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 
DBiodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan
Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 106, Taiwan
Biodiversity Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Takeshi Terada
Okayama Prefectural Environmental Conservation Foundation, Inc., Okayama 700, Japan.
Communicated by Y. Miles Zhang
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.
