Stenoloba rectilinea Yoshimoto 1992

Stenoloba rectilinea Yoshimoto, 1992

(Figs 18, 41)

Stenoloba rectilinea Yoshimoto, 1992, in Haruta (Ed.) Moths of Nepal, Pt. 3, Tinea, 13, (suppl. 2): 52, Pl. 13: 13 (Holotype: Nepal, Godavari, NSM, Tokyo).

References. Kononenko & Ronkay 2000:166, Figs 25, 26, 51, 51a, 69 (Nepal).

Material examined. 4 males, China, Prov. Yunnan, Simao, Beishan, 17.vi.2013, H.L. Han & C. Zhang leg. Slide HHL-6135-1, HHL-6137-1, coll. NEFU.

Diagnosis. The species (Fig. 18) has a characteristic shape of the forewing with oblique costal margin in the basal part and almost parallel costal and ventral margins in the whole length of the wing; crosslines and spaces between lines appear in costal area as brown-greenish and brownish marks. In the male genitalia of S. rectilinea (Fig. 41) valva relatively shorter than those in S. rectilinoides, constricted distally above quadrangular sacculus; the vesica armed with patch of tiny setae-like cornuti. The detailed comparative diagnosis of this species is given above in the diagnosis of S. rectilinoides.

Distribution. Southwest China (Prov. Yunnan), Nepal.

Notes. The species formerly was known from Nepal; hereby it is recorded for China for the first time. New data considerable extend the distribution pattern of S. rectilinea.