Microlepidoptera of Hong Kong: Oecophoridae I: the genus Promalactis Meyrick Author Wang, Shuxia Author Kendrick, Roger C. Author Sterling, Philip text Zootaxa 2009 2239 31 44 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.275204 7bd377b3-d0bb-4fdf-b776-089e83d4de1b 1175-5326 275204 Promalactis semantris ( Meyrick, 1906 ) ( Figs. 9 , 19 , 26 ) Epicallima semantris Meyrick, 1906 : 408 . Promalactis semantris ( Meyrick, 1906 ) ; Meyrick, 1922 : 26 . Promolactis [sic] suzukiella (Matsumura, 1931) ; Kendrick (2003: 44; plate 3, fig 11) : misidentification. Material examined: CHINA : 1 3, Mai Po Education Centre, Hong Kong , 30.vii.1994 , leg. R. C. Kendrick; 1 3, KARC , Hong Kong , 200 m , 27.iii.1999 , leg. R. C. Kendrick; 1 3, Tai Tam Tuk Reservoir, Hong Kong Island, 7.iv.1999 , leg. R. C. Kendrick; 1 Ƥ, Tai Tam Tuk Reservoir, Hong Kong Island, 29.v.1999 , leg. R. C. Kendrick & M. J. Sterling; 1 3, Tai Mong Tsai, Sai Kung, Hong Kong , 2.ii.2002 , leg. R. C. Kendrick & M. J. Sterling; 4 3, 1 Ƥ, KARC , Hong Kong , 9–16.iv.2007 , leg. Houhun Li et al .; 2 3, 1 Ƥ, Nam Chung Valley, Hong Kong , 18.iv.2007 , leg. Houhun Li et al . Diagnosis. This species is characterized by the forewing having two white basal lines and a rounded spot at costal 3/4 ( Fig. 9 ). It is similar to P. suzukiella both superficially and internally, but can be distinguished from it by male with the uncus having a pair of slender posterolateral processes, the costa extending to a small apex-setose process and the juxta bearing one larger spine and two small teeth posteriorly ( Fig. 19 ); and by female with the lamella postvaginalis being a pair of more or less sclerotized triangular plates ( Fig. 26 ). In P. suzukiella , the uncus is broad at base and narrowed to pointed apex, the costa extends to a fingerlike process with fine hairs and the juxta lacks the large spine and small teeth posteriorly in males; and the lamella postvaginalis in females is somewhat a rectangular plate. Distribution. China ( Hong Kong , Taiwan ), Sri Lanka , Vietnam . Hong Kong distribution and status. Widespread and frequent; 32 records from secondary forest, feng shui woods, mangrove and abandoned agricultural land from sea level to 550 m elevation; flight period: at least bivoltine, seen in March −April and from late May through October.