Taxonomic study of the genus Atkinsonia Stainton, 1859 (Lepidoptera, Stathmopodidae) in China, with descriptions of two new species
Author
Wang, Shuxia
Author
Guan, Wei
Author
Sinev, Sergey Yu.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4208
1
journal volume
37548
10.11646/zootaxa.4208.1.2
a9de2133-2132-4df9-8a76-4769cfa8ace5
1175-5326
201993
045CE67F-3930-4714-B3D2-24358728CAA0
Atkinsonia clerodendronella
Stainton, 1859
(
Figs 10
,
23
)
Atkinsonia clerodendronella
Stainton, 1859
: 125
;
Kasy, 1976
: 426
.
Type
locality:
India
(Calcutta).
Oedematopoda clerodendronella
(Stainton)
:
Walsingham
, 1889
: 19
.
Material examined.
Holotype
,
♀
,
INDIA
:
Calcutta
, 1858, leg.
Atkinson
(
BMNH
).
Additional material.
CHINA
:
1 ♀
,
Dongtang
(
25°18′N
,
107°56′E
),
Maolan
,
Guizhou Province
,
22.x.1988
, leg.
Qile Yang
, genitalia slide No.
L99098
.
Redescription.
Adult (
Fig. 10
) with wingspan 13.0 mm. Head brown; occiput pale brown, with suffused ferrugineous red scales. Antenna dark brown, flagellum with dense pectinate scaling from basal 1/3 to 5/6 on dorsal edge. Patagium, thorax and tegula ferrugineous red. Forewing ferrugineous red (somewhat worn); cilia brown, tinged with ferrugineous red, apex entirely ferrugineous red. Hindwing brown, paler in basal half, with scattered red scales; dorsum with semi-elliptical hyaline space at base; cilia pale brown. Legs blackish brown, with yellowish white scales.
Female genitalia (
Fig. 23
). Papillae anales length about 1.5 times of width, with short setae. Intersegmental membrane between papillae anales and eighth abdominal segment about 1.5 times length of papillae anales. Apophysis posterior about 1.5 times length of apophysis anterior. Eighth segment straight on posterior margin, with long setae; eighth sternite sub-triangular in anterior 1/3; eighth tergite rectangular. Antrum sub-rectangular, length about 1.5 times of width. Ductus bursae narrow posteriorly, slightly broadened towards corpus bursae, about half length of corpus bursae. Corpus bursae sub-elliptical, broadest at posterior 1/3; two signa about same size, subrounded, scobinate, with an obtuse triangular ridge medially, dentate along one margin. Ductus seminalis arising from anterior 1/4 of ductus bursae, about two times length of corpus bursae, broad in basal half, with dilated vesicle between middle and 3/4, thin in distal 1/4.
Biology.
In
India
, larvae fed in webs up the top of a shoot on
Clerodendrum infortunatum
L. and
Anisomeles indica
(L.) Kuntze (
Lamiaceae
) (
Maxwell-Lefroy & Howlett, 1909
;
Fletcher, 1920
).
Distribution.
China
(
Guizhou
);
India
.
Diagnosis.
This species is similar to
A. butalistis
superficially, and the differences between them are stated under the latter species.
Remarks.
This species is recorded in
China
for the first time.