Four new species and two new records of Nola Leach, 1815 from China (Lepidoptera: Nolidae: Nolinae)
Author
Yu, Yong
0000-0003-0409-9741
Lepidoptera Research Group, School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, 621010, China.
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Author
Hu, Yan-Qing
Lepidoptera Research Group, School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, 621010, China.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5477.4.6
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Nola mojiangensis
Yu & Hu
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 11–13
)
Type material.
Holotype
: male,
Mojiang county
,
1515 m
,
Puer
,
Yunnan Prov.
,
15.vii.2023
, leg.
Yanqing Hu
&
Yong Yu.
Paratypes
:
2 males
, with the same data as the holotype
.
Diagnosis.
Externally, the new species closely resembles
Nola pinratanoides
Hu, Wang & Han, 2015
, due to the uniform ground color of its forewings. However, the discernible differences are observed in their male genitalia: the new species has a broad tegumen, an apically thick and sharply curved harpe, a relatively narrow sacculus and a short aedeagus with a short spine, while
N. pinratanoides
has a relatively narrow tegumen, an apically thin and gradually curved harpe, a wide sacculus and a long aedeagus with a long spine.
Description.
Adult (
Fig. 11
). Wingspan
16–17 mm
. Head blackish brown; antenna brown, bipectinate in the male; labial palpus short, stretched forward, mostly covered with dark brown scales. Thorax and collar covered with grayish black scales. Abdomen brown. Forewing ground color grayish brown; the basal line undistinguished; the antemedial line brown; the medial line undistinguished; the postmedial line formed by dots, blackish brown at the vein; the subterminal line formed by dots, pale dark brown, wavy; the terminal line undistinguished; cilia brown. Hindwing grayish brown; discal spot grayish black.
Male genitalia
(
Figs. 12, 13
). Uncus degenerated; tegumen relatively broad; valva bilobate near the base, the dorsal arm longer than the ventral arm; the dorsal arm sclerotized at the costal margin, rounded at the apex; the ventral arm sclerotized at the ventral margin; harpe sharply curved apically, pointed at the apex; sacculus slender; saccus V-shaped. Aedeagus short, with a short, anterio-laterally curved spine; vesica without cornuti.
Female.
Unknown.
Distribution.
China
(Prov.
Yunnan
).
Etymology.
The species name is derived from the name of the type-locality, the Mojiang county, Prov.
Yunnan
.