(after Horak and Brown, 1991)
Introduction
Archipini (examples of male moths)
The Archipini (well over 500 species) are a very successful group with a worldwide distribution but with a relatively small representation in the Neotropical fauna. Archipine eggs are usually deposited in masses of imbricate rows, and the larvae of most species are polyphagous, at least in later instars, feeding in rolled leaves or a shelter. Rosaceae and Pinaceae are hosts for numerous Holarctic Archipini.
DIAGNOSIS
Diagnostically important characters are given in italics
Adult
male genitalia Archipini (explaining terms)
female genitalia Archipini (explaining terms)
Antenna in male minutely to strongly ciliate, often dentate and exceptionally bipectinate. Forewing often with costal fold in male; chorda rarely present. Male genitalia frequently with coremata (scent scales in an invaginated membranous fold or pocket on eighth sternite); uncus with brush of hairs below apex ; transtilla often bipartite and spined above ;valva usually with pulvinus, nearly always with a sclerotized sacculus along ventral edge, disc and dorsal margin often membranous and variously plicate. Female genitalia often with split colliculum, sometimes with cestum ; signum often dagger-shaped with a capitulum.
Larva
setal map (showing position of setae)
Anal fork usually present, crochets at least partly biordinal in last instar; D1 and SD1 on A9 on separate pinacula (except Capua Stephens); SD2 on pinaculum of SD1 on A1-A8; L group trisetose on A9; SV group on A1, 2, 7, 8 and 9 is 3:3:3:2:2 (2:2:2:2:2 in Ptycholoma lecheana Linnaeus and 3:2:1:1:1 in Pseudargyrotoza Obratztsov, which differs in several other points from the above larval diagnosis).
Pupa
Usually A2-A7 or A8 with two rows, A8 with one or two rows, and A9 only rarely with a well-developed row of dorsal spines; "dorsal pits" sometimes present; cremaster well-developed, often cylindrical and longer than wide, with eight strong hooked setae.
Genera including pests (in Europe and Asia)
Adoxophyes
Aphelia
Archips
Argyrotaenia
Batodes
Cacoecimorpha
Choristoneura
Clepsis
Epichoristodes
Epiphyas
Homona
Homonopsis
Lozotaenia
Pandemis
Ptycholoma
Syndemis