A review of Problepsis Lederer, 1853 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from China, with description of two new species
Author
Xue, Dayong
Author
Cui, Le
Author
Jiang, Nan
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-03-08
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journal article
30571
10.11646/zootaxa.4392.1.5
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Problepsis subreferta
Prout, 1935
Figs 8
,
36
, 57, 78
Problepsis subreferta
Prout, 1935
,
in
Seitz,
Macrolepid. World
, 4 (Suppl.): 33, pl. 4: f.
Syntypes
4
♂
,
China
:
Tse-ku
[
Yunnan
] (
NHM
).
Diagnosis.
The species is very close to
P. batangnensis
sp. nov
.
, but is different in the following characters: the male pectinations are rudimentary (the longest ones are much shorter than the diameter of the shaft); the hind tarsus of the male is shorter than one-half length of the tibia, while in
P. batangnensis
sp. nov
.
, it is shorter, about twosevenths to three-sevenths length of the tibia; the outer margin of the ocellus of each wings is smooth, but in
P. batangnensis
sp. nov
, it forms two small protrusions on the forewing and one protrusion on the hindwing; in the male genitalia, the anterior margin of the juxta is free from the sacculus, while it is fused to the sacculus in
P. batangnensis
sp. nov
.
, and the basal part of the valvula is narrower; the apical teeth of the aedeagus and the central process of the male eighth sternite are smaller.
Material examined.
CHINA
:
Yunnan
(
IZCAS
):
1
♂
, Li-kiang,
31.V.1934
, coll. H. Höne (presented by D. Stüning),
IZCAS
slide no. Geom-03417.
Distribution.
China
(
Yunnan
).