Genus Promalactis Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) in northern Vietnam. Part II: six new species of the genus
Author
Kim, Sora
Author
Park, Kyu-Tek
Author
Byun, Bong-Kyu
Author
Heppner, John B.
Author
Lee, Seunghwan
text
Journal of Natural History
2012
2012-04-30
46
15 - 16
897
909
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2011.651634
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2011.651634
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Promalactis diorbis
Kim and Park
,
sp. nov.
(
Figures 1E,F
;
2C
;
4
D–F)
Diagnosis
This species is similar to the Chinese species
Promalactis punctuata
Wang
, in wing pattern of forewing, but it can be easily distinguished by the female genitalia, the sclerotized lamella antevaginalis and the corpus bursae with a pair of circular signa bearing tiny spines.
Description
Adult female
(
Figures 1E,F
;
2C
). Head: frons and vertex dark brown, tinged with deep grey, occiput with greyish-dark brown. Antenna with scape white dorsally, dark brown basally and ventrally, shorter than diameter of eye; flagellum white, alternated with dark brown. Second segment of labial palpus pale brown with dark brown distally; third segment dark brown except whitish apex, shorter than the former. Thorax and tegula dark brown near head, pale brown near abdomen dorsally. Wing expanse 8.0–
8.5 mm
. Forewing ground colour brownish yellow, tinged with dark-brown scales near base, at two-thirds length of costal and posterior margins; costal patch oblique, white at two-thirds of costa; nine or ten white spots edged by fuscous scales on lower half of wing and near apex; two near wing base, one under costal patch, five or six under cell before tornus, one after tornus, and one near apex; fringes golden yellow after two-thirds of forewing outer margin. Hindwing lanceolate; fringes greyish brown throughout. Leg dark brown ventrally; hind tarsi with white at entire of first, apical part of second and third segments, basal and apical parts of fourth and fifth segments; hind tibia pale brown with two pairs of pale-brown spurs at sub-apex and base.
Male.
Unknown.
Female genitalia
(
Figure 4
D–F). Apophysis posterioris two times longer than apophysis anterioris. Lamella postvaginalis characteristically shaped, caudal margin incised at middle, lateral margin folded, rarely setose at apex. Lamella antevaginalis sclerotized, well-developed as shown in
Figure 4
. Ductus bursae broad, gradually narrowing, with many spines on left side caudally, twisted once at three-quarters of length. Corpus bursae small, with a pair of circular signa.
Holotype
.
Female
,
Tam Dao Nat. Park
,
Vietnam
,
450 m
,
30 July 2006
, Park, Chae and Cuong.
Paratypes
.
One
female,
Tam Dao Nat. Park
,
Vietnam
,
100 m
,
22 August 2002
,
KT Park
, slide gen. no. SNU-9043; one female, same locality,
950 m
,
14 August 2005
,
KT Park
, gen. slide. no. SNU-9001
.
Distribution
Vietnam
(North).
Etymology
The specific name of the new species is derived from the Greek
di
(= two) plus
orbis
(= circle), referring to a pair of circle-shaped signa.