Contribution to the knowledge on the Palaearctic and Oriental taxa of the Meganola s. l. (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Nolidae, Nolinae) generic complex with descriptions of 4 new genera and 11 new species
Author
László, Gyula M.
Author
Ronkay, Gábor
Author
Ronkay, László
text
Zootaxa
2015
4052
2
251
296
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4052.3.1
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1175-5326
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Maculonola dolokmerangirensis
sp. n.
(Plate 6,
Fig. 8
; gen. fig. 42)
Holotype
. Male, [
Indonesia
] Sumatra, Dolok Merangir,
3.IX.1980
, leg. Dr. Diehl, slide No.: LGN 2023 (coll.
HNHM
).
Diagnosis
. The new species is a twin species of
M. apiensis
with easily recognisable external and genital features which are as follows: The forewing ground colour of
M. dolokmerangiri
is somewhat paler with more brownish shine (
M. apiensis
is more greyish); the forewing patches of the new species are more blurred, except the large one at the ventral margin, which is larger and more sharply defined than in
M. apiensis
.
In the male genitalia, the new species (gen. fig. 42) has, compared with
M. apiensis
(gen. fig. 41), slighly narrower valva, fully truncate harpe (that of
M. apiensis
has short, pointed apical process arising at distal margin) and much longer basal costal process. The aedeagus of the two species are rather similar, but the short coecum penis is quadrangular in the new species, and rounded in
M. apiensis
.
Female unknown.