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Calamotropha aequilata Li & Li 2012

  • 1. College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
  • 2. College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China & qimujie @ 163. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1931 - 8401
  • 3. College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China & shxwang @ nankai. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9316 - 6661
  • 4. College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China & College of Life and Geographic Sciences, Kashi University, Kashi 844000, China; Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Ecology of Pamirs Plateau, Kashi 844000, China

Description

Calamotropha aequilata Li & Li, 2012

(Fig. 2)

Calamotropha aequilata Li & Li, 2012: 2652. TL: China (Hainan). TD: NKU.

Material examined. Holotype ♁, Hainan: Tongguling (19.60°N, 110.75°E), Wenchang, 50 m, 20.VII.2008, leg. BB Hu et al., slide No. LWC08409. Paratype: 1♀, same data as holotype except dated 18.VII.2008 (abdomen missing).

Diagnosis. Adult (Fig. 2) wingspan 15.0–16.0 mm. Calamotropha aequilata is characterized by the brown forewing with a black medial speckle near the anterior corner of the cell; in the male genitalia by the aequilate valva with apex concave at posterior 1/3, the straight phallus about 1.5 X as long as the valva, and the vesica with a cluster of differently sized spine-like cornuti (Li & Li 2012: Fig. 2C).

Distribution. China (Hainan).

Notes

Published as part of Kim, Yongnam, Qi, Mujie, Wang, Shuxia & Li, Houhun, 2023, Taxonomy of the genus Calamotropha Zeller (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Crambinae) from China, pp. 451-482 in Zootaxa 5297 (4) on page 455, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5297.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8009006

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BB
Event date
2008-07-18 , 2008-07-20
Family
Crambidae
Genus
Calamotropha
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Li & Li
Species
aequilata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Verbatim event date
2008-07-18 , 2008-07-20
Taxonomic concept label
Calamotropha aequilata Li, 2012 sec. Kim, Qi, Wang & Li, 2023

References

  • Li, W. & Li, H. (2012) Review of the genus Calamotropha Zeller (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Crambinae) from China, with descriptions of four new species. Journal of Natural History, London, 46 (43 - 44), 2639 - 2664. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933.2012.724719