Copromorphoidea

Peach fruit moth Carposina niponensis, photographed by Jean-Francois Landry.

Belongs within: Obtectomera.

The Copromorphoidea are a group of small moths characterised by the presence of long curved anterolateral processes on sternite 2. Vein M in the hind wing has three branches in Copromorphidae but one or two branches in Carposinidae (Nielsen & Common 1991).

Characters (from Nielsen & Common 1991): Small; head smooth scaled; ocelli present or absent; chaetosemata absent; scape without pecten; proboscis naked; maxillary palps small; labial palps usually prominent, recurved or porrect; fore wing often with raised scale-tufts. CuA of hind wing often with pecten; spurs 0-2-4. Larva with two L setae on prothorax, crochets uniordinal, usually in circle; tunnelling in flowers, bark, fruits and galls, sometimes between joined leaves. Pupa without dorsal spines, segments 5-7 movable in male, 5-6 in female, tip with group of hooked setae; not protruded at ecdysis.

<==Copromorphoidea
    |--Copromorphidae GE05
    |    |--Osidryas NC91
    |    |--Copromorpha RJ93
    |    |    |--C. fossilis RJ93
    |    |    `--C. lichenitis NC91
    |    |--Phycomorpha NC91
    |    |    |--P. metachrysa H04
    |    |    `--P. prasinochroa NC91
    |    `--Isonomeutis H04
    |         |--I. amauropa H04
    |         `--I. restincta H04
    `--Carposinidae NC91
         |--Bondia nigella NC91
         |--Paramorpha rhachias NC91
         |--Coscinoptycha improbana NC91
         |--Sosineura mimica C70
         `--Carposina NC91
              |--C. adreptella L27
              |--C. autologa NC91
              |--C. charaxias P27a
              |--C. exochana L27
              |--C. gonosemana P27b
              |--C. hyperlopha NC91
              |--C. maculosa Philpott 1927 P27a
              |--C. neurophorella NC91
              `--C. niponensis F04

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[C70] Common, I. F. B. 1970. Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). In: CSIRO. The Insects of Australia: A textbook for students and research workers pp. 765–866. Melbourne University Press.

[F04] Ferrar, P. 2004. Australian entomology: isolated, or in touch with the rest of the world? Australian Journal of Entomology 43 (3): 329–333.

[GE05] Grimaldi, D., & M. S. Engel. 2005. Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press: New York.

[H04] Hoare, R. 2004. The Duke’s Awful Dilemma (or, the DAD). Weta 27: 49–52.

[L27] Lindsay, S. 1927. A list of the Lepidoptera of Deans Bush, Riccarton, Canterbury. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 57: 693–696.

[NC91] Nielsen, E. S., & I. F. B. Common. 1991. Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). In: CSIRO. The Insects of Australia: A textbook for students and research workers 2^nd ed. vol. 2 pp. 817–915. Melbourne University Press: Carlton (Victoria).

[P27a] Philpott, A. 1927a. New Zealand Lepidoptera: notes and descriptions. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 57: 703–709.

[P27b] Philpott, A. 1927b. The maxillae in the Lepidoptera. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 57: 721–746.

[RJ93] Ross, A. J., & E. A. Jarzembowski. 1993. Arthropoda (Hexapoda; Insecta). In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 363–426. Chapman & Hall: London.

Last updated: 1 March 2021.