Glaucocharis barlowi Shaffer-Gaskin MS name

Taxonomy

Glaucocharis barlowi Shaffer-Gaskin MS name.

Gaskin (1985) described 16 new spp. but in the BMNH are several other Glaucocharis spp. labeled as holotypes [probably by Shaffer] but we cannot find any publication ref. associated with them. Until this is clarified we are treating those names as Shaffer-Gaskin MS names.

Description

As in all Glaucocharis spp. the FW is slightly bifalcate. It is pale blue-grey tinged with orange and with orange lines termenally towards the apex. There is a curving pale subtermenal line edged with grey and a dark grey antemedian line indented centrally towards the wing base. There are a few black marginal spots above the tornus and a black elongate discal spot. The HW is pale purple grey but some veins are slightly suffused with orange. The shape of the ante-median line serves to distinguish it.

References

• Gaskin, D. E. (1974) The genus Pareromene (Diptychophorini: Crambinae: Pyralidae: Lepidoptera) from Malaysia, Indonesia and New Guinea. J. Ent. (Ser. B), London 43: 185-208.
• Gaskin, D. E. (1975) The species of Pareromene Osthelder (Pyralidae: Crambinae: Diptychophorini) from the western South Pacific, with further notes on the New Zealand species. J. Ent. Ser. B, Taxonomy, 43, (2), 159-184.
• Gaskin, D. E. (1985) Morphology reclassification Australasian, Melanesian Polynesian Glaucocharis Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Crambinae, Diptychophorini). Australian Journal of Zoology Suppl. Ser. 33 (115): 1-75.
• Wang, P. Y., Gaskin, D. E. & Sung, S. M. (1989) Revision of the genus Glaucocharis Meyrick in the south-eastern Palaearctic, the Oriental Region and India, with descriptions of new species. Sinozoolopica 8: 297-396.