Systematics of the Chrysoxena Group of Genera Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Euliini: University of California Publications Entomology, Vol. 111

UC Publications in Entomology

by John W. Brown, Jerry A. Powell

The authors examine relationships within the Chrysoxena group of the tortricid tribe Euliini. They define 54 species among six Chrysoxena Meyrick; Vulpoxena Brown, new genus; Thoridia Brown, new genus; Dorithia Powell; Cuproxena Powell and Brown, new genus; and Bidorpitia Brown, new genus. Using cladistic methods, the authors develop a phylogenetic hypothesis for the genera and species groups of Dorithia and Cuproxena . A systematic treatment of the included species provides appropriate generic assignment for several previously misplaced species and describes many taxa as new.

130 pages, Paperback

First published December 4, 1991