The Newly Recorded Fern-spore Feeding Moths in the Genus Calicotis, Meyrick 1889 (Lepidoptera: Stathmopodidae) from Taiwan, with Notes on Life History of Three Species

Zong-Yu Shen; Takeshi Terada; Yu-Feng Hsu

doi:10.6620/ZS.2022.61-63

The Newly Recorded Fern-spore Feeding Moths in the Genus Calicotis, Meyrick 1889 (Lepidoptera: Stathmopodidae) from Taiwan, with Notes on Life History of Three Species

Zool Stud. 2022 Nov 25:61:e63. doi: 10.6620/ZS.2022.61-63. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Zong-Yu Shen^{1

2

3}, Takeshi Terada⁴, Yu-Feng Hsu²

Affiliations

¹ Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan. E-mail: jeffshannnu2014mouse@gmail.com (Shen).
² Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 106, Taiwan. E-mail: t43018@ntnu.edu.tw (Hsu).
³ Biodiversity Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁴ Okayama Prefectural Environmental Conservation Foundation, Inc., Okayama 700, Japan. E-mail: takeshi6262@hotmail.com (Terada).

Abstract

Three newly recorded species of the genus Calicotis, Meyrick 1889 are reported from Taiwan: C. attiei (Guillermet, 2011), C. rotundinidus Terada, 2016, and C. exclamationis Terada, 2016. C. biserraticola Terada, 2016 is treated as a junior subjective synonym for C. attiei based on both morphological and molecular data. The life history of these three species is presented as well as the first observation of fern-feeding stathmopodid eggs in the world.

Keywords: Cuprininae; Ferns; Immature biology; Spore-feeding; Taiwan.