Review of the genus Thliptoceras Warren, 1890 (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Pyraustinae) from the Oriental region of China
Author
Zhang, Dandan
Author
Xu, Jiawen
Author
Li, Jinwei
text
Zootaxa
2014
3796
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3796.2.3
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Thliptoceras artatalis
(
Caradja, 1925
)
Figs. 3, 4, 15, 16, 30, 39
Crocidophora artatalis
Caradja, 1925
: 101
, pl. 2, figs. 54, 55.
Type
locality:
China
, Lienping; Amoy.
Thliptoceras artatale
:
Munroe, 1967
: 723
.
DIagnosIs.
Wing expanse
22–28 mm
.
Thliptoceras artatalis
has the narrow, modified wings of the
artatalis
group in the male. It is characterised by yellow wings with contrasting brown termen and fringe, and by a male antenna with scape and pedicel slightly compressed dorsally and flagellum with a short cone-shaped scale-tooth dorsally at base followed by a few lightly compressed segments. Male genitalia with distal half of uncus extremely slender, pencil-shaped, without setae; costa straight with a minute spine at apex; editum long and recurved; process of sacculus long, finger-shaped, extending dorsad beyond transtilla; anellus with two slim and long sclerotized bands which are unique and diagnostic. Female genitalia with antrum funnel-shaped, anteriorly tapering, ductus bursae rather short, longitudinally wrinkled; signum very large (wider than half diameter of corpus bursae) and asymmetrical, with angles bearing carina rounded and the other two narrower and longer; accessory bursae arising from middle part of corpus bursae.
MaterIal examIned
.
CHINA
, Zhejiang:
3 ♂
, 1 ♀, Mt. Tianmushan, alt.
295 m
,
11.V.2012
, coll. Li Jinwei; Fujian:
4♂
, 3 ♀, Tongmu, Mt. Wuyishan, alt.
759 m
, 19,
20
.V.2012, coll. Li Jinwei; Jiangxi: 2 ♀, Xiagongtang, Mt. Jiulianshan, alt.
630 m
,
29.VIII.2007
, coll. Zhang Dandan;
11 ♂
, 27 ♀, Daqiutian, Mt. Jiulianshan, alt.
500 m
, 30,
31
.VIII.2007, coll. Zhang Dandan and Pang Hong, 12,
13
.VII.2008, He Fengxia, Li Jiahui and Jia Fenglong, et. al.;
3 ♂
, 8 ♀, Xiaoxidong, Mt. Jinggangshan,
2.VIII.2011
, coll. Li Jinwei,
2.IX.2011
, coll. Yang Lijun;
2 ♂
, Mt. Sanqingshan, alt.
389 m
,
15.V.2012
, coll. Li Jinwei; Guangdong:
5 ♂
, 6 ♀, Heshan County,
22–24.IV.
,
28.V.
,
16.VII.
,
6.VIII.
,
28.VIII.2002
,
28.III.2003
, coll. Liu Guilin, Pang Hong and Chen Haidong; 1 ♀, Mt. Nankunshan,
16.VII.2003
, coll. Zhang Dandan and Li Zhiqiang;
5 ♂
, 2 ♀, Lianping County,
12.VIII.2009
, coll. Zeng Yanyi; 3 ♀, Yanshuitian, Mt. Heishiding, Fengkai County,
2.V.
,
3.VIII.2011
, coll. Zhang Dandan, Tong Bo and Xie Jiaqin;
1 ♂
, Heerkou, Fengkai County,
2.VII.2010
, coll. Chen Haidong, Zhang Dandan, Tong Bo;
3 ♂
, 4 ♀, Mt. Heishiding, Fengkai County,
14.VI.2009
, coll. Han Xiaolei,
7.V.2010
,
1.V.2011
, coll. Zhang Dandan and Tong Bo;
12 ♂
, 19 ♀, Mt. Danxiashan, alt.
96 m
,
408 m
,
15.IV.
,
31.V.2008
, coll. He Fengxia,
6–7.VI.2012
, coll. Li Jinwei; Guangxi:
1 ♂
, Mt. Shiwandashan, alt.
352 m
,
18.IV.2012
, coll. Li Jinwei; Hainan,
2 ♂
, 1 ♀, Mt. Limushan,
4–6.V.2012
, coll. Zhang Dandan, Yang Lijun and Yang Lifeng; Guizhou:
1 ♂
, Mt. Fanjingshan,
25.VIII.2012
, coll. Li Jinwei and Chen Xiaohua.
DIstrIbutIon
.
China
(Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Guizhou).