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The Goat Moths (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) of Papua Indonesia
by Rob de Vos
Zeuzera roricyanea Walker, 1862
neuropunctata Gaede, 1933
Distribution
STATUS: One of the most common Zeuzera species in the lowlands of New Guinea which occassionally is a pest in coffee plantages, but also in tea, cotton, cocoa, kapok, coca and teak. In lowland as well as mountainous areas. Outside New Guinea the even more abundant and similar Zeuzera coffeae Nietner, 1861 occurs, also a species causing severe pests in coffee plantages.This species is easily distinguished from Zeuzera reticulata by the hindwings which lack the diffuse speckles in roricyanea. The forewings have more finer black spots than in reticulata and the stripes are diffuse (in reticulata more distinct). Yakovlev (2011b) places this species in the genus Neurozerra Yakovlev, 2011. For the time being this is not followed here because some other specialists have comments on his splitting the genus Zeuzera into 7 (new) genera, until more clearity has been presented.
PAPUA LOCALITIES: Batanta Island; Roon Island: Yende; New Guinea: Araucaria Camp, Bernhard Camp, Dotir river (Wandammen), Fyria River (Buruway), Hollandia (Jayapura), Klamono Oilfields, Kouh, Landikma, Lelambo, Mokwam, Prauwenkamp (Idenburg River), Sentani, Teminaboean, Uskwar, Waris, Warkapi. Details in gazetteer.
EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: Moluccas, Papua New Guinea.
DATA SOURCES: RMNH, Daawia Suhartawan.
Literatuur
Schoorl, J.W., 1990. A phylogenetic study on Cossidae (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia) based on external adult morphology. Zoölogische Verhandelingen 263: 1-295.
Yakovlev, R.V., 2011b. Catalogue of the Family Cossidae of the Old World (Lepidoptera). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 66: 1-129.
