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Periacma acriuncata Wang, Li & Liu 2001

  • 1. College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China.

Description

Periacma acriuncata Wang, Li & Liu, 2001

(Figs 1, 33)

Periacma acriuncta Wang, Li & Liu, 2001: 272. TL: China (Sichuan). TD: NKU.

Material examined. CHINA, Sichuan: Holotype ♂, Mt. Qingcheng (30º58′N, 103º31′E), 11.VII.1980, slide No. W 98370.

Additional material. Hunan: 1♂ 1♀, Xiangshanjiang, Mt. Shunhuang, Xinning County, 921 m, 7.VIII.2020, leg. H Sun et al., slide Nos. XZX20716♂, XZX20717 ♀; Sichuan: 2♂, Mt. Qingcheng, Dujiangyan, 860 m, 9‒ 10.VII.2021, leg. S Yu et al.,slide No. XZX20494, XZX20528.

Description. Adult (Fig. 1). Female wingspan 21.5 mm. Labial palpus yellow, second segment with blackish grey scales on outer surface, third segment with black scales on ventral surface. Other characters same as in male.

Female genitalia (Fig. 33). Papilla anale bell-shaped, with long setae. Apophysis posterioris about twice as long as apophysis anterioris. Eighth sternal plate concave at middle on posterior margin, forming two setose posterior lobes. Lamella antevaginalis greatly widened, produced into narrow triangular process extending obliquely backward posterolaterally. Antrum short, narrower than ductus bursae. Ductus bursae slightly longer than antrum, wrinkled, weakly sclerotized posteriorly. Corpus bursae ovoid; signum being a small, sub-circular plate bearing two large spines and several teeth.

Distribution. China (Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan).

Note. The female of this species is here described for the first time.

Notes

Published as part of Wang, Shuxia & Xu, Zhixin, 2024, Taxonomy of the genus Periacma Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Autostichidae) from China, with a checklist of the world species, pp. 101-129 in Zootaxa 5399 (2) on pages 102-103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10493947

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
1980-07-11 , 2020-08-07 , 2021-07-09
Verbatim event date
1980-07-11 , 2020-08-07 , 2021-07-09/10
Scientific name authorship
Wang, Li & Liu
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Autostichidae
Genus
Periacma
Species
acriuncata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Periacma acriuncata Wang, 2001 sec. Wang & Xu, 2024

References

  • Wang, S. X., Li, H. H. & Liu, Y. Q. (2001) Nine new species and two new records of the genus Periacma Meyrick from China (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 26 (3), 266 - 277.