A REVISION OF THE WORLD SPECIES OF THE GENUS ENDOTRICHA ZELLER (LEPIDOPTERA : PYRALIDAE) By PAUL E. S. WHALLEY CONTENTS Page SYNOPSIS ............ 397 INTRODUCTION ........... 397 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .......... 398 DEFINITION OF THE TRIBE ENDOTRICHINI ...... 398 Endotricha ZELLER, ITS SYNONYMY AND DEFINITION .... 398 AFFINITIES WITH OTHER GENERA IN THE ENDOTRICHINI .... 399 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION : 399 Ethiopian and Madagascan region ....... 401 Palaearctic region . . . . . . . . . .401 Oriental region . . . . . . . . . .401 Australasian-Pacific region ........ 402 DEFINITION OF TERMS USED ......... 403 KEY TO THE MALES OF THE GENUS ....... 403 TAXONOMIC SECTION, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES . . . 409 SPECIES DESCRIBED IN, OR SUBSEQUENTLY PLACED IN, Endotricha, WHICH HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED TO OTHER GENERA ..... 446 SPECIES DESCRIBED IN Endotricha WHICH ARE TRANSFERRED TO OTHER GENERA IN THIS WORK ......... 446 REFERENCES ........... 448 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . .451 SYNOPSIS The genus Endotricha Zeller (Lepid., Pyralidae) is redefined and its systematic position is discussed. A key to the males is given. Of the 151 species previously included in the genus, 67 are retained, 42 are synonymised, two species cannot be recognised from their descriptions, 40 are placed in other genera and 24 new species are described. An account of the distribution and affinites of the species is given. INTRODUCTION THE genus Endotricha was erected by Zeller (1847 : 593) for the common European species, Pyralis flammealis Schiffermuller. Subsequently many new species were described in it and other species transferred to it. Ragonot (1891 : 511) made it the type of a new subfamily, Endotrichiinae, which has now been reduced to a tribe of the Pyralinae (Whalley, 1961 : 733). Hampson (18966) revised the whole genus ; Shibuya (1928) revised the Formosan species and Inoue (1955) catalogued the Japa-nese species, but neither of the last two works were based on examination of the types. ENTOM. 13, II 21
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