Aoshakuna lucia subsp. lucia Thierry-Mieg, comb. n.
Creators
Description
Aoshakuna lucia lucia (Thierry-Mieg), comb. n.
(Figs. 6, 7)
Gelasma lucia Thierry-Mieg, 1916, Miscell. ent. 23: 51. Holotype: ɗ (MNHN), Japan.
Gelasma lucia: Prout, 1935: 13.
Nipponogelasma lucia: Inoue, 1986: 48; Viidalepp, 1996: 62 (in part); Parsons et al., 1999: 645; Beljaev, 2001: 4; Kim et al., 2001: pl. 21: 7.
Aoshakuna sachalinensis Matsumura, 1925, J. Coll. Agric. Hokkaido Imp. Univ. 15: 156, pl.11, fig. 28, syn. n. Holotype: Ψ (EIHU), Russia: Sakhalin, "Kawakami" [Sinegorsk].
Chlorissa sachalinensis: Prout, 1935: 15.
Aoshakuna sachalinensis: Sato, 2001: 119, fig. 2.
Gelasma immunis Prout, 1930, Novit. zool. 35: 293. Holotype: ɗ (BMNH), Japan: Takao–San.
Gelasma immunis: Prout, 1935: 13, pl. 2g.
Nipponogelasma immunis: Inoue, 1946a: 1; Inoue, 1956: 228; Inoue, 1961: 58, text figs 128–131, pl. 5: 106, 107; Viidalepp, 1976: 845 (part); Inoue, 1977: 235; Inoue, 1982: 436, pl. 59: 19, Cat. 2210.
Diagnosis. Length of forewing 12–15 mm (Inoue, 1961). Labial palpi in the male are approximately as long as diameter of compound eye, with short third segment; in the female they are similar to the male, but the third segment is twice as long, about the same length as the second segment. Wings are olive-green, easily faded, and the fringe is whitish. The transverse lines are white, narrow, gently arched, slightly wavy or almost smooth, and along the medial side bordered with green darker than the ground colour.
Male genitalia (Figs 12–14). The dorsal process on the valva is wide and flattened, the valvula have a narrow arcuate sclerite medially, with a posterior flaplike dilation on the right valva. The aedeagus has numerous spinules on the apex on the right and a strong scobinate thorn on the left.
Female genitalia (Fig. 18). The postvaginal plate is asymmetric: the left half sharply angled anteriorly, the right half longitudinally shortened, truncate anteriorly, and U-shaped.
Material. Russia: 1 ɗ, "Saghalien, Cent. Exp. Sta. [Uzhno-Sakhalinsk], 12/VIII [19]24, Mihami NayoShi"; 1 Ψ, Saghalien, Makarovskii distr., 6 km N of Makarov, foothills of Makarova mountain, 48°40'42" N, 142°46'55" E, 110 m above sea level, 25.VII.2000 (A. Propletkin leg.). IBSS. Other material is listed below in the description of a new subspecies.
Distribution. Russia (Sakhalin, S Kuriles) (Fig. 20), Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku).
Host plants. Pinaceae: Abies sachalinensis (Nakajima & Sato, 1979).
Notes. Specimens of Aoshakuna lucia from the continental part of the Russian Far East differ somewhat from specimens of the nominotypical form and are described below as separate subspecies.
Other
Published as part of Beljaev, Eugene A., 2007, Taxonomic changes in the emerald moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Geometrinae) of East Asia, with notes on the systematics and phylogeny of Hemitheini, pp. 55-68 in Zootaxa 1584 on pages 61-62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178403Files
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Geometridae
- Genus
- Aoshakuna
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Thierry-Mieg
- Species
- lucia
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
References
- Thierry-Mieg, P. (1916) Descriptions de Lepidopteres nouveaux. Miscellanea Entomologica, 23, 41 - 52.
- Inoue, H. (1986) Descriptions and records of some Japanese Geometridae (VI). Tinea, 12 (7), 45 - 71.
- Viidalepp, J. (1996) Checklist of the Geometridae (Lepidoptera) of the former U. S. S. R. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 111 pp.
- Parsons, M. S., Scoble, M. J., Honey, M. R., Pitkin, L. M. & Pitkin, B. R. (1999) The catalogue. In Scoble, M. J. (ed.), Geometrid moths of the world: a catalogue (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). The Natural History Museum, London, CSIRO Publishing, Apollo Books, Collingwood / Australia, Stenstrup / Denmark, 1016 pp.
- Kim S. S., Beljaev E. A. & Oh, S. H. (2001) Illustrated catalogue of Geometridae in Korea (Lepidoptera, Geometrinae, Ennominae). In Park, K. T. (ed.), Insects of Korea, ser. 8, 278 pp.
- Matsumura, S. (1925) An enumeration of the butterflies and moths from Saghalien, with descriptions of new species and subspecies. Journal of the College of Agriculture, Hokkaido Imperial University, 15, 83 - 196, pls 8 - 11.
- Sato, R. (2001) Type specimens of the Geometridae (Lepidoptra) described by Matsumura in the Hokkaido University Collection, Japan. Insecta Matsumurana (new series), 58, 115 - 138.
- Prout, L. B. (1930) On the Japanese Geometridae of the Aigner collection. Novitates Zoologicae, 35, 289 - 337.
- Inoue, H. (1946 a) Notes on some Geometridae of Japan, Corea and Saghalien. Bulletin of the Lepidoptera Society of Japan, 1 (1), 1 - 17.
- Inoue, H. (1956) Check List of Lepidoptera of Japan, pt. 3: Geometridae. Rikusuisha, Tokyo, pp. 219 - 364.
- Inoue, H. (1961) Lepidoptera: Geometridae (1). Insecta Japonica, ser. 1, pt. 4. Hokuryukan, Tokyo, 106 pp., 7 pls.
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- Inoue, H. (1982) Geometridae. In Inoue, H., Sugi, S., Kuroko, H., Motiuti S., & Kawabe, A. (eds.), Moths of Japan. Kodansha, Tokyo, vol. 1, 425 - 573, vol. 2, 263 - 310, pls. 55 - 108, 228 - 229, 232, 277, 314 - 344.
- Nakajima, H. & Sato, R. (1979) A list of the food - plants of the Japanese Geometridae. II. Archiearinae, Oenochrominae and Geometrinae. Japan Heterocerists' Journal, 100, 663 - 680.