Promalactis basifasciaria Wang 2006

Kim, Sora, Park, Kyu-Tek, Heppner, John B. & Lee, Seunghwan, 2014, Genus Promalactis Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) in northern Vietnam, Part III: seven new species and four newly recorded species, Journal of Natural History 48 (21), pp. 1327-1346 : 1339

Promalactis basifasciaria Wang 2006

( Figures 1G, H , 2D , and 4D, E)

Promalactis basifasciaria Wang 2006 , Science press, 19–20.

Diagnosis

This species is externally close to Promalactis autoclina Meyrick in the wing pattern, but it is differentiated by the fuscous patch before the tornus in the forewing, the antrum trapezoidal, the duscus bursae with a long spine, and the corpus bursae with diamond-like signum in the female genitalia.

Material examined

One male, Tam Dao Nat. Park, Vietnam, 950 m, 31 July 2006, Park, Chae and Cuong; one female, same locality, 450 m, 30 July 2006, Park, Chae and Cuong; one female, same locality, 950 m, 24 May 2007, KT Park, slide gen. no. SNU-9004/ S Kim .

Distribution

Oriental: Vietnam (North), China (Southwest; Wang 2006).

Figures

Figure 1-1. Adult. (A) Promalactis acanthiana sp. nov.; (B) Promalactis acanthiana sp. nov., wing pattern; (C) Promalactis albinparata sp. nov.; (D) Promalactis albinparata sp. nov., wing pattern; (E) Promalactis asperiola sp. nov.; (F) Promalactis asperiola, wing pattern; (G) Promalactis. basifasciaria; (H) Promalactis. basifasciaria, wing pattern.

Figure 1-2. Adult. (I) Promalactis caperatiella sp. nov.; (J) Promalactis caperatiella sp. nov., wing pattern; (K) Promalactis curtifascia sp. nov.; (L) Promalactis curtifascia sp. nov., wing pattern; (M) Promalactis gigaspina sp. nov.; (N) Promalactis gigaspina sp. nov., wing pattern; (O) Promalactis kalimantana; (P) Promalactis kalimantana, wing pattern.