Review of the genus Prays Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Praydidae) from China, with descriptions of twelve new species
Author
Cong, Peixin
Author
Li, Houhun
text
Zootaxa
2017
4263
2
201
227
journal article
33090
10.11646/zootaxa.4263.2.1
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Prays kalligraphos
Sohn
et
Wu, 2011
(
Figs. 9
,
39
)
Prays kalligraphos
Sohn
et
Wu, 2011
: 28
. TL:
China
(
Sichuan
). TD:
IZCAS
.
Material
examined.
CHINA
:
Yunnan Province
:
1 ♀
,
Mt. Weibao
,
Dali
,
2205 m
,
3.VIII.2014
, coll.
Kaijian Teng
et al
., genitalia slide
No.
CPX15214
;
1 ♀
,
Xiaoheishan Nature Reserves
,
Longling
,
1974 m
,
28.VII.2015
, coll.
Kaijian Teng
and
Xia Bai
, genitalia slide
No.
CPX15165
.
Diagnosis.
Adult (
Fig. 9
) with wingspan 13.0 mm. This species is characterized by the female genitalia with the eighth sternite narrowed medially on the anterior margin and protruded in semicircle laterally (
Fig. 39
).
Prays kalligraphos
is similar to
P
.
iota
Moriuti,
1977
in the female genitalia, but it differs in the signum with posterior half concave triangularly, and the lamella postvaginalis about half the length of the eighth sternite. In the latter species, the signum is concave roundly in posterior half, and the lamella postvaginalis is about 1/3 the length of the eighth sternite (
Moriuti, 1977: Plate XLVIII, fig. 405
).
Distribution.
China
(
Sichuan
,
Yunnan
).
Remarks.
Sohn & Wu (2011)
described this species based on one female specimen from
China
(
Sichuan
), and pointed out the absence of the apophyses anteriores in the female genitalia. We found females from
Yunnan
that have extremely short apophyses anteriores.