A revision of the genus Lophomilia Warren, 1913 with description of four new species from East Asia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Hypeninae)
Author
Kononenko, Vladimir
Author
Behounek, Gottfried
text
Zootaxa
2009
1989
1
22
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.274658
46304791-8416-4224-84fc-5dbf54df8a87
1175-5326
274658
Lophomilia rustica
Kononenko & Behounek
sp. n.
(
Figs. 11, 12
,
30
,
45
)
Type
material.
Holotype
:
CHINA
, male, Kuling Kiangsu (H. Höne leg.), prep. 2086
ZFMK
, coll.
ZFMK
.
Paratypes
:
1 female
, Lungtang b. Nanking, Prov. Kiangsu
19.vi.1933
(H. Höne leg.), prep. 2087
ZFMK
;
4 female
, Hoengshan, Prov. Hunan, 9,
16
.vi,
27.viii.1933
(H. Höne leg.);
5 female
,
1 male
with prep. 5959 Berio, Ost Tien-mu-shan, Prov. Chekiang
12.iv
(male),
13.vi.
,
2.vi.1931
(H. Höne leg.);
1 male
1 female
, Lungtang b. Nanking, Prov. Kiangsu,
vi.1933
(H. Höne leg.), coll.
ZFMK
. The
type
series of
L. rustica
, including the
holotype
, is in Zoological Institute and Museum Alexander Koenig (
ZFMK
), Bonn,
Germany
.
Diagnosis.
The new species belongs to the
L. polybapta
species group but can be recognized by its pointed forewing with a deep incision before the apex. The wing coloration, unlike related species, is uniform rusty reddish-brown, slightly paler in basal part; wing pattern expressed by dark lines. In the female genitalia the species differs by having a moderately wide, funnel-shaped antrum with a deep central incision.
Description.
Adult (
Figs. 11, 12
). Wingspan
26–28 mm
. Forewing with deep incision before pointed apex. Ground color of forewing uniform rusty reddish-brown; basal line hardly traceable. Antemedial line brown, more distinct in dorsal part of wing, weakly traceable and diffused in costal part; postmedial line arises on dorsum as black, oblique bar, narrowing to thin line beyond Cu1 and extending to costa, bordered inside by dark brown suffusion, and outside by thin pale-brown line and brown suffusion; orbicular expressed as small black dot, reniform hardly traceable as pale spot; subterminal line diffuse, dentate, broken; terminal field with dark suffusion in apical part; cilia rusty-brown. Hindwing greyish-brown, slightly darker in terminal part, with weakly traceable diffused discal spot and blackish tornal spot; cilia yellowish-grey.
Male genitalia
(
Fig. 30
). Uncus relatively thin, sickle-like, curved; tegumen higher than vinculum; juxta three-lobed; valva moderately long, with parallel margins; transtilla weak; costa well developed, in apical part separated from membranous valva; editum well expressed; clasper-harpe complex lies in longitudinal position, fused with costa, clasper with elongate sclerotized basal plate, harpe not expressed; sacculus small, sclerotised, with moderate flattened, stick-like extension, longer than half of valva; apical part of valva membranous, rounded, lobe-like; aedeagus relatively thin, moderate, with well expressed coecum, vesica large, bulbous, with three wide diverticula, with small patch of cornuti.
Female genitalia
(
Fig. 45
). Ovipositor short, rather wide, papillae anales moderate, apophyses anteriores shorter than posterior ones, small, thin; antrum small, rather wide, funnel like; ductus bursae short, wide, flattened, sclerotized, in the region where it is joining with antrum membranous; corpus bursae rounded, elongate, with small signum in bottom part.
Distribution and biology.
(
Fig. 54
). East and South
China
. Probably multivoltine, adults collected from April to end of August. The larva and foodplant are unknown.
Etymology.
The name refers to the rusty reddish-brown coloration of the forewing.