Saturnia jonasii Butler, 1877 on Jejudo Island, a new saturnid moth of South Korea with DNA data and morphology (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)
Author
Kim, Min Jee
Author
Kim, Sung-Soo
Author
Choi, Sei-Woong
Author
Kim, Iksoo
text
Zootaxa
2015
3946
3
374
386
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3946.3.5
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1175-5326
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Saturnia jonasii
Butler, 1877
(Korean name: hal-la-san-nu-e-na-bang)
Figs. 1
A, 1B, 2A and 2C.
Saturnia jonasii
Butler, 1877
: 479
;
Nässig, 1994
: 257
.
Type
locality: [
Japan
] Yokohama.
Caligula boisduvalii jonasii
:
Inoue
et al.
, 1982
: 588
, pl. 122, f. 1, 2.
Caligula jonasii
:
Inoue, 1984
: 3
.
Material examined.
10 males
, Mt. Hallasan, Jejudo Province,
N33° 24′
35″,
E126° 29′
43″,
681 m
,
3 October
, 2008, MNU (
CNU
SJ
4001-
SJ
4010 for
DNA
), S. W. Choi;
1 male
, Mt. Hallasan, Jejudo Province,
N33° 24′
35″,
E126° 29′
43″,
681 m
,
20 October
, 2005, MNU, S.W. Choi;
1 male
, Hallasan, Jejudo Province,
N33° 24′
35″,
E126° 29′
43″,
681 m
,
9 October
, 2009, MNU, S. S. Kim;
1female
, Mt. Hallasan, Jejudo Province,
N33° 20' 05"
,
E126° 28' 12"
,
997m
,
5.October
, 2007, MNU, S.W. Choi.
FIGURE 1.
Adult
Saturnia jonasii
and
S. boisduvalii
. A:
S. jonasii
male (Mt. Hallasan, Jejudo Province, South Korea), B:
S. jonasii
female female (Mt. Hallasan, Jejudo Province, South Korea), C:
S. boisduvalii
male (Jochimryung, Inje, Gwangwondo Province, South Korea), and D:
S. boisduvalii
female (Mt. Jirisan, Jeollabukdo Province, South Korea).
Diagnosis.
This species is a typical large saturnid moth (wingspan
69–80 mm
in males and
70–85 mm
in females). Adult
S. jonasii
are characterized by a plumose antennae in males and a short pectinated antennae in females, irregularly purplish brown fore- and hindwings with different densities, often yellowish brown, which is more prominent in females; the large orbicular stigma on the eyespot on both wings, the ochreous and strongly slanted postmedial line and the brownish termen of forewing, the dark brownish transverse antemedial and medially strongly projected postmedial line, and the relatively wide subterminal band that shows a smooth interline and a strongly waved outer line of the hindwing. The
S. jonasii
wing pattern elements are very similar to those of
S. boisduvalii
but can be distinguished by the wider gap between the eyespot and postmedial line of the forewing and the smooth postmedial line and the dorsally strongly pointed outer line of the hindwing subterminal band.
S. jonasii
male genitalia are characterized by a bifid uncus, the long and strongly sclerotized chimney-shaped transtilla, the medially projected saccus, the triangular-shaped valva with a sharp apex, and the digitate harpe and rather thick aedeagus with one short and one long cornuti.
S. jonasii
male genitalia are similar to those of
S. boisduvalii
but can be distinguished by the sharply pointed apex and long button-shaped harpe of the valva and the two cornuti of the aedeagus.
S. jonasii
female genitalia can be distinguished by the semi-rounded and hairy papillae analis, the rectangular and strongly sclerotized ostium bursae, the medially narrowed ductus bursae, which are relatively short, and the anteriorly narrowed and membranous ovate corpus bursae that lack a signum.
S. jonasii
female genitalia are similar to those of
S. boisduvalii
but can be distinguished by the medially narrowed ductus bursae.
Hosts.
Carpinus tschonoskii
, in
Betulaceae
,
Quercus phillyraeoides
,
Quercus serrate
,
Castanea crenata
in
Fagaceae
,
Lindera umberallata
var.
membranacea
in
Lauraceae
,
Prunus yedoensis
,
Prunus jamasakura
in
Rosaceae
,
Acer mono
var.
marmoratum
in
Aceraceae
,
Ilex rotunda
in
Aquifoliaceae
,
Swida macrophylla
in Cornaseae,
Lyonia ovalifolia
in
Ericaceae
, and
Styrax japonica
in
Styracaceae (
Shiromoto & Sakuratani, 2007
)
.
Distribution.
Korea
(Jejudo Island, new record),
Japan
, including Tsushima Island, and
Taiwan
.
Ecology.
This species is univoltine during October in northern
Japan
(Sayama
et al
. 2012).