A Note on Microlepidoptera from South China (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae & Oecophoridae).

Abstract

A new species of Tortricidae injurious to Citrus: Cacoecia eucroca is described, based upon material from the Department of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural College, Canton, which was forwarded to the author by the Deutsches Entomologisches Institut. The taxonomy of Adoxophyes cyrtosema Meyrick, Cacoecia micaceana var. compacta Meyrick, and Psorosticha zizyphi (Stainton), also injurious to Citrus, is discussed.

Nomenclatural Acts

eucroca Diakonoff, 1958 (Cacoecia), spec. n.