Taxonomic review of the subfamily Schoenobiinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) from China
Author
Chen, Fu-Qiang
Author
Wu, Chun-Sheng
text
Zoological Systematics
2014
39
2
163
208
http://zoobank.org/eed31956-bf31-4dc1-aa6a-ab349ebfc756
journal article
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10.11865/zs20140201
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3.9
Acropentias
Meyrick, 1890
(
Figs 9
,
112
,
122
)
Acropentias
Meyrick, 1890
.
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.
, 1890: 470.
Type
species:
Sparagmia obtusalis
Christoph, 1881
, by monotypy (junior synonym of
Micraeschus aureus
Butler, 1878
).
Diagnosis. The genus can be distinguished from other genera by vein R
1
stalked with R
2+3+4
and M
2
short stalked with M
3
on forewing.
Description. Head with frons round; labial palpi porrect. A tuft of scales present at outer side of the tibiae of hindlegs.
Wings (
Fig. 9
). Forewing protruded at middle of outer margin; R
1
to R
4
stalked; R
5
arising from upper angle of cell; M
1
from discocellulares; M
2
and M
3
short stalked, arising from lower angle of cell; Cu
1
and Cu
2
before lower angle of cell; CuP present. Hindwing with Sc+R
1
and Rs stalked, arising from upper angle of cell as M
1
; M
2
and M
3
from lower angle of cell; Cu
1
and Cu
2
before lower angle of cell.
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Figs 108–115. Adults. 108.
Archischoenobius pallidalis
. 109.
A. nigrolepis
. 110.
A. nanlingensis
. 111.
A. minumus
. 112.
Acropentias aureus
. 113.
Leechia sinuosalis
. 114.
Brihaspa atrostigmella sinensis
. 115.
Promacrochilo ambiguellus
.
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Figs 116–121. Female genitalia. 116.
Donacaula forficellus
. 117.
Archischoenobius pallidalis
. 118.
A. nigrolepis
. 119.
A. nanlingensis
. 120.
Brihaspa atrostigmella sinensis
. 121.
Promacrochilo ambiguellus
. a. Sclerotized plate. Scale bars = 1 mm.
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Male genitalia. Uncus nearly triangular, dorsal suffused with dense setae; gnathos absent; valva nearly rectangular, covered with dense setae; saccus small; coremata absent; juxta like a rolling column; aedeagus slender, without obvious sclerotized process.
Distribution. Palaearctic and
Oriental
Regions.
Remarks. The genus has five species at present, of which only one was reported in
China
so far.