Review of the genus Meganola Dyar, 1898 (Lepidoptera: Nolidae, Nolinae) from Korea, with the description of a new species
Author
Cha, Yeong-Bin
Author
Oh, Sung-Hwan
Author
Bayarsaikhan, Ulziijargal
Author
Na, Sol-Moon
Author
Lee, Dong-June
Author
Ko, Jae-Ho
Author
Lee, Tak-Gi
Author
Kim, Hyeong-Kyu
Author
Jang, Chang-Moon
Author
Bae, Yang-Seop
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-10-15
4686
2
215
240
journal article
25231
10.11646/zootaxa.4686.2.3
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Meganola costalis
(
Staudinger, 1887
)
(
Figs 6
,
18
,
29
)
Nola costalis
Staudinger, 1887: 179–180
. TL:
Russia
(
Amur
, Ussuri, Askold).
Roeselia melanocosta
Inoue, 1961: 683
.
Roeselia costalis
:
Hampson, 1900: 68
;
Choi, 2006: 187–188
.
Rhynchopalpus costalis
:
Tshistjakov, 2008: 14–15
.
Meganola costalis
:
Inoue, 1982: 666
;
Oh, 1991: 75–77
[unpublished];
Sohn, 2005: 84–85
;
Sasaki, 2011: 179
.
Diagnosis.
This species is similar to
M. strigulosa
(
Staudinger, 1887
)
but can be distinguished from it by the following characters: forewing ground color gray; dark brown basal and costal patch; dark brown medial and postmedial lines waved in outer line near costa; male genitalia with pseudouncus tumescent at middle part; harpe short, bowlshaped, without dentation. saccus almost half-length of valva; aedeagus sclerotized, slender, with a cornutus; female genitalia with ostium bursae sclerotized, curved; ductus bursae membranous, curved, half-length of ostium bursae; corpus bursae ovoid, with two triangular signa, posterior signum two-thirds length than anterior.
Redescription.
Adult
(
Figs 6
). Wingspan
15–20 mm
in both sexes. Head and thorax gray in both sexes. Ground color of forewing pale gray in both sexes, with dark brown basal patch in half of costal margin; dark brown antemedial line waved in inner line near dorsal; dark brown medial and postmedial lines waved in outer line near costa; brown subterminal line waved; cilia gray, mixed with white scales. Ground color of hindwing dark brown; cilia dark brown in both sexes.
Male genitalia
(
Fig 18
). Pseudouncus tapering, tumescent at median, apical pointed, weakly covered with setae, subscaphium present. Tegumen triangular, tumescent from below. Valva broadly to the apex; costal margin of valva sclerotized, slightly curved inwardly. Harpe short, bowl-shaped. Saccus short and V-shaped. Aedeagus slender, with a cornutus.
Female genitalia
(
Fig 29
). Apophyses posteriores 1.5 times longer than anteriores. Ostium bursae sclerotized, curved. Ductus bursae partly sclerotized, curved, membranous near corpus bursae, twice length than ostium bursae. Corpus bursae ovoid, with two triangular signa, posterior signum two-thirds length than anterior.
Material examined.
(
1♂
,
1♀
)
1♂
,
GW
,
Temp. Baekdamsa
,
Injae
,
9. VII. 2003
(Y.S.
Bae
,
B.W. Lee
,
Y.G. Kim
and
Y.J. Song
),
Gen. Slide No.
INU-9124;
[
Heo
]
1♀
,
JN
,
Mt. Cheongwan-san
,
Jangheong
,
26. V. 2018
(
U. H. Heo
),
ex
Pourthiaea villosa
, emerged
15.
VI
. 2018
,
Gen. Slide No.
INU-9154
.
Distribution.
Korea
(GW, JN),
Japan
,
China
(Northeast),
Russia
(Far East).
Hostplants.
Korea
:
Pourthiaea villosa
new record
(
Rosaceae
).
Malus baccata
(Rosaceae)
, (
Heo, 2016
).
Japan
:
Prunus incisa
(Rosaceae)
, (
Inoue, 1982
). Genus
malus
spp.,
Sorbus
spp. (
Rosaceae
), (Sugi, 1987).
Remarks.
Sohn (2005)
first reported this species from Jindo Island,
Korea
, based on two females. Male specimen was first recorded from
Korea
by Kononenko and Han (2007), based on Dr. Oh’s doctoral thesis.