Archips occidentalis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tortricoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Superfamilia: Tortricoidea

Familia: Tortricidae
Subfamilia: Tortricinae
Tribus: Archipini
Genus: Archips
Species: Archips occidentalis

Name

Archips occidentalis (Walsingham, 1891)

Type locality: Gambia, Bathurst.

Typus: Lectotype male ♂, BMNH GS 4761 BM, XII-1884 [?], legit Gilbert T. Carter ("5, CARTER 1886, No. 88"); Paralectotype female ♀, BMNH GS 4719 BM, 1885 [?], legit Gilbert T. Carter ("CARTER 1885, No. 278"). [Note: Originally Syntypes "six specimens" unsexed on "XI-XII", appears to mean in various years of late 1880s].

CURRENT STATUS: **Contested** See Choristoneura occidentalis (Walsingham, 1891)

Synonyms

• Cacoecia occidentalis Walsingham, 1891: 64. Protonym.
• Archips occidentalis (Walsingham, 1891); after synonymy of Cacoecia under Archips in Fernald, 1908: 14; explicit in Brown, 2007, but as senior synonym of recombined Archips heliaspis (Meyrick, 1909)
• Choristoneura occidentalis (Walsingham, 1891); Razowski, 2008: 247. Comb. nov. [Note: This formation results a senior homonym of Choristoneura occidentalis Freeman, 1967 (a distinct taxon from USA; where the replacement name Choristoneura freemani Razowski, 2008 was proposed in Razowski, 2008: 246). However this has been subsequently contested, see commentary in Gilligan & Brown, 2014 accepting the revised nomenclature as valid (with reservation), but followed by explicit rejection in Brunet, et al. 2016: 9–11 (yet without justification or specification of any alternative generic combination for Walsingham's species, nor any recognition of nomenclatural consequences for now uncertain affinity with the previously proposed junior synyonym Choristoneura heliaspis (Meyrick, 1909))].

References

• Brown, J.W. 2005. World Catalogue of Insects. Volume 5: Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) 1–741. Apollo Books. Reference page. 
• Gilligan, T.M. & Brown, J.W. 2014. A new name for the western spruce budworm (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)? The Canadian Entomologist 146: 583–589. DOI: 10.4039/tce.2014.17 Reference page. 
• Fernald, M.L. 1908. Notes on some plants of northeastern America (continued). Rhodora 10(113): 84–95. JSTOR BHL Reference page. 
• Freeman, H.A., 1967. On coniferophagous species of Choristoneura (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in North America: I. Some new forms of Choristoneura allied to C. fumiferana. The Canadian Entomologist 99(5): 449–455.PDF Reference page. 
• Meyrick, E., 1909d. New South African Micro-Lepidoptera. Annals of the South African Museum 5: 349–379. BHL Reference page. 
• Razowski, J, 2008. Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) from South Africa. 6: Choristoneura Hübner and Procrica Diakonoff. Polish Journal of Entomology 77(3): 245–254. PDF. Reference page. 
• Razowski, J. & Krüger, M. 2013. An illustrated catalogue of the type specimens of Tortricidae in the Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). SHILAP revista de lepidopterologia 41(162): 213–240. PDF. Reference page. 
• Walsingham, T. 1891. African Micro-Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1891: 63–132. BHL Reference page. 

Links

• BHL bibliography
• Archips occidentalis – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Archips occidentalis.
• ION

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