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.
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Zootaxa
2009
2009-10-20
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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 benedeki
Ronkay, 2001
(
Figs. 6
,
29
)
Stenoloba benedeki
Ronkay, 2001
,
Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationals Hungarici
. 93: 226, fig. 4–5, Type locality: N
Vietnam
, Mt. Fan-si-pan,
Chapa
,
1600–1800m
,
Holotype
: male, preserved in HNHM, Budapest.
Material examined.
1 male
,
China
, Prov.
Shaanxi
West
Tien-mu-shan Mts.,
30.iv.1932
(
H. Höne
)
.
Diagnosis.
The species (
Fig. 6
) is characterized by pale olive-green forewing coloration and wing pattern with distinct basal line and dentate, somewhat diffused antemedial line; subterminal line diffused. In male genitalia (
Fig. 29
) uncus developed, flat; valva relatively narrow, with sclerotized bar of clasper, armed on the apex with few short spines. Female genitalia described by
Ronkay (2001)
.
S. benedeki
with its allies
S. olivacea
Kononenko & Ronkay, 2000
and
S. futii
Kononenko & Ronkay, 2000
form a group of species. The last two have not yet been found in
China
. Our record of
S. benedeki
in an old collection from Prov.
Shaanxi
significantly extends the distribution of the species northwards.
Distribution.
Central
China
(Prov.
Shaanxi
, first record), North
Vietnam
.