Taxonomic composition and monophyly of the genus Magnificus (Lepidoptera Hepialoidea: Hepialidae) Author Grehan, John R. Research Associate, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA Author Mielke, Carlos G. C. Caixa Postal 1206, 84.145 ‾ 000 Carambeí, Paraná, Brazil Author Minet, Joël 0000-0002-4404-1635 Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (ISYEB, UMR 7205), Entomologie, 45, rue Buffon, F- 75005 Paris, France minet @ mnhn. fr; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4404 - 1635 minet@mnhn.fr Author Ignatev, Nikolai Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Science, České Budějovice, The Czech Republic; Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic Author Buchsbaum, Ulf Zoologische Staatssammlung M ̡ nchen, M ̡ nchhausenstrasse 21, D- 81247 M ̡ nchen, Germany Author Xue, Dayong 0000-0002-4404-1635 Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101 China xuedy @ ioz. ac. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4404 - 1635 xuedy@ioz.ac.cn text Zootaxa 2021 2021-01-29 4920 3 339 358 journal article 8332 10.11646/zootaxa.4920.3.2 42a1a8bc-7979-4354-925e-9c8604ce1c7d 1175-5326 4478051 DDB87C26-2371-4F1C-BCE5-339C5FA5B6AC Magnificus zhiduoensis Yan, 2000 ( Figs. 6 , 19 ) Magnificus zhiduoensis Yan (2000: 3) .— Wang & Yao (2011: 4) Reference material. Holotype ♀ , GAAH : China , Qinghai , Zhiduo , Deer farm, 4,400–4,600m , 22.VII.1996 . Three paratypes , same location and date as holotype ( Fig. 6 ). Original description ( Yan 2000 ). “Wingspan male: 45 mm female 53 mm . Labial palps two segmented on left and single segment on right [probably an aberration]; FW outer band with white reaching posterior margin; veins R2 and R3 shorter than stalk vein. Male HW anterior to medial cell and veins brown and grey, remainder white, and white patch at apical angle. Female HW brown and grey. Dorsal plate of female genitalia with medial V-shaped notch, subanal plate narrow and rectangular, antevaginalis dorsal margin with shallow points either side of shallow medial concavity, ventral margin medially broad and smooth, lateral angles narrow and lightly sclerotized.” FIGURES 24–29. 24–27, Male genitalia of some northern Eurasian Hepialidae : (a—ventral view, b—pseudotegumen posteriodorsal view, c, lateral view); 24, Hepialus humuli M153; 25, Zenophassus schamyl M134, JRGC; 26, Triodia sylvina M158, JRGC; 27, Pharmacis spp. (a, b) P. bertrandi M156 a—ventral view, b—posterio-dorsal view, (c) P. cantabricus , ventral view (photos 24–26 by John Grehan, 27a-b by Carlos Mielke, 27c by Axel Kallies); 28, Sthenopis pretiosus M179: (a) ventral, (b) lateral (apex of pseudoteguminal arm behind valva), JRGC; 29, Sternum II in some northern Eurasian and North American Hepialidae , (a) Hepialus humuli M153, (b) Zenophassus schamyl M132, (c) Triodia sylvina M158, (d) Pharmacis bertrandi M156, (e) Sthenopis pretiosus M179, (f) Sthenopis purpurascens M119. Photos by John Grehan. Etymology. Presumably derived from Zhiduo, the name of the type locality. Remarks. Considered by Yan (2000) to be similar in appearance to M. jiuzhiensis where the posterior margin of the dorsal plate is dorsally broad ( Fig. 17 ) whereas the central notch in M. zhiduoensis ( Fig. 19 ) is narrowly triangular. The FW pattern ( Fig. 30h ) cannot be definitively distinguished from M. jiuzhiensis in the low-resolution image in Yan (2000) .