A revision of the genus Trisuloides Butler, 1881 with descriptions of three new species from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Revision of Pantheinae, contribution I
Author
Behounek, Gottfried
Author
Han, Hui-Lin
Author
Kononenko, Vladimir
text
Zootaxa
2011
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1
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journal article
46102
10.5281/zenodo.278996
e57b727c-16bb-4f80-a4fa-166059e74638
1175-5326
278996
Trisuloides prosericea
Han, Kononenko & Behounek
,
sp. n.
(
Figs. 23
,
50
,
61
)
Type
material.
Holotype
:
male, [
China
, Prov. Guangdong, Nanling Mountains],
22.ix.2001
, genit. prep. HHL- 1053-1 (coll.
SCAU
). The
holotype
is deposited in the collection of
SCAU
.
FIGURES 23–30.
Trisuloides
spp, adults. 23 –
T. prosericea
, male, holotype, China (NEFU); 24 –
T. rotundipennis
, male, China (ZFMK); 25 –
T. taiwana
, male, Taiwan (ZSM); 26 –
T. taiwana
, male, Taiwan (AB); 27 –
T. zhangi
, male, China (NEFU); 28 –
T. zhangi
, male, China (NEFU); 29 –
T. xizanga
, male, holotype, China (NEFU); 30 –
T. xizanga
, male, paratype, China (NEFU).
Diagnosis.
In the shape, color and pattern of forewing this new species is similar to
T. sericea
; it differs from the latter by a redder tint and prominent antemedial fascia, filled between borderlines with white. In the male genitalia it differs from
T. sericea
by the short, abrupt harpe, bearing two basal teeth.
Description. Adult
(
Fig. 23
). Wingspan
55 mm
. Head and thorax covered with reddish-brown hair-like scales, tegulae and patagia bordered with whitish. Forewing reddish-brown; basal line indistinct, diffused; submedial line distinct, waved; medial field darker, reddish-brown with diffused medial shadow; orbicular distinct, reniform indistinct, marked outward by black streak; area around reniform paler than ground color; double postmedial fascia peaked on veins, filled between lines with whitish, with clear white, bordered with black subtornal mark; subterminal field blackish-brown, with pale grayish irroration; subterminal line dentate; terminal field reddish brown, with whitish patch in tornal angle; terminal line as a row of dark brown semilunar streaks; cilia brown. Hindwing yellow, with brownish basal part and wide terminal band.
Male genitalia
(
Figs. 50
,
61
). Uncus, tegumen, vinculum and juxta similar to those of
T. sericea
; valva somewhat wider than in
T. sericea
and more acute apically; harpe digitate, more massive and shorter than in
T. sericea
, apically abrupted, directed dorso-transversaly, serrate, with small teeth along apical and dorsal margins and with large bidentate basal projection. Aedeagus rather slender; protruding ventrally, with heavily sclerotized band on carina; vesica somewhat smaller than in
T. sericea
. Female unknown.
Etymology.
The name “
prosericea
” refers to the close relationship of the new species with
T. sericea
.
Distribution and biology.
The species is known only from the
type
locality, Nanling Mts. in Prov. Guandong, South East
China
. The single specimen was collected in September in montane mixed and broad-leaved forest at an elevation of ca.
1400 m
.