Macrobathra nomaea Meyrick 1914
Authors/Creators
- 1. Hanam Techno Valley U 1 Center Building, Hanam 12982, Republic of Korea.
- 2. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg 199034, Russia.
- 3. Bong-Kyu Byun, Department of Biological Science and Biotechnology, Hannam University, Daejeon 34054, Republic of Korea
Description
Macrobathra nomaea Meyrick, 1914
(Figure 3, 6, 6a, 7, 7a)
Macrobathra nomaea Meyrick, 1914: 217. Type locality: Ceylon, Colombo, Peradeniya. Type depository: NHMUK.
Material. KOREA: GG, 1#, Mt. Kalbong, 9 vii 2011, leg. B.W. Lee, genitalia slide no. HNUSEL-6192 (HNUSEL); 1#, Lake Yuklim, 16 vii 2015, leg. S.Y. Park, genitalia slide no. HNUSEL-5944 (KNAE); 1 f#, Lake Yuklim, 6 vii 2017, leg. Lee, Rho, Shin, Shon & Choi, genitalia slide no. HNUSEL-5943 (KNAE); 1 m #, Gwangju-si, 21 vi 2018, leg. B.K. Byun, genitalia slide no. HNUSEL-6497 (HNUSEL); CN, 1 f#, Mt. Yeonmi, 11 vii 2015, leg. B.K. Byun, genitalia slide no. HNUSEL-5968 (HNUSEL); US, 4 f#, Ulju-gun, 25 vii 2018, leg. B.K. Byun, genitalia slide nos. HNUSEL-5896, 5945, 5966, 5967 (HNUSEL); 2 f#, Ulju-gun, 25 vii 2018, leg. D.S. Kim, genitalia slide nos. HNUSEL-6503, 6504 (HNUSEL).
Description (Fig. 3). Wingspan 9–11 mm. Head covered with smooth yellowish scales.Antenna blackish brown; scape with scattered yellowish scales; flagellum with yellowish rings. Labial palpus long and curved upwards, yellowish, apex with dark brown scales. Thorax blackish brown. Legs dark brown with white rings. Forewing blackish brown; antemedian lemony cream line wide; three lemony cream dots at 1/2 and 5/6 of costal margin and 2/3 of dorsal margin; cilia whitish brown to dark brown. Hindwing pale fuscous; cilia pale brown. Abdomen shining dark fuscous.
Male genitalia (Fig. 6, 6a). Brachia elongated triangular, symmetrical and heavily sclerotized. Valvae short, asymmetrical, with few elongated setae; left valva shorter, thicker, and slightly more sclerotized. Vinculum slightly sclerotized. Saccus 2 times the length of the right valva, slender. Aedeagus thick and long, 2/3 the length of saccus.
Female genitalia (Fig. 7, 7a). Papillae anales long and rounded, setose. Sterigma long and parallel-sided, well sclerotized. Ductus bursae rather wide; ductus seminalis wide and short. Corpus bursae oval, with two symmetrical, hook-shaped and strongly sclerotized signa.
Distribution. Korea (new record), China (Zhang & Li 2023), Russia (Sinev 2019), Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Pakistan.
Biology. Bred from refuse lodged in a fork of Tamarindus indica (Fabaceae); no doubt the larva fed on the leaves as usual in the genus (Fletcher 1920). Probably can develop on other fabaceous plants as well.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- HNUSEL , KNAE
- Event date
- 2011-07-09 , 2015-07-11 , 2015-07-16 , 2017-07-06 , 2018-06-21 , 2018-07-25
- Verbatim event date
- 2011-07-09 , 2015-07-11 , 2015-07-16 , 2017-07-06 , 2018-06-21 , 2018-07-25
- Scientific name authorship
- Meyrick
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Cosmopterigidae
- Genus
- Macrobathra
- Species
- nomaea
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Macrobathra nomaea Meyrick, 1914 sec. Kim, Sinev & Byun, 2024
References
- Meyrick, E. (1914) n. k. In: Exotic Microlepidoptera, Marlborough. 1 (7). Printed by Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 193 - 224.
- Zhang, D. & Li, H. (2023) Review of the genus Macrobathra Meyrick, 1883 (Lepidoptera: Cosmopterigidae) in China. Zootaxa, 5330 (2), 227 - 246. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5330.2.3
- Sinev, S. Y. (2019) Cosmopterigidae. In: Sinev, S. Y. (Ed.) Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Russia. 2 nd Edition. Zoological Institute RAS, St. Petersburg, pp. 88 - 90.
- Fletcher, T. B. (1920) Life-histories of Indian insects. Microlepidoptera. IV. Cosmopterygidae, Oecophoridae, Physoptilidae, Xyloryctidae, Stenomidae and Orneodidae. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India. Entomological Series, 6 (4), 97 - 116. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 11098