The Paranthrenini of Mainland China (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae)
Author
Kallies, Axel
Author
Arita, Yutaka
Author
Owada, Mamoru
Author
Wu, Guo-Yi
Author
Wang, Min
text
Zootaxa
2014
3811
2
185
206
journal article
45621
10.11646/zootaxa.3811.2.2
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Paranthrene rubomacula
Kallies & Owada
sp. nov.
(
Figs 1, 2
,
29
)
Material examined.
Holotype
.
♂, Guangxi, Guilin, Maoershan,
500–1500 m
,
6.–10.VIII.2007
(
SCAU
).
Paratypes
.
1♂
, 1♀, same date as
holotype
(♂,
Fig. 1
,
CAK
, ♀,
Fig. 2
,
NSMT
);
4♂
, 1♀, same locality,
730 m
,
11.–15.VIII.2009
(
NSMT
,
CAK
,
1♂
Gen. Prep. AK654);
1 ♂
, Prov. Guandong, Shaoguang, Nanling,
800 m
,
10.VII.2010
(
NSMT
).
Description. Male (
Fig. 1
).
Wingspan
33 mm
; forewing length
15 mm
; body length
21 mm
. Head: labial palps white ventrally and baso-laterally; frons grey-black, white laterally; pericephalic scales white ventrally and laterally; patagia with few white scales laterally. Fore coxa with white lateral edge, mid femur with white border laterally; first tarsomer of hind leg with white spot distally. Forewing: with few white scales at the base; discal spot very wide, with a large red spot in its centre; ventrally similar but red mark more extensive. Hindwing: largely transparent, with broad outer margin and strong discal spot; opaque between veins Cu1 and Cu2. Abdomen: tergites black; sternites with white distal borders; valva with white scales; anal tuft black, long and slender.
Female (
Fig. 2
).
Almost identical to male. Antennae simple.
Genitalia. Male (Gen. prep. AK654,
Fig. 29
).
Uncus (a) long and slender, with soft setae apically; gnathos (b) with simple ventral margin with two short and rounded projections; valva long, dorsal field of ventral surface (c) covered with soft, multi-tipped setae, each with ca 8 tips; ventral area of valva surface (d) with simple soft setae; basal patch (e) with strong pointed setae; phallus straight, shorter than valva, with a subapical plate with 4–5 small teeth (f).
Diagnosis.
A very distinctive species; most body parts black with a bluish sheen, with a distinct red discal spot and a slender body. It is not similar to any known representatives of
Paranthrene
or related genera.