A taxonomic review of the genus Nippoptilia (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) from Korea, with description of a new species
Author
Kim, Sora
Author
Byun, Bong-Kyu
Author
Park, Kyu-Tek
Author
Lee, Seunghwan
text
Journal of Natural History
2010
2010-02-22
44
9 - 10
601
613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930903384766
journal article
10.1080/00222930903384766
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Nippoptilia issikii
Yano
(
Figures 3
,
10, 11
,
19–21
,
27, 28
)
Nippoptilia issikii
Yano 1961
, p 73
. TL:
Japan
.
Diagnosis
This species is superficially similar to
N. distigmata
sp. nov.
They can be well defined by the male and female genitalia as noted in the preceding new species.
Adult (
Figures 10–11
).
Wingspan
14–16mm
. Head and frons dark greyish brown. Labial palpus long and dark brown tinged with yellowish white. Thorax black brown. Tegula greyish brown. Forewing cleft from two-thirds, ground colour greyish brown black. First lobe less acute, second lobe produced. Termen rather not sinuate on first lobe, but developed on second lobe. On the dorsum, a scale-tooth at twothirds. Hindwing greyish dark brown, rather darkened toward apex. On the third lobe scale-tooth developed at four-fifths followed with several small blackish scales along the third lobe.
Male genitalia (
Figures 19–21
).
Uncus pointed towards apex. Tegumen deeply incised medially; depth of incision longer than half of tegumen. Valvae slender, symmetrical; scacculus long, extended to six-sevenths of valvae length. Juxta very small, with short lateral lobes. Aedeagus long, about three-fifths length of valva, curved two-thirds basally.
Female genitalia (
Figures 27–28
).
Caudal lobes of papillae analis digitate; close to each other. Apophysis posterioris long, as long as the antrum. Apophysis anterioris absent. Antrum long, tube-like, almost twice the length of eighth segment, with dense curled hairs laterally. Ductus bursae narrow, 1.5 times the length of corpus bursae; ductus seminalis arising from just before conjunction with corpus bursae. Corpus bursae ovate, with a pair of leaf-like signa medially.
Material examined
1♀
,
Mt. Chukryung
,
Prov.
Gyeonggi
,
Korea
,
2 September 2007
, S.
R
.
Kim
, gen. prep. no. CIS-8063/
Kim
;
1♀
,
Gwangneung
,
Prov.
Gyeonggi
,
Korea
,
8 September 2006
,
B.W. Lee
, gen. prep. no. 8080/
Kim
;
1♀
,
Cheolwon-gun
,
Prov.
Gangwon
,
Korea
,
30 May 2005
,
H.L. Han
, gen. prep. no. 8083/
Kim
;
1♀
,
Mt. Sinsunbong
,
Danseongmyeon
,
Prov.
Chungbuk
,
Korea
,
17 October 2006
,
B.W. Lee
, gen. prep. no. 8090/Kim; 13,
Mt. Gwanggyo
, Suji-gu, Yongin-si, Prov. Gyunggi,
Korea
,
6–24 September 2008
,
Jongok Lim
, gen. prep. no. 8103/
Kim
.
Distribution
Korea
(new record),
Japan
.
Host plant
Vitis vinifera
L. (
Vitaceae
) (
Yano 1963
;
Gielis 2003a
).