Two new species and a new record of Spininola from China (Lepidoptera: Nolidae: Nolinae)
Author
Hu, Yan-Qing
Author
Wang, Min
Author
Han, Hui-Lin
text
Zootaxa
2012
3547
85
88
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.212909
55b505fb-0127-4faa-8ec9-ee8aa49105c8
1175-5326
212909
Spininola subvesiculalis
Hu, Wang & Han
,
sp. nov.
(Figs. 2, 3)
Material Examined.
Holotype
. Male, Mt. Donglashan, Sichuan,
China
,
23. VII. 2009
, Min
WANG
, Houshuai
WANG
& Yang
LONG
.
Paratype
.
1 male
, Nanling National Nature Reserve, Guangdong,
China
,
4. VI. 2011
, Min
WANG
, Haiming XU & Wengtang
WANG
. The
type
specimens are deposited in the collection of South
China
Agricultural University, Guangzhou,
China
.
Diagnosis.
This new species is externally close to
S. vesiculalis
(Eecke, 1926)
, but can be distinguished by the forewing with darker color and without obvious spots; uncus tapering, shrinking at middle in
vesiculalis
; dorsal arm of valva broader and smooth at dorsal margin, obtuse angle at dorsal margin in
vesiculalis
; apex of ventral arm rounder than
vesiculalis
; harpe slightly curved to costa near apex; aedeagus straight and slightly broader at middle; coecum short, tubular.
Description.
Adult (Fig. 2). Wingspan
25mm
. Head white; antenna brown except white at base, bipectinate; labial palpus short, stretch forwardly, mostly covered with black scales. Thorax grayish brown, diffused with white scales. Abdomen brown, diffused with white scales. Forewing ground color brown; basal line brown, just presented at costal margin; antemedial line excurved to cell, then incurved to inner margin; medial line not obvious, similarly arc-shaped; postmedial line blackish brown, sinuous; subterminal line slight and excurved to M1, then incurved to inner margin and parallel with terminal line; terminal line dark brown; cilia brown. Hindwing grayish white, diffused with grayish brown and small dots; middle line very blurred. Male genitalia (Fig. 3): Uncus short and thin, penpoint-shaped, 1/3 times as long as tegumen; tegumen thin; valva divided at base, dorsal arm somewhat longer than ventral arm; dorsal arm broaden distally, sclerotized at costal margin; ventral arm slightly curved, sclerotized at ventral margin; harpe robust, strongly sclerotized, elongated and hook-shaped; sacculus broaden and thick, 1/3 times as long as the ventral arm of valva; saccus small and triangle-shaped; juxta anomalously triangle-shaped, and strongly sclerotized at rim. Aedeagus medium-long, weakly flat, slightly broaden at middle, shovel-shaped at extremity; coecum short tubular, 1/4 times as long as aedeagus; vesica without cornuti. Female:Unknown.
Distribution.
China
(Sichuan, Guangdong).
Etymology.
The specific name is taken from the name of the similar species
S. vesiculalis
(Eecke, 1926)
.