Torodora manoconta Wu & Liu, 1994

Park, Kyu-Tek, 2007, A review of the Torodora manoconta species-group (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae), with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 1465, pp. 55-64 : 56

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scientific name	Torodora manoconta Wu & Liu, 1994
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Torodora manoconta Wu & Liu, 1994 View in CoL

( Figs. 1 View FIGURES 1 – 7 , 8, 8a, 15)

Torodora manoconta Wu & Liu, 1994 View in CoL . Sinozoologica 11: 164, fig. 9; Wu, 1997: 67.

Diagnosis. Forewing length 19–22 mm. This species is characterized by a yellowish white head and a narrow, elongate, shiny pale grayish orange to golden brown forewing, often with a yellowish triangular or elongate patch on the inner margin mesially. This species is superficially very similar to T. epitriona , but the two can be distinguished by male genitalia structures used in the key.

Male genitalia (Figs. 8, 8a). Uncus broadly expanded caudally. Gnathos slender, bent beyond 3/4 length. Valva with costa broadly expanded subbasally, then concave. Lateral lobe of juxta broad at base, triangularly protruded with acute apex; median flap rather small. Aedeagus stout, with a pair of bar-shaped cornuti: longer one slender, as long as aedeagus, shorter one less than 1/2 length of longer one (longer one often dislodged by dissecting genitalia).

Female genitalia ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 15 – 17 ). Eighth sternum emarginate mesially. Ductus bursae broad with a long, bandlike, sclerotized plate longitidunally and several short spines. Corpus bursae with a long, strawberry-shaped signum, about 1/2 length of corpus bursae.

Material examined. Taiwan: 1ɗ, Shanpin For. Stn., 750 m, Liukuei, 10 km SE Kaohsiung Co., 5– 6.VII.1986 (K.T. Park & H.K. Lee), genitalia slide no. CIS-4183. 3ɗ, Wulai, 550 m, Taipei Co., 1–2.VII.1996 (K.T. Park & J.S. Lee), gen. slide no. CIS-4183. 1ɗ, Liukuei, Shanpin For. Stn., 750m, Kaohsiung Co., 16– 23.III.1986 (J.B. Heppner & H. Wang). 1&, Chiangasan, 1100 m, Taichung Co., 8–11.V.1989 (J.B. Heppner & H. Wang), gen. slide. no. CIS-4109.

Distribution. China (Jiangxi, Yunan), Taiwan (Kaohsiung, Taichung, Taipei).

Remarks. In the Taiwanese specimen illustrated by Park (2000), the shapes of the cornuti in the male genitalia are slightly different; Park (2000) noted that further study of the variation in the cornuti is needed.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Lecithoceridae
Genus	Torodora