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Rhodostrophia bisinuata subsp. bisinuata bisinuata Warren 1895

Description

Rhodostrophia bisinuata bisinuata Warren, 1895

Figs 9, 22, 33, 44, 54

Rhodostrophia bisinuata Warren, 1895, Novit. zool., 2: 98. Holotype ♀, 'Japan' [incorrect locality], [possibly West China] (NHM). Rhodostrophia vinacearia sinensis Prout, 1913, in Seitz, Macrolepid. World, 4: 43. Holotype , China: Moupin (NHM).

Diagnosis. The species is similar to R. reisseri sp. nov., but can be distinguished by the following characters: the colour of the wings varies from pale yellowish to brown, the medial bands of all wings are sometimes thin and without shadow; a blackish brown marking is usually present on vein M 1 between the postmedial line and the outer margin of the forewing. The genitalia are quite different from R. reisseri sp. nov.: the valva is long and with a quadrate apex; the terminal part of the sacculus is separate from the valva, and forms a long digitiform process; a short spinose process is raised from the cleft of the valva and the saccular process; the apex of the aedeagus is rounded with a tooth, the vesica is partly sclerotized and wrinkle; the male eighth sternite is widely concave on the posterior margin. In the female genitalia, the anterior part of the ductus bursae is much narrower than the posterior part; the signum is composed of two small vertical bars and weakly sclerotized; the seventh sternite is broad, concave on the posterior margin, and forms a pair of narrow and curved pouch-like lateral processes on the anterior margin.

Material examined. CHINA: Yunnan (IZCAS): 1♀, Kunming, Heilongtan, 14.V.1980; 2 6 2♀, Tengchong, Heinitang, 1930 m, 28–30.V.1992, coll. Xue Dayong; 2♀, Tengchong, Dahaoping, 2020 m, 24–26.V.1992, 5– 7.VIII.2007, coll. Xue Dayong et al.

Distribution. China (Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan).

Notes

Published as part of Cui, Le, Xue, Dayong & Jiang, Nan, 2019, Description of two new species of Rhodostrophia Hübner, 1823 from China (Lepidoptera, Geometridae), pp. 337-353 in Zootaxa 4563 (2) on page 343, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4563.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/2601267

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
IZCAS , NHM
Event date
1980-05-14
Verbatim event date
1980-05-14
Scientific name authorship
bisinuata Warren
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Rhodostrophia
Species
bisinuata
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Rhodostrophia bisinuata subsp. bisinuata Warren, 1895 sec. Cui, Xue & Jiang, 2019

References

  • Warren, W. (1895) New species and genera of Geometridae in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae, 2, 82 - 159.