Ovipennis (Coccinigripennis) lisu, a new species from China (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini)
Author
Huang, Si-Yao
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China. E-mail: huangsiyao 2007 @ aliyun. com
Author
Volynkin, Anton V.
Altai State University, Lenina Av. 61, RF- 656049, Barnaul, Russia. & National Research Tomsk State University, Lenina Av., 36, RF- 634050, Tomsk, Russia. * Corresponding author: E-mail: monstruncusarctia @ gmail. com
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Ecologica Montenegrina
2020
2020-12-13
38
147
150
http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2020.38.21
journal article
10.37828/em.2020.38.21
2336-9744
13232209
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1F6BCB21-F9A0-4545-8237-77EB5F4EE968
Ovipennis
(
Coccinigripennis
)
lisu
Huang & Volynkin
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs 1
,
5
)
Type material.
Holotype
(
Figs 1
,
5
): male, “
16.VII.2018
,
Pianma Town
, Lushui City, Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture,
Yunnan Province
, leg.
Si-yao Huang
” [in Chinese], gen. prep. in glycerol by Huang (
SCAU
).
Diagnosis
. The new species is identical externally to
O. fansipana
and can be distinguished by the examination of genitalia structures only. The male genital capsule of
O. lisu
is very similar to that of
O. fansipana
but differs by the somewhat smaller transtillar process and the broader distal saccular process. The aedeagus of the new species is narrower than in
O. fansipana
and slightly S-like curved, whereas it is nearly straight in
O. fansipana
. The vesica of
O. lisu
is conspicuously narrower than in
O. fansipana
, bears much smaller medial diverticula and two clusters of numerous small spine-like cornuti, whereas in
O. fansipana
there is only one cluster on the tip of a lateral diverticulum. Additionally, the distal ventral diverticulum of the new species is markedly shorter and narrower than that of
O. fansipana
and bears much smaller cluster of weaker cornuti.
Description
.
External morphology of the male
(
Fig. 1
). Forewing length 12.8 mm in
holotype
. Antenna ciliate. Head and thorax pale red, abdomen dark brown. Forewing broad with elongated and rounded apex. Forewing ground color crimson. Pattern consisting of a narrow longitudinal trigonal black strip along vein Cu, reaching wing margin between M
1
and M
2
and narrowed distally, and two short and thin additional strips subapically on veins R
5
and M
1
. Cilia crimson. Hind wing dark brown. Cilia dark brown.
Male genitalia
(
Fig. 5
). Uncus long, narrow, laterally flattened, apically pointed, C-like curved. Tuba analis with weakly setose cluster in subscaphial area. Tegumen short and moderately broad; vinculum large, U-like; juxta shield-like, weakly sclerotized. Valva narrow, elongated. Costa moderately sclerotized, slightly S-like curved, with strongly sclerotized trigonal distal process directed dorsally. Medial costal process reduced, tiny, triangular. Transtillar process tubercle-like, swollen, heavily setose. Distal membranous lobe of valva short, wide and rounded. Sacculus strongly setose dorsad, with large, strongly setose, apically dilated distal process curved dorsally. Aedeagus short, broad, slightly S-like curved; vesica with few short membranous diverticula medially, one long tubular distal ventral diverticulum bearing several small spine-like cornuti at the distal end, and two clusters of numerous small spine-like cornuti medially.
Figures 1–4.
Ovipennis
spp.
: adults. Depositories of the specimens: 1, 3 and 4 in SCAU; 2 in MWM/ZSM.
Distribution
. The species is currently known only from its
type
locality in the province of
Yunnan
,
Southwestern
China
.
Figures 5–8.
Ovipennis
spp.
: male genitalia. Depositories of the specimens: 5, 6 and 8 in SCAU; 7 in MWM/ZSM.
Etymology
. The species is named after the local Lisu people in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous
Prefecture of the
Yunnan Province
.