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Genus Capperia
Classification Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Pterophoroidea (Plume Moths)
Family Pterophoridae (Plume Moths)
Subfamily Pterophorinae (Five-lobed Plume Moths)
Tribe Oxyptilini
Genus Capperia
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes Capperia Tutt, 1905
Oxyptilus Meyrick, 1910 Numbers The genus Capperia includes three named species in America north of Mexico. (1)
Capperia ningoris (Walsingham, 1880)
Capperia evansi (McDunnough, 1923)
Capperia raptor (Meyrick, 1908) Identification See the identification key for Oxyptilini.
Three of the Capperia species in North America north of America are described, and there is at least one more species still undescribed. The species are externally very similar and identifiability on sight or from photographed dorsal views may not yet be fully worked out. C. ningoris was described from a western population in California, C. raptor from one in Colorado, C. evansi from a northeastern population including Trenton, Ontario.
Capperia adults have:
- a well developed outer margin on the forewing second lobe, as in Sphenarches, Geina, and Oxyptilus, and unlike in Dejongia, Megalorhipida, Buckleria, and Trichoptilus.
- a darker brown ground color, as in Geina tenuidactylus, and G. buscki, rather than a lighter, tawny brown ground color, as in Sphenarches, Geina periscelidactylus, G. sheppardi, and Oxyptilus delawaricus, and unlike the grayer ground color of Oxyptilus eleanerae.
- the abdominal pattern continued on segment 4, rather than interrupted as unmarked or obscurely marked brown on that segment as in Geina and Sphenarches species.
- the posterior parts of the mesothorax and tegulae whitish, with whitish longitudinal lines on the metathorax, as in Oxyptilus and Sphenarches anisodactylus, and unlike in Geina species and Sphenarches ontario.
- the forewing first lobe antemedial and postmedial lines approximately parallel, unlike in Oxyptilus.
Print References Adamczewski, S., 1951. On the systematics and origin of the generic group Oxyptilus Zeller (Lep. Alucitidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, 1(5): 345.
Meyrick, 1910. Genera Insectorum, 100: 6.
Tutt, J.W., 1905. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, 17: 37.
Tutt, J.W., 1907. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera, 5: 470. Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 10 August, 2013 - 10:13pm Additional contributions by treichardLast updated 24 July, 2024 - 6:00pm |
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