Study of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914 (Lepidoptera: Autostichidae) from China, with descriptions of twenty-one new species (II)
Author
Wang, Shuxia
College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
Author
Zhu, Xiaoju
College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China & zxjyouxiang @ 126. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4590 - 8480
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-11-19
4881
2
257
289
journal article
9530
10.11646/zootaxa.4881.2.3
33c0b2ac-f010-4b11-a819-0796497a6928
1175-5326
4283658
2F76CB59-C81F-4DE8-B05D-65FBAC889F73
The
annulignatha
-
group
Diagnostic characters.
Moths of the
annulignatha-
group share a dark broad lanceolate forewing with two small, ill-defined yellow costal spots, and sometimes a larger yellow dorsal spot. Forewing length running from 8.5 to 9.0 mm, length approximately 3.1‾3.5 times of the maximum width. In male genitalia, uncus bifurcate apically; gnathos circular, with a distinct anteromedian plate in some species; costa with a large process near base; sacculus separated from the valva entirely or only distally, often produced to one or two processes distally. In female genitalia, ductus bursae partly sclerotized, or membranous with granules; signum usually absent.
The
annulignatha-
group is one of the smallest groups, including one described species from
China
,
M. bifoliolata
(Wang, 2006) (in
Wang 2006a
)
, and four new species described herein.