The genus Idmon de Nicéville (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from China, with description of two new species
Author
Fan, Xiaoling
Author
Wang, Min
Author
Zeng, Ling
text
Zootaxa
2007
1510
57
62
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.273821
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1175-5326
273821
Idmon flavata
sp. nov.
Figs. 1–7
Holotype
: ♂, Yinggeling, Hainan,
China
,
2005-V-12
, leg. Liusheng Chen.
Paratypes
:
2♂
, same data as
holotype
. The
type
specimens are deposited in the Insect Collection of the South
China
Agricultural University (
SCAU
), Guangzhou.
Description
Male (
Figs. 1–2
). Forewing length
17 mm
, antenna length
11 mm
.
Antennae dark brown, longer than 1/2 of forewing costa, club yellow ventrally; palpi second segment erect, densely covered with long greyish white scales ventrally, third segment long and slender, distinctly protruding.
Wings upper surface with ground color dark brown, unmarked, cilia grey, without secondary sexual characters. Forewing underside ground color the same as that of upper surface, covered with yellow scales at apex and the end of cell. Hindwing underside yellow, costa and termen brown, veins yellow, with small black spots in the spaces Cu2 to Rs, the one in space Sc+R1 blurred.
FIGURES 1–2.
Idmon flavata
sp. nov.
(Scale = 10 mm) 1. Dorasal view, 2. Ventral view.
Male genitalia (
Figs. 3–7
). Uncus long, about twice longer than tegumen, deeply bifid at half distal portion, its two arms long and thin, running slightly outwardly; socius absent; gnathos well developed, elbowshaped, membranous and separated each other at tip; saccus rather long; valva simple, broad, with the distal upper portion shallowly bifid, forming the ampullar and the harpal processes, the ampullar process with upper margin slightly swelled, the harpal process with lower margin obviously convex, outer margin arched; aedeagus with subzonal sheath nearly as long as suprazonal sheath, and bifurcated distally; juxta U-shaped with lateral arms curved inwardly.
FIGURES 3–7.
Male genitalia of
Idmon flavata
sp. nov.
3. ring, lateral view, 4. tegumen, dorsal view, 5. valva, inner view, 6. aedeagus, 7. juxta.
Remark
The new species strikingly resembles
Idmon fujianana
(
Chou & Huang, 1994
)
, but can be easily distinguished by hindwing underside densely covered with yellow scales, as well as the clearly defined small black spots in spaces Cu2 to Rs, the one in space Sc+R1 indistinct; uncus with the two lateral arms not parallel each other; valva with the ampullar and harpal processes hardly connected at apex; juxta U-shaped with lateral arm curved inwardly.