Taxonomic review of the subfamily Schoenobiinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) from China
Author
Chen, Fu-Qiang
Author
Wu, Chun-Sheng
text
Zoological Systematics
2014
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2
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http://zoobank.org/eed31956-bf31-4dc1-aa6a-ab349ebfc756
journal article
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10.11865/zs20140201
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2095-6827
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3.5
Niphadoses
Common, 1960
(
Figs 5
,
77
,
87–88
,
102
)
Niphadoses
Common, 1960
.
Austr. J. Zool.
, 8(2): 330.
Type
species:
Niphadoses palleucus
Common, 1960
, by original designation.
Diagnosis. The genus can be diagnosed by valva constricted from base to apex and gnathos obviously short.
Description. Head with frons little protruded; proboscis reduced; antennae weakly serrated in male and filiform in female; labial palpi porrect, the third segment about 1/3 as long as the second; maxillary palpi porrect, apex expanded. Female with anal tuft on the seventh abdominal segment.
Wings (
Fig. 5
). Forewing with Sc and R
1
closed or anastomosed; R
2
from upper angle of cell, closed to R
3+4
; R
3
stalked with R
4
, from upper angle of cell; R
5
from upper angle of cell; M
1
below upper angle of cell; M
2
and M
3
from lower angle of cell; Cu
1
and Cu
2
before lower angle of cell. Hindwing with Sc+R
1
and Rs stalked, more or less stalked with M
1
at base; M
2
and M
3
from lower angle of cell; Cu
1
and Cu
2
before lower angle of cell.
Male genitalia. Uncus with base broad and apex pointed; gnathos thin and short, with apex pointed; tegumen well developed, with sclerotized dorsal ridge X-shaped; subteguminal process well developed, little sclerotized; valva constricted from base to apex; juxta plate-like, apex curved in the central; coremata present; aedeagus slender, cornutus present; ductus ejaculatorius arising from middle of aedeagus.
Female genitalia. Anal papillae broad, covered with long setae; apophyses anterioris and posterioris slender; ostium bursae broad, membranous, wrinkled; ductus bursae membranous, relatively short, no longer than corpus bursae; ductus seminalis arising below ostium bursae; corpus bursae usually round.
Distribution.
China
,
Australia
, New
Guinea
.
Remarks. The genus comprises five species, including one species from
China
.