A review of the Eastern Palaearctic genera Paragona Staudinger, 1892 and Paragabara Hampson, 1926 with description of two new species and a new genus (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Aventiinae, Hypeninae)
Author
Kononenko, Vladimir S.
Author
Han, Hui-Lin
Author
Yu, Alexej
Author
V, Ато
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Zootaxa
2010
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.199269
ccb8ae2e-60e9-47a6-9278-b0b88d40eb16
1175-5326
199269
Paragona cleorides
Wileman, 1911
(
Figs. 4
,
20
)
Paragona cleorides
Wileman, 1911
,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London
1911: 266. Type-locality:
Japan
, Sapporo, Jozanke [BMNH, London].
Material examined.
7 males
,
Japan
, Hokkaido, Odaira.
26–29.vii.1954
(coll. P. Savolainen) (
ZMHU
).
Distribution.
Japan
(Hokkaido, Honshu).
Diagnosis.
P. cleorides
(
Fig. 4
) differs from its allies by paler ground colour and rusty medial field on fore and hindwing. Head and thorax ash-grey with intrusion of black scales; ground colour of wing pale yellowish - ash-grey, darker in costal and basal areas; medial field of fore and hind wings rusty-brownish; antemedial line expressed as black dash in costal area; postmedial line thin, dentate, continue as thin line on hindwing; subterminal field grey, somewhat darker background; subterminal line thin, pale yellowish-grey, bordered outside with diffused blackish streaks; terminal area pale yellowish-grey, terminal line thin, blackish; cilia pale-yellowish grey mixed with dark grey, formed by long scales. Orbicular as indistinct pale spot; reniform distinct, blackish, comma-like. Hindwing pattern reflect those of forewing, with rusty-brown medial field, thin blackish antemedial line and wide diffused postmedial and subterminal lines. Male genitalia (
Fig. 20
) conspicuously differ from allied species. Uncus short, tegumen shorter than vinculum, with moderate peniculus; subscaphium sclerotized, juxta separated for two plates. Valva short, wide at base, in distal third constricted, extended in apex; sacculus very narrow and long; harpe absent; digitus as short finger-like apical extension in distal part of valva; apical part of valva with wide rounded plate formed from costa and angled extension of sacculus. Aedeagus short, strong, with sclerotized spines on apex; vesica globular, bearing two strong, moderate cornuti on wide base. Female unknown.
Distribution.
(
Fig. 40
). Japanese endemic.
Japan
(Hokkaido, Honshu) (
Sugi 1982
).