A review of the genus Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892 from China, with description of 6 new species and 7 new records for China (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Bryophilinae)
Author
Han, H. L.
School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, CH- 150014 China. E-mail: hanhuilin @ yahoo. com. cn Laboratory of Entomology, Institute of Biology and Soil Science Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RF- 690022 Vladivostok, Russia. E-mail: kononenko @ ibss. dvo. ru Corresponding author
Author
Kononenko, V. S.
text
Zootaxa
2009
2009-10-20
2268
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https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2268.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2268.1.1
1175-5326
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Stenoloba viridimicta
Hampson, 1910
(
Figs. 11
,
26
)
Stenoloba viridimicta
Hampson, 1910
,
Catalogue
of the
Lepidoptera Phalaenae
in the
British Museum
10: 369, Pl. 159: 31. Type locality:
India
,
Meghalaya
.
Holotype
: male, deposited in BMNH, London.
Kononenko, Ronkay, 2001
,
Insecta Koreana
18(2): 97.
Material examined.
1male
, Prov.
Yunnan
,
Jiangcheng
,
15–17.ix.2008
(coll.
H.L. Han
&
M.J. Qi
)
.
Diagnosis.
Stenoloba viridimicta
(
Fig. 11
) can be separated from
S. chlolographa
Kononenko & Ronkay, 2001
described from
Nepal
by larger size, robust body, and large thoracic tuft, narrow, rather long forewing with parallel costal and inner margins. Ground colour of forewing shiny, dark, brown grey mixed with somewhat bluish-grey and vivid green scales. Lower part of basal line sharply defined, white and blackish, upper part hardly traceable, base of wing and costal area brilliant mossy-green; antemedial line rather diffuse, orbicular spot hardly traceable, reniform stigma marked with dark dot and a more fine ochreous-yellow dots; claviform stigma substituted by black streak running from basal to antemedial line; costal area defined by thin long black streak running from medial field to outer margin of wing. In male genitalia (
Fig. 26
) uncus rudimental, tegumen high, narrow; juxta deltoid, apically extended; valva long, wide at base, strongly tapered apically, with patch of small spines in the apex. Aedeagus large, vesica large, globular, with small diverticulum in distal part, armed with short small cornutus; medial part with longitudinal sclerotized crispate ribbon and with small, sparse field of cornuti. Female unknown. This rare species had been known from only a few specimens from North
India
. The record in South West
China
significantly extends its known distribution.
Distribution.
North
India
, South West
China
(Prov.
Yunnan
, first record).