Review of the genus Zelleria Stainton (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutidae, Yponomeutinae) in East Asia, with description of a new species
Author
Na, Sol-Moon
Author
Ponomarenko, Margarita G.
Author
Bae, Yang-Seop
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-04-03
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4576.3.8
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Zelleria silvicolella
Moriuti, 1977
(Figs. 3, 12a, 12b)
Zelleria silvicolella
Moriuti, 1977
: 222
;
Yamauchi & Hirowatari, 2013
: 162
. TL:
Japan
, Honshu.
Diagnosis.
Z. silvicolella
is characterized by the forewing having a white streak or spot along costa from basal 1/3 almost to apex. The female genitalia are otherwise similar to those of
Z. asiatica
sp. nov.
, but can be separated by the following characters: ductus bursae less than 2.5 times as long as the corpus bursae, the signum band-shaped with denticles, extending about half the length of the corpus bursae in
Z. silvicolella
.
Redescription.
Adult (Fig. 3). Wingspan
12–13 mm
. Vertex with rough and erect cream white scales extended to dorsal half of frons, frons otherwise with pale ochreous, appressed scales, scales around compound eyes pale brown. Antenna filiform; scape pale gray with brown pecten; flagellum cream white, ringed with dark brown. Labial palpus porrect, blunt-tipped; ochreous inside, orange yellow outside, with ochreous tip. Thorax yellow brown, mixed with violet luster; tegula yellow brown with violet luster. Fore-, and midlegs light brown with violet luster, faintly irrorated with white scales; hindleg dark gray mixed with white scales, each segment of tarsus dark brown, irrorated with white scales. Abdomen pale shining gray. Forewing elongate, narrowed distally, ground color light brown; violet, lustrous patch at basal area, black brown costal streak extended from basal patch to basal 1/4; violet, lustrous scales at basal 1/3, white streak almost from basal 1/3 almost to apex, irrorated with dark brown scales, white spot at apex, distal area suffused with violet luster, white and dark brown scales scattered in median area; fringe ochreous gray. Hindwing and fringe ochreous gray.
Female genitalia (Figs. 12a, 12b). Papilla analis arrow-shaped. Apophysis posterioris 0.9 times as long as apophysis anterioris. Apophysis anterioris branched. Lamella postvaginalis setose, with posterior wide rounded lobes. Antrum cylindrical, sclerotized. Ductus bursae over 2 times as long as corpus bursae, tubular, membranous, granulose in proximal half beyond ductus seminalis. Corpus bursae ovate; signum band-shaped, 1/2 length of corpus bursae with denticles.
Material examined. [OPU]
1 ♀
, (
Holotype
),
Japan
,
Honshu
,
Iwateken
,
Gando
,
22.
VI
.1965 (T Oku).
Distribution.
Japan
(
Hokkaido
, Honshu).
Host plant.
Oleaceae
:
Syringa reticulata
Blume (
Moriuti 1977
)
.
Remarks.
The species is reported from the Russian Far East by
Gershenson (1986)
, but illustrated specimens are certainly not conspecific with
Z. silvicolella
Moriuti
, having differences in the length of antrum and the shape of the signum in the female genitalia. This record, followed by (
Sinev 2008
;
Ponomarenko 2016
) is thus erroneous.