Neopseustis meyricki Hering 1925
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Neopseustis meyricki Hering, 1925
(Figs. 5, 6, 12, 16)
Diagnosis. Wing expanse 20–22mm. Basal 2/3 of forewing brownish, mottled with dark fuscous spots and with sparse scattering of silvery white scales; distal 1/3 whitish, mottled with large brownish spots, largest one along the costa from Sc2 to apex; one conspicuous geniculate spot from tornus to middle of R4, outward turn at the middle of M2. Hindwings with basal 2/3 grayish brown, distal 1/3 whitish with grayish brown edge from Sc2 to CuA1. Male genitalia with greatly lengthened parameres similar to that of N. sinensis, and lateroposterior process of anellus deeply forked basally forming two slender branches. Inner branch with smooth edge which can be distinguished from the coarsely serrated edge of N. archiphenax (Davis, 1975).
Material examined. Shihtyutou (=Shihtzutou), Nantou Hsien, Taiwan, 1 male, 25-III-1995, 1 male, 30- IV-1995, 1 female, 5-VIII-1996, 1 male, 1-IX-1992, 6 males, 8 females, 15-26-X-1992, 1 female, 14-X-1998, J. LUO leg., ex Y. Arita and B. Tanaka Collections.
Bionomics. All the moths were collected by a light trap set. Distribution. China (Taiwan).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hering
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Neopseustidae
- Genus
- Neopseustis
- Species
- meyricki
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Neopseustis meyricki Hering, 1925 sec. Chen, Owada, Wang & Long, 2009
References
- Hering, M. (1925) Ueber die Gattung Neopseustis Meyrick (Lep.). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum, Berlin, 12 (1), 141 - 147.
- Davis, D. R. (1975) Systematics and zoogeography of the family Neopseustidae with the proposal of a new superfamily (Lepidoptera: Neopseustoidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 210, 1 - 45.