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
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.3
journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.3
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Macrobathra bipunciata
Li
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs 11
,
28
)
Type material.
CHINA
,
Guangdong
:
Holotype
♁,
Mt. Dadong
,
Lianzhou County
,
650 m
,
25.VI.2004
, leg.
DD Zhang
, slide
No. ZD
21315.
Diagnosis.
The new species can be distinguished from its congeners by the yellow subbasal fascia of the forewing with posterior 1/3 twice as wide as the anterior 2/3, and the costal margin having two small yellowish-white spots; in the male genitalia by the tegumen with a triangular process on the right margin.
Description.
Adult (
Fig. 11
). Wingspan 16.0 mm.
Head
with frons and vertex yellow, mixed with brown scales. Antenna: scape dark brown mixed with yellow dorsally, pale yellow ventrally; flagellum dark brown alternated with light yellow dorsally and yellowish brown ventrally. Labial palpus: second palpomere yellow; third palpomere dark brown except basal 3/4 yellow dorsally, with a pale yellow streak running from base to apex on ventral surface.
Thorax
and tegula tawny, with yellow scales on outer margin. Forewing tawny; subbasal fascia yellow, inner margin nearly straight, outer margin from 1/5 of costal margin oblique to fold, then straight to dorsum, posterior 1/3 twice as wide as anterior 2/3, edged with dark brown scales; costal margin with small yellowish-white spot at 1/2 and 1/5 respectively; fringe yellowish brown. Hindwing and fringe yellowish brown. Fore- and midlegs yellowish brown on ventral surface, yellowish white on dorsal surface, tarsus with dark brown scales; hindleg yellowish white, tibia and tarsus with dark brown scales on outer surface.
Male genitalia
(
Fig. 28
). Socius symmetrical, slender, gradually narrowed to pointed apex. Tegumen with a shallow anterior emargination, with a triangular process near right anterolateral corner. Vinculum narrowly banded. Valva asymmetrical: left valva with ventral margin produced semicircularly between 1/6 and 1/3, with short setae, basal 1/3 to 3/4 slender, distal 1/4 expanded ovally, with short spines at apex; valvella slender, rounded at apex, as long as 3/4 length of left valva. Right valva much stronger, broadened towards apex, apex with sparse setae, concave at middle, dorsoapical corner produced and narrowed to rounded apex, ventral corner obtusely rounded; valvella with basal half wide, sharply narrowed from beyond middle to pointed apex, with sparse setae. Anellus with a long clubbed posterior process, longer than socius, rounded at apex. Aedeagus stout; cornuti consisting of a bunch of fine spines running from middle to distal 1/4 and a cluster of strong spines at apex.
Female unknown.
Distribution.
China
(
Guangdong
).
Etymology.
The specific epithet of the new species is derived from the Latin
bipunciatus
, referring to the two yellowish-white spots on the costal margin of the forewing.