Revision of the genus Paraplaneta Warren, 1895 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Southeast Asia
Author
Choi, Sei-Woong
Author
Stüning, Dieter
text
Zootaxa
2011
3038
29
44
journal article
46303
10.5281/zenodo.201159
3676f723-2ada-4859-9077-33950ecb52c2
1175-5326
201159
Paraplaneta nebulata
(Xue)
(
Figs. 14, 18
)
Cataclysme nebulata
Xue, 1999
, in Xue and Zhu, Fauna Sinica, Insecta 15: 763, 1045, figs 925 (male genitalia, pseudojuxta), 932 (female genitalia), pl. XX, fig. 23 (HT).
Type
material.
Holotype
ɞ Liancheng, Yongdeng. Gansu,
2,200m
,
15.VI.1988
. [
IZAS
, images of
type
examined]
Diagnosis.
This rather recently described species is similar to
P. sternecki
and
P. hreblayi
, but can be separated by the larger wingspan, the dark grey ground colour with indistinct pattern elements, especially in the hindwings, and the rather uniform underside of the wings, without strongly contrasting whitish postmedial lines as in the other two species. The male antennae are moderately bipectinate, as in
P. sternecki
. The slanted costal part of the central fascia of forewing is broader than in
sternecki
, the discal dots in
nebulata
are much smaller than in
sternecki
and
hreblayi
. The male genitalia of
nebulata
are similar to those of
hreblayi
and
sternecki
by the U-shaped uncus, the latter being wide as in
sternecki
but deep as in
hreblayi
.
P. nebulata
agrees with
sternecki
also in the distally blunt costal process and the long and slender saccular arm without a broadened distal tip, the latter being stout and broad at tip in
hreblayi
. In the female genitalia, the small and more or less rounded lateral sterigma-plates distinguish
nebulata
from those of the other two which are larger and roundly extended caudally.
Material examined.
No additional material has been examined.
Distribution.
NW.
China
(Gansu).