Lecithocera chersitis Meyrick 1918
Authors/Creators
- 1. Entomological Laboratory, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Fukuoka, 819 - 0395 Japan.
- 2. Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima University, 1 - 21 - 24 Korimoto, Kagoshima, 890 - 0065 Japan. ysaka @ agri. kagoshima-u. ac. jp
- 3. Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Fukuoka, 819 - 0395 Japan. hirowat _ t @ agr. kyushu-u. ac. jp
Description
[Japanese name: Ookiiro-hosoba-higenaga-kibaga]
(Figs 1a–b, 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a)
Lecithocera chersitis Meyrick, 1918: 106; Clarke, 1965: 116; Gozmány, 1978: 107; Park & Lee, 1999: 120; Park & Oku, 2006: 176; Sakamaki, 2013: 221; Park et al., 2020: 394.
Type locality: Port Lazaref (=Wonsan), N. Korea, Type specimen in NHMUK.
Diagnosis. The species can be superficially distinguished from its allies by its large wingspan, forewing with an oblong spot at end of the cell, and hindwing with long hair-pencils on the upper surface at the base in the male. It is similar to L. pelomorpha Meyrick, 1931 but it is smaller than the latter. The male genitalia are also similar, but it can be distinguished by the following combination: costal bar slightly angled; cephalic side of the juxta sharply pointed; the aedeagus with conic apical processes at on both lateral sides, median plates of cornuti consisting of three short triangular sclerites, and connected with a conical spine-like plate basally. The female genitalia are separable by the horizontally elliptical signum.
Description. See Park & Oku (2006) for detailed description of the adults and genitalia.
Specimens examined. JAPAN, [Shikoku]: 1 ♂ 1 ♀, Matsuyama Castle area, Matsuyama City, Ehime Pref., 14.vi.2016, J. Oku leg. (1 ♂ Gen. sl. no. Lecithocera No. 6, 1 ♀ Gen. sl. no. Lecithocera No. 7) in ELKU; 2 ♀, same locality, 7.vii.2016, J. Oku leg. (1 ♀ Gen. sl. no. Lecithocera No. 16, wing. sl. no. Lecithocera No. 16-2) in ELKU; 1 ♂ 1♀, same locality, 7.vii.2016, J. Oku leg., in KGU; 1 ♂, same locality, 23.ix.2016, J. Oku leg. (1 ♂ Gen. sl. no. Lecithocera No. 17) in ELKU. [Kyushu]: 1 ♀, Nobu, Tsushima City, Nagasaki Pref., Tsushima Island, 14.vi.2018, T. Terada et al. leg. (1 ♀ Gen. sl. no. Lecithocera No. 87) in ELKU; 2 ♀, Kamisushima, Ushibuka City, Kumamoto Pref., 29.vi.2001, I. Ohshima leg., in HUM; 1 ♀, Taka-toge, Tarumizu City, Kagoshima Pref., 13.ix.2017, J. Oku leg. (1 ♀ Gen. sl. no. Lecithocera No. 50) in ELKU.
Distribution. Japan: Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima Island; North & South Korea.
Biology. Adults fly in early and mid-summer, and early fall.
Remarks. In Japanese specimens, the species has two color forms: the light-yellow form and the brownishorange form.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ELKU , HUM , KGU , NHMUK
- Event date
- 2001-06-29 , 2016-06-14 , 2016-07-07 , 2016-09-23 , 2017-09-13 , 2018-06-14
- Verbatim event date
- 2001-06-29 , 2016-06-14 , 2016-07-07 , 2016-09-23 , 2017-09-13 , 2018-06-14
- Scientific name authorship
- Meyrick
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lecithoceridae
- Genus
- Lecithocera
- Species
- chersitis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lecithocera chersitis Meyrick, 1918 sec. Oku, Sakamaki & Hirowatari, 2021
References
- Meyrick, E. (1918) Exotic Microlepidoptera. Vol. 2. Marlborough, Wilts, 640 pp.
- Clarke, J. F. G. (1965) Catalogue of the type specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Museum (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick. Vol. 5. Trustees of the British Museum, London, 255 pp.
- Gozmany, L. (1978) Lecithoceridae. In: Amsel, H. G., Reisser H. & Gregor, F. (Eds.), Microlepidoptera Palaearctica. Vol. V. Georg Fromme & Co., Wien, pp. 1 - 306.
- Park, K. T. & Lee, S. M. (1999) A review of the Lecithocerinae and Torodorinae (Lepicoptera, Lecithoceridae) in Korea. Insecta Koreana, 16 (2), 119 - 129.
- Park, K. T. & Oku, T. (2006) Discovery of the male of Lecithocera cheristis Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae) from Korea and Japan. Tinea, 19 (3), 175 - 179.
- Sakamaki, Y. (2013) Lecithoceridae. In: Hirowatari, T., Nasu, Y., Sakamaki, Y. & Kishida, Y. (Eds.), The Standard of Moths in Japan III. Gakken Education Publishing, Tokyo, pp. 219 - 224. [in Japanese]
- Park, K. T., Park, Y. M. & Kim, J. D. (2020) A new species and two unrecorded species of Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea) from Korea, with a tentative checklist of the family. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 13, 391 - 395. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. japb. 2020.03.013