New records of five species of Lepidoptera (Cosmopterigidae, Tortricidae, Pyralidae and Erebidae) from sand-dunes along the western coastline of Korea
Author
Sohn, Jae-Cheon
text
Journal of Species Research
2022
11
1
61
66
journal article
10.12651/JSR.2022.11.1.061
2713-8615
13140191
Cosmopterix flavidella
Kuroko, 2011
남ḏḅ날fflä나ḏ
(
Figs. 1A
,
2C
)
Cosmopterix flavidella
Kuroko, 2011: 107
.
Type
locality:
Japan
,
Kyushu
,
Iriomote Isl.
,
Uehara
.
Description
(
Fig. 1A
). Head with vertex dark grayish brown, with white streaks medially and laterally; labial palpus dark brown dorsally, white ventrally; antenna as long as forewing, pale grayish brown, partly intermixed with dark-brown scales. Thorax with tegula dark grayish brown, with white streaks laterally; mesonotum dark grayish brown, with white streak medially. Forewing length
3.4
-
5.1 mm
, dark grayish brown, with two short and three long, transverse, white streaks in basal 2/3; discal spot small, black; distal 1/3 pale orange with two silvery-white longitudinal fasciae medially and along posterior margin; terminal line transverse, white; cilia pale grayish brown. Hindwing and cilia pale grayish brown. Male genitalia (
Fig. 2C
) with right arm of uncus elongate, dilated in shoe-shape apically; anellus lobe narrow in basal half, broad, falcate and setose in distal half; valva broadened to apex, short-setose; costa upcurved in distal 1/3; phallus stout, broadened to base, open dorsally.
Material examined.
6♂
,
Chungcheongnam-do
,
Seocheongun
,
Seo-myeon
,
Sinhap-ri
sand-dunes (
N36°08
ʹ
47.6
ʺ
,
E126°32
ʹ
33.6
ʺ
),
20 August 2020
(
JC Sohn
),
GJUE
&
NIBR
.
2♂
,
Jeollanam-do
,
Sinan-gun
,
Is. Jaeundo
,
Jaeun-myeon
,
Gojang-ri
,
Oegi
sand-dunes (
N34°53
ʹ
44.5
ʺ
,
E126°00
ʹ
27.4
ʺ
),
16 July 2017
(
JC Sohn
), [
GSN
] SJC-1254,
GJUE
.
Distribution.
Korea
(new record),
Japan
,
Taiwan
,
China
(
Jiangxi
).
Host plants.
Poaceae
-
Saccharum kanashiroi
(Ohwi) Ohwi (
Kuroko, 2011
)
.
Remarks.
Kuroko (2015)
assigned this species to the
coryphaea
species-group in the genus
Cosmopterix
. This species seems to occur in various
types
of habitats including sand-dunes.