Review of the genus Sorolopha Lower (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae, Olethreutinae) from Mainland China, with descriptions of two new species
Author
Yu, Haili
Author
Li, Houhun
text
Zootaxa
2009
2062
1
14
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.186851
6c2dac88-b595-4860-a049-5e20c47b56fc
1175-5326
186851
5.
Sorolopha camarotis
(
Meyrick, 1936
)
(
Figs. 1
,
5
,
9
)
Argyroploce camarotis
Meyrick, 1936
: 612
(3, Ƥ, Bengal,
India
: Assam).
Olethreutes camarotis
:
Clarke, 1958
: 491
, plate 244 figs. 3-3a (
lectotype
designated, 3 genit.).
Eudemis
(
Acanthothyspoda
)
camarotis
:
Diakonoff, 1967
: 52
.
Sorolopha camarotis
:
Diakonoff, 1973
: 96
, figs. 149, 150 (Ƥ genit.)
Sorolopha longurus
Liu & Bai, 1982
: 168
, fig. 7, 12 (adult, 3 genit.,
China
: Jiangxi).
syn. nov.
Sorolopha micheliacola
Liu, 2001
, in Huang (eds.), Fauna of Insects in Fujian Province of
China
(Vol. 5): 45.
syn. nov.
Diagonsis
. The male genitalia of
S. longurus
,
S. micheliacola
, and
S. camarotis
are nearly identical. All have very long socii; simple, narrow gnathos and tuba analis; slender valvae with the sacculus bearing two clusters of bristles, one short and situated on the disc, the other very long and situated on the angulation; and cucullus protruding ventrally at 1/4 length, forming a triangular prominence with four strong apical thorns.
Superficially,
S. longurus
and
S. micheliacola
are very similar, but there are slight differences between them and
S. camarotis
. On the forewing, the longitudinal dark fascia is broken into three spots at the base of the cell in
S. camarotis
, but it is broken at 1/3 length of M1 and M
2 in
S. longurus
and
S. micheliacola
.
The female genitalia of
S. micheliacola
are distinct from those of
S. camarotis
. The sterigma is an aciculate plate surrounding the ostium bursae, less rounded and protruding laterally; the ostium bursae is large and funnel-shaped, its ventral edge deeply concave, its dorsal edge shallowly concave, and the lateral edge produced into sharp angles; the colliculum is broad caudally, gradually narrowing anteriorly; and the corpus bursae is elongate-oval. In contrast, in
S. camarotis
the sterigma is rounded, the ostium bursae is longitudinally suboval, the colliculum is slender, and the corpus bursae is oval.
FIGURES 1–4.
Adults of
Sorolopha
spp. 1.
Sorolopha camarotis
(Meyrick)
; 2.
Sorolopha dactyloidea
sp. n.
; 3.
Sorolopha identaeolochloca
sp. n.
; 4.
Sorolopha rubescens
Diakonoff
Because we collected males and females of
S. micheliacola
at the same locality and on the same date, it is highly likely that the association of the sexes is correct. In contrast, the original description of
S. camarotis
was based on a male from Bengal and a female from Assam,
India
. Because the male of
S. camarotis
matches the male of
S. micheliacola
,
we presume that they are conspecific, and that the female associated with
S. camarotis
from Assam is not. Therefore, based on the characters of the male genitalia and superficial features, we consider
S. longurus
and
S. micheliacola
to be synonyms of
S. camarotis
. The female from Assam,
India
, in our opinion, is not conspecific with the
lectotype
of
S. camarotis
. The female genitalia of
S. camarotis
are shown in
Fig. 9
.
Material examined
.
China
: 43, 5Ƥ, Longling County (
24°35' N
,
98°41' E
), Yunnan Province,
2300 m
,
10-VIII-2005
, leg. Yingdang Ren.
Distribution
.
China
(Fujian, Hainan, Jiangxi, Yunnan),
India
,
Indonesia
,
Thailand
.
Food plants
.
Michelia sampaca
(Magnoliaceae)
(
Diakonoff 1973
) and
M. fuscata
(
Liu and Li 2001
)
.