A taxonomic revision of the Stictopterinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae) in China
Author
Qi, Feng
Author
Wang, Ke
Author
Xue, Dayong
Author
Yang, Ding
text
Zootaxa
2011
2926
1
45
journal article
46596
10.5281/zenodo.205935
405d15e2-bb87-4797-99e0-92ae38e628c7
1175-5326
205935
Lophoptera nama
(
Swinhoe, 1900
)
Figs. 56, 57
,
116
,
143
,
169
Gyrtona nama
Swinhoe, 1900
,
Ann. Mag. nat. Hist.
, (7) 7:492.
Syntypes
:
1 male
1 female
, [
India
]: [Meghalaya], Jaintia Hills (BMNH).
Lophoptera acrogramma
Turner, 1932
,
Trans. Proc. Roy. Soc. South Aust.
, 56: 177.
Lophoptera nama
:
Holloway, 1985
,
Malay. Nat. J.
, 38: 267.
Diagnosis.
This and the next species (
L. brunnama
Holloway, 1985
) have a greyish-white angular patch at the apex of the forewing, which is bigger and tinged with yellow in
L. nama
; the ground color of the forewing of
L. nama
is lighter than in
L. brunnama
. In the male genitalia, the apex of the valva bears a small process, but that of
L. brunnama
is round.
Material examined.
CHINA
, Hainan:
1 female
, Jianfengling,
4.V.1983
, coll. Gu Maobin (
IZCAS
). Guangxi:
1 male
, Jinxiu, Luoxiang,
200 m
,
15.V.1999
, coll. Han Hongxiang;
1 female
, Shangsi, Hongqi Linchang,
300 m
,
28.V.1999
, coll. Zhang Yanzhou (
IZCAS
).
Distribution.
China
(Fujian,
Taiwan
, Hainan, Guangxi, Tibet),
India
,
Bhutan
,
Malaysia
,
Brunei
,
Indonesia
,
Papua New Guinea
,
Australia
.
Remarks.
Holloway (1985)
stated that this species was transferred to
Lophoptera
by Sugi in Inoue
et al.
(1982), but it does not appear in that work. So far as we know, the species
nama
was firstly transfered to
Lophoptera
by
Holloway (1985)
.