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Xerociris
Cockerell
Ciris Grote, 1863, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia,
2:65. A junior homonym of Ciris Kock, 1846. The
objective replacement name is Xerociris Cockerell 1904.
Xerociris Cockerell, 1904, Ent. News, 15:76.
An objective replacement name for Ciris Grote 1863, a
junior homonym of Ciris Koch 1846.
Xerociris is a monotypic genus with
the single known species wilsonii from Texas and Mexico. The larvae feed
on species of the plant family Vitaceae. The principle morphological features
of this genus are:
- Male antennae pectinate, female simple.
- Frontal process present. a triangular protuberance, protuberance
continued dorsally as a ridge continuing up to dorsal margin of frons
and midline of occiput; frons separated by distinct suture from occiput;
lower margin of front protuberance excavated and concave, filled with
thin scales tightly affixed to frons and hard to remove by brushing.
- Palpi with second segment about one and one-half times longer
than third; third segment oriented outwardly, giving apex of palpi a
downward curved appearance.
- Basal abdominal hair pencils and Stobbe's glands absent.
- Male eighth sternum u-shaped, without cephalad-lateral apodemes
and without an internal row of long hairs; eighth tergite a square to
rectangular, solid sclerite with a broad cephalad base.
- Male genitalia with lateral socii-like structures present
at the base of the uncus, each socus with a broad base and a projecting,
elongate triangular process; anal tube with a dorsal sclerotized plate.
- Juxta of male genitalia a heavily sclerotized, trapezoidal
single plate.
- Male clasper very large consisting of a large, ovate plate
with a hook on its lower margin.
- Shape of aedeagus a small swelling at the base tapering to
a very long tail.
- Female genitalia with a very small corpus bursa.
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