Taxonomic review of the genus Commatarcha Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Carposinoidea: Carposinidae) from China, with descriptions of four new species
Author
Qian, Shuonan
Author
Li, Houhun
text
Zootaxa
2018
4418
5
432
448
journal article
30106
10.11646/zootaxa.4418.5.2
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Commatarcha palaeosema
Meyrick, 1935
(
Figs 3
,
12
,
18
)
Commatarcha palaeosema
Meyrick, 1935a
: 594
;
Okano, 1959
: 269
;
Yano, 1959
: 214
;
Clarke, 1963
: 46
;
Stănoiu & Nemeş, 1968
: 108
;
Kawabe, 1982
,
1
: 289,
2
: 216;
Park, 1983
: 450
(misidentification of
Commatarcha vaga
Diakonoff, 1989
);
Diakonoff, 1989
: 24
;
Cho & Park, 1990
: 88
;
Li, 2004
: 87
. TL:
Japan
(Honshu). TD: BMNH.
Bondia quaestrix
Meyrick, 1935b
:
Diakonoff 1950
: 294
. Misidentification.
Material
examined.
CHINA
:
Yunnan Province
:
1 ♂
,
Taiyanghe National Forest
Park, Pu'er City,
1450 m
,
5.iv.2015
, leg.
Kaijian Teng
, slide
No.
QSN17502
.
Zhejiang Province
:
1 ♂
,
Mt. Gutian
,
Kaihua County
,
310 m
,
18.v.2017
, leg.
Shuonan Qian
&
Ga-Eun Lee
, slide
No.
QSN17525
;
1 ♂
,
Mt. Jiulong
,
530 m
,
4.vii.2013
, leg.
Aihui Yin
&
Xiuchun Wang
;
1 ♂
,
Mt. Longtang
,
520 m
,
25.vii.2014
, leg.
Aihui Yin
,
Xuemei Hu
&
Qingyun Wang
.
Diagnosis.
Commatarcha palaeosema
can be distinguished from its congeners by the forewing having an inverted V-shaped ocherous yellow spot at basal 1/3 of the costal margin. The male genitalia are diagnostic by the triangular valva slightly curved ventrad distally and the cornuti of aedeagus arranged in a row of several strong spines of almost the same size. This species is similar to
C
.
hamata
sp. nov.
, and the differences between them are stated in the preceding species.
Redescription.
Adult (
Fig. 12
). Wingspan 10.0‒12.0 mm. Head leaden grey. Labial palpus black, extending forward; second segment with dense greyish white on inner surface, slightly longer than diameter of eye; third segment short, about 1/3 length of second segment, greyish white at apex. Antenna with scape black on dorsal surface, greyish white on ventral surface; flagellum brown, cilia on ventral surface same length as diameter of flagellum. Thorax and tegula black, with purplish blue reflection. Forewing relatively broad, widened from base to basal 1/3, parallel from basal 1/3 to distal 1/4, thereafter narrowed triangularly to rounded apex; costal margin straight, termen obliquely straight; ground coloration leaden grey, with dense black scales; costal margin black, with six greyish white dots evenly spaced from distal half to apex, increasing in size, except outmost one smaller; termen obliquely straight, black; with nine raised black scale tufts: three scale tufts arranged from basal 1/8 below costal margin obliquely inward to basal 1/6 of 1A+2A above dorsum, other scale tufts scattered on median 1/3 of wing, tuft at basal 1/3 of costal margin forming an inverted V-shaped, white to yellow mark, tufts at upper and lower angles of cell edged with white scales on outer side, forming a large white lunate mark and a white stripe respectively, mixed with ochreous yellow scales, other tufts tipped with leaden grey; black band from middle of R3 curved to tornus, sinuate along both outer and inner margins; fringe black. Hindwing greyish brown, apex narrowly rounded, termen obliquely straight; fringe greyish brown.
Male genitalia
(
Fig. 18
). Uncus semielliptical, setose. Tegumen narrowly banded. Valva sub-triangular, narrowed to slightly hooked apex; dorsobasal process rod-shaped, curved and extending outward, setose distally; ventrobasal process broad wedge-shaped, longer than and parallel to dorsobasal process, heavily sclerotized along ventral margin. Vinculum longer than height of tegumen; saccus slender, rounded at apex, about 4/5 length of valva. Juxta sub-triangular, broad at base, narrowed to rounded apex. Ectophallus triangular, heavily sclerotized along basal margin, with sclerotized carinae medio-longitudinally, about 3/4 height of tegumen. Aedeagus slender, shorter than distance from apex of uncus to that of saccus, basal 3/5 uniform, except slightly dilated at base, broadened from distal 2/5 to distal 1/5, distal 1/5 narrowed to pointed apex; cornuti shaped as a cluster of nearly same sized large spines, placed distally.
Female genitalia. See
Diakonoff 1989
: 26.
Distribution.
China
:
Yunnan
,
Zhejiang
(new record);
Japan
(
Meyrick 1935a
).
Remarks.
This species is recorded for the first time in
China
.