Partial revision of Promalactis Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae), based on specimens deposited in the Natural History Museum, London
Author
Wang, Shuxia
College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
Author
Liu, Chen
0000-0002-9111-6644
College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
348143302@qq.com
Author
David, Lees
0000-0002-7580-8560
Department of Science, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, SW 7 5 BD
david.lees@nhm.ac.uk
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-11-01
5536
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1
58
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5536.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5536.1.1
1175-5326
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Promalactis latignatha
Wang, 2020
(
Fig. 80
)
Promalactis latignatha
Wang, 2020a
,
in
Wang & Liu: 83. TL:
Thailand
(Chieng Mai). TD: ZMUC.
Material examined.
Thailand
:
1♂
,
Doi Suthep-Pui NP
,
Chiang Mai
,
1460 m
,
26.IV.–10.V.1989
, leg.
A.M. Cotton
, slide
No.
NHMUK010317120
;
2♀
,
Doi Suthep-Pui NP
,
Chiang Mai
,
1540 m
,
31.V.1989
, leg.
I.J. Kitching
&
A.M. Cotton
, slide
No.
NHMUK010317119
.
Female genitalia
(
Fig. 80
). Apophyses anteriores 1/2 length of apophyses posteriores. Eighth sternum inverted trapezoidal. Antrum short, widened to posterior margin, sclerotized laterally. Ductus bursae with posterior 1/2 uniformly narrow, posterior 1/3 membranous, anterior 1/2 uniformly wider, heavily sclerotized from posterior 2/5 to corpus bursae, except interrupted by membrane at middle, with several short spines at beginning of sclerotized part from beyond middle. Corpus bursae ovate, less than 1/2 length of ductus bursae; signum gear-shaped, with short sub-digitate processes along margins, with three horizontal lines of 2–4 short spines.
Distribution.
Thailand
.
Note.
The female of this species is described for the first time.