Diascoides ferruginea ( Hampson, 1905 )

Qi, Feng, Wang, Ke, Xue, Dayong & Yang, Ding, 2011, A taxonomic revision of the Stictopterinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae) in China, Zootaxa 2926, pp. 1-45 : 28

Diascoides ferruginea ( Hampson, 1905)

Figs. 9 , 102, 103 , 184

Stictoptera ferruginea Hampson, 1905 , Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (7) 16: 535. Syntypes: 2 males, Indonesia: Pulo Laut (BMNH). Lophoptera sordida Warren, 1914 , Novit. zool., 21: 416.

Diascoides ferruginea Holloway, 1985 , Malay. Nat. J., 38: 282.

Lophoptera ferruginea : Poole, 1989, in Heppner, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, Fasc. 118 Noctuidae : 602.

Diagnosis. This species resembles D. metaphaea ( Walker, 1864) from Malaysia, but differs by shorter forewing and pale color. In the male genitalia, both arms of the uncus are slightly expanded centrally, but those of D. metaphaea are slender and not expanded; the costa of D. ferruginea has a short process arising from the basal one third, but that of D. metaphaea does not have any process.

Material examined. CHINA, Yunnan: 1 female, Mangshi, Judong, 1200 m, 5.V.1980, coll. Gao Ping ( IZCAS).

Distribution. China (Yunnan), N.E. Himalaya, Peninsular Malaysia, Indonesia. This species is reported for China for the first time.

Remarks. Poole (1989) referred this species in Lophoptera . Based on the genitalia characters of both sexes, we follow the treatment by Holloway (1985), placing it in Diascoides .

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FIGURES 3 – 11. Venations. 3. Stictoptera signifera. 4. Aegilia describens. 5. Gyrtona lapidarioides. 6. Odontodes aleuca. 7. Lophoptera squammilinea. 8. Lophoptera longipennis. 9. Diascoides ferruginea. 10 – 11. Sigmuncus arcuata. 10, male; 11, female.

FIGURES 64 – 103. Adults. 64 – 71. Lophoptera illucida. 64, female, upperside; 65, female, underside; 66, female, upperside; 67, female, underside; 68, male, upperside; 69, male, underside; 70, male, upperside; 71, male, underside. 72 – 73. Lophoptera longipennis. 72, female, upperside; 73, female, underside. 74 – 75. Lophoptera tenuis. 74, female, upperside; 75, female, underside. 76 – 77. Lophoptera acutiprocessa. sp. nov., paratype. 76, female, upperside; 77, female, underside. 78 – 79. Lophoptera phaeobasis. 78, female, upperside; 79, female, underside. 80 – 81. Lophoptera negretinoides. 80, male, upperside; 81, male, underside. 82 – 83. Lophoptera negretina. 82, female, upperside; 83, female, underside. 84 – 85. Lophoptera solealis. sp. nov., holotype. 84, male, upperside; 85, male, underside. 86 – 87. Lophoptera huma. 86, male, upperside; 87, male, underside. 88 – 89. Lophoptera squammigera. 88, female, upperside; 89, female, underside. 90 – 91. Lophoptera squammilinea. 90, male, upperside; 91, male, underside. 92 – 93. Lophoptera purpurfera. sp. nov., holotype. 92, male, upperside; 93, male, underside. 94 – 95. Lophoptera trigonoprocessa. sp. nov., paratype. 94, female, upperside; 95, female, underside. 96 – 97. Lophoptera obliquilinea. 96, female, upperside; 97, female, underside. 98 – 99. Lophoptera hypenistis. 98, female, upperside; 99, female, underside. 100 – 101. Lophoptera partitistis. 100, female, upperside; 101, female, underside. 102 – 103. Diascoides ferruginea. 102, female, upperside; 103, female, underside. Scale bar = 1 cm.

FIGURES 178 – 184. Female genitalia. 178. Lophoptera squammigera. 179. Lophoptera squammilinea. 180. Lophoptera trigonoprocessa sp. nov. 181. Lophoptera obliquilinea. 182. Lophoptera hypenistis. 183. Lophoptera partitistis. 184. Diascoides ferruginea. Scale bars = 1 mm.