Description of two new species of Rhodostrophia Hübner, 1823 from China (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)
Author
Cui, Le
Author
Xue, Dayong
Author
Jiang, Nan
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-03-01
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journal article
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Rhodostrophia bisinuata bisinuata
Warren, 1895
Figs 9
,
22
,
33
,
44
,
54
Rhodostrophia bisinuata
Warren, 1895
,
Novit. zool.
, 2: 98.
Holotype
♀
, 'Japan' [incorrect locality], [possibly West
China
] (NHM).
Rhodostrophia vinacearia sinensis
Prout, 1913
,
in
Seitz,
Macrolepid. World
, 4: 43.
Holotype
♁
,
China
:
Moupin
(
NHM
)
.
Diagnosis.
The species is similar to
R. reisseri
sp. nov.
, but can be distinguished by the following characters: the colour of the wings varies from pale yellowish to brown, the medial bands of all wings are sometimes thin and without shadow; a blackish brown marking is usually present on vein M
1
between the postmedial line and the outer margin of the forewing. The genitalia are quite different from
R. reisseri
sp. nov.
: the valva is long and with a quadrate apex; the terminal part of the sacculus is separate from the valva, and forms a long digitiform process; a short spinose process is raised from the cleft of the valva and the saccular process; the apex of the aedeagus is rounded with a tooth, the vesica is partly sclerotized and wrinkle; the male eighth sternite is widely concave on the posterior margin. In the female genitalia, the anterior part of the ductus bursae is much narrower than the posterior part; the signum is composed of two small vertical bars and weakly sclerotized; the seventh sternite is broad, concave on the posterior margin, and forms a pair of narrow and curved pouch-like lateral processes on the anterior margin.
Material examined.
CHINA
:
Yunnan
(IZCAS):
1♀
, Kunming, Heilongtan,
14.V.1980
; 2
6
2♀
, Tengchong, Heinitang,
1930 m
,
28–30.V.1992
, coll. Xue Dayong;
2♀
, Tengchong, Dahaoping,
2020 m
,
24–26.V.1992
,
5– 7.VIII.2007
, coll. Xue Dayong
et al
.
Distribution.
China
(
Hubei
,
Sichuan
,
Yunnan
).