelmann and P. palustris Miller (Clarke 1960). Further-more, the new species of Holcocera de-scribed herein has been collected on several species of Pinaceae. Among species in the tribe Blastobasini. Blastobasis floridella (Dietz) feeds on a cycad. attacking the fe-male cones of Za mi a integrifolia Alton (Za-miaceae) (Dietz 1910). Based on these as-sociations, the use of gymnosperms. espe-cially conifers, by larvae of Nearctic Blas-tobasinae may be considerably more widespread than is suggested by limited rearing information. Larvae of Holcocera concolor were col-lected from red pine, Pinus resinosa Alton, at several sites in New England by mem-bers of a survey team of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. The reared moths were sent to the Systematic Ento-mology Laboratory, USDA, National Mu-seum of Natural History, Smithsonian In-stitution, Washington, DC, (USNM) for identification. These specimens together with a large series of conspecific moths within the USNM, including several speci-mens on loan from the Canadian National Collection, Ottawa (CNC), were discovered to represent an undescribed species. The puipose of this publication is to inform North American foresters and researchers about a new conifer-feeding moth that pre-viously has been overlooked. Kornerup and Wanscher (1978) is used as a color standard for the description of the
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