Twelve new species and four new records of Stenoloba Staudinger 1892 from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Bryophilinae)
Author
Han, H. L.
Author
Kononenko, V. S.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-03-05
4388
3
301
327
journal article
30605
10.11646/zootaxa.4388.3.1
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1175-5326
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Stenoloba brunnescens
Kononenko & Ronkay, 2000
(
Figs 17
,
44
)
Stenoloba brunnescens
Kononenko & Ronkay, 2000
,
Insecta Koreana
, 17(3):161, fig. 17 (
Holotype
: male,
Vietnam
, Prov.
Lao Cai
, Fan-si-pan Mts.,
1920 m
,
4 km
SW
Cat Cat
,
HNHM
,
Budapest
).
Material examined.
4 males:
1 male
,
China
, Prov.
Yunnan
,
Simao
,
18.iv.2013
,
H.L. Han
&
C. Zhang
leg., slide 6138-1
;
1 male
, Prov.
Yunnan
,
Longba
,
26.vi.2013
,
H.L. Han
&
C. Zhang
leg., slide 6140-1
;
2 males
, Prov.
Yunnan
,
Wanding
,
25.vi.2013
,
H.L. Han
&
C. Zhang
leg., slide 6139-1, 6141-1, coll.
NEFU
.
Diagnosis.
Stenoloba brunnescens
(
Fig. 17
) is similar to
S
.
plumbeoviridis
and
S
.
plumbeobrunnea
described above, being the representative of
S
.
clara
species group. Externally it differs from other members of the group by its dark reddish-brown colouration of forewing, without green or olive-greenish shining. The male genitalia (
Fig. 44
) also refer to its affinity with the taxa of the
S
.
clara
group by the shape of valva with swelling in the medial part. The closest species to
S
.
brunnescens
is newly described
S
.
plumbeobrunnea
, from which the former differs by narrower and less curved valva with shorter but broader apical part, directed distally. The female genitalia (illustrated by
Kononenko & Ronkay, 2000
) differ mostly from those of the related taxa by their much broader antrum with significantly longer postero-lateral arms.
Distribution.
Southwest
China
(Prov.
Yunnan
), North
Vietnam
. Moths were collected in April and June. The species formerly was known from North
Vietnam
only; hereby it is recorded for
China
for the first time. New data considerable extend the distribution pattern of
S
.
brunnescens
.