Nuritamburia Koçak & Kemal, 2007 (Tortricidae: Tortricinae: Archipini)

[was Bradleyella Zimmerman, 1978]

According to Koçak & Kemal (2007), Bradleyella Zimmerman, 1978 (Insects of Hawaii 9:507) is an invalid name because it is a junior homonym of Bradleyella Krombein, 1963 [Hymenoptera], published in Nova Guinea (Zool.) 22:629. These authors proposed the replacement name Nuritamburia. Walsingham (1907) originally described three species of this group as Tortrix. Zimmerman (1978) later proposed the name Bradleyella for these plus two more species described by Swezey. There are five endemic Nuritamburia in Hawaii (and probably more).

Nuritamburia chlorocalla (Walsingham, 1907)
Nuritamburia metallurgica (Walsingham, 1907)
Nuritamburia phyllanthana (Swezey, 1940)
Nuritamburia semicinereana (Swezey, 1913)
Nuritamburia thoracina (Walsingham, 1907)
 

Bradleyella phyllanthana
Nuritamburia chlorocalla (Walsingham, 1907)
Islands: Hawaii
Hostplants: unknown
Status: endemic
Comments: none

Olaa, Hawaii 1896 (paratype)
Nuritamburia metallurgica (Walsingham, 1907)
Islands: Oahu, Molokai, Lanai
Hostplants: Phyllanthus?, Xylosma?
Status: endemic
Comments: Leaf-webbers. Possibly confused with B. phyllanthana. Parasitized by Diadega blackburni, Trathala flavoorbitalis (Ichneumonidae)

Tantalus, Oahu
Nuritamburia phyllanthana (Swezey, 1940)
Islands: Oahu
Hostplants: Phyllanthana sp.
Status: endemic
Comments: Leaf-webbers. Possibly confused with B. metallurgica.

Malamalama, Oahu 1925 (reared from Phyllanthus)
Nuritamburia semicinereana (Swezey, 1913)
Islands: Hawaii
Hostplants: unknown
Status: endemic
Comments: Known from one specimen (abdomen lost)

 

 

 

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Nuritamburia thoracina (Walsingham, 1907)
Islands: Kauai, Oahu
Hostplants: Perrottetia sp.
Status: endemic
Comments: Parasitized by Diadegma blackburni.

Kokee, Kauai 1919

Source(s):

Koçak, A. O. and M. Kemal. 2007. A replacement name for a Hawaiian moth (Tortricidae, Lepidoptera). Centre for Entomological Studies Miscellaneous Papers 105:3-4

Walsingham, L. 1907. Microlepidoptera. Pages 469-759 in D. Sharp, editor. Fauna Hawaiiensis. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Zimmerman EC. 1978. Insects of Hawaii, Vol.9.1 Microlepidoptera. The University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu