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
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1175-5326
274658
Lophomilia albicosta
Yoshimoto, 1995
(
Figs. 18
,
35
)
Lophomilia albicosta
Yoshimoto, 1995
,
Moths of
Nepal
.
Tinea
, 14 (Supplement 2): 74, Pl. 116: 11. Type-locality:
Nepal
, Pulchouki Mt.
Holotype
: male, preserved in NSM, Tokyo.
Material examined.
CHINA
:
1 male
, “Tapaishan im Tsiling Sued Shansi Ca.
1700 m
,
29.vi.1936
(H. Höne leg.)”, prep. 2093
ZFMK
VK
. Coll.
ZFMK
;
type
series in the collection of
NSM
(Tokyo).
Diagnosis.
Lophomilia albicosta
(
Fig. 18
) can be recognized by the dark brownish-grey forewing with darker streaks between veins in submedial field; wingpattern expressed by contrasting wide yellowish-cream band along costa and one wide cream area with brown transversal postmedial line. Wingspan
28–29 mm
. In male genitalia (
Fig. 35
) all structures slender, uncus short, pointed, juxta narrow, deeply cleft basally, wide and plate-like medially; valva with parallel costal and ventral margins; costa not separated from membranous valva; sacculus small, saccular extension thin and weak; clasper fused with costa at the base, directed longitudinally; harpe thin, weak, slightly curved at apex. Aedeagus rather thin, with long coecum; vesica bulbous, with two diverticula, one armed with a patch of short cornuti. Female not examined.
Distribution and Biology.
(
Fig. 57
). Cental
Nepal
, Central
China
. The
type
specimens were collected in April (
4.iv.1992
), June (
29.vi.1936
) and August (
17.viii.1991
) at elevations of
1000–1300 m
in the Godavari village and Mt. Phulchouki near Kathmandu. Probably bivoltine, with adults occuring in hillside forest. The species is reported here from
China
for the first time.