Review of the genus Macrobathra Meyrick, 1883 (Lepidoptera: Cosmopterigidae) in China
Author
Zhang, Di
College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
Author
Li, Houhun
College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China & College of Life and Geographic Sciences, Kashi University, Kashi 844000, China; Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Ecology of Pamirs Plateau, Kashi 844000, China
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-08-15
5330
2
227
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.3
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.3
1175-5326
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Macrobathra
Meyrick, 1883
Macrobathra
Meyrick, 1883: 425
(key).
Type
species:
Macrobathra chrysotoxa
Meyrick, 1886
, by subsequent designation (Meyrick,
in
Wytsman, 1922).
Leurozancla
Turner, 1933: 173
.
Type
species:
Leurozancla humilis
Turner, 1933
, by monotypy.
Diagnosis.
Macrobathra
is characterized by the labial palpus with the third segment longer than the second segment, and the antenna with the scape elongated; the lanceolate forewing with R
4
stalked with R
5
, the wider hindwing with Rs and M
1
parallel basally, farther apart distally; in the male genitalia by the symmetrical or rarely asymmetrical socius and the valva with dense setae distally; in the female genitalia by the accessory bursae arising from the ductus bursae, and the corpus bursae with paired signa.
Macrobathra
is similar to
Pancalia
Stephens,
1829
in the labial palpus with the third segment longer than the second segment, the fore- and hindwings having a same vein pattern, and the aedeagus not integrating with the anellus.
Macrobathra
differs from
Pancalia
in the forewing with a distinct fascia and without tubercular spots of shining metal luster.
Macrobathra
is geographically distributed in the Australian, the Ethiopian, the Palaearctic and the Oriental regions.
Host plants of the genus
Macrobathra
include
Acacia
spp.
of
Fabaceae
[Leguminosae] (
Meyrick 1922
),
Quercus serrata
Thunberg
and
Q. glauca
Thunberg
of
Fagaceae (
Moriuti 1973
)
,
Cunninghamia lanceolata
(Lamb.)
of
Taxodiaceae (
Qian & Liu 1997
)
.