Hieromantis sheni Li & Wang, 2002

Guan, Wei & Li, Houhun, 2015, Review of the genus Hieromantis Meyrick from China, with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera, Stathmopodidae), ZooKeys 534, pp. 85-102 : 94-95

Taxon classification Animalia Lepidoptera Stathmopodidae

Hieromantis sheni Li & Wang, 2002 Figs 12, 17, 23

Hieromantis sheni Li & Wang, 2002: 503. Type locality: China (Henan).

Type material.

CHINA: Holotype ♂, Huangshian Village, Xixia County, Henan Province, 890 m, 17.vii.1998, leg. Houhun Li. Paratypes: Henan Province: 2♀, Mt. Jigong, Xinyang City, 700 m, 9.v.1997, leg. Houhun Li; 12♂, 5♀, Mt. Song, Dengfeng City, 800 m, 9.vi.2000, leg. Haili Yu; Hebei Province: 2♂, 3♀, Mt. Xiantai, Jingxing County, 1200 m, 23−24.vi.2000, leg. Haili Yu; Jiangxi Province: 1♀, Yushan County, 19.vi.1985, leg. Guangpu Shen.

Additional material.

CHINA: Tianjin: 1♀, Heishuihe, Mt. Baxian, Ji County, 550 m, 11.viii.2009, leg. Jing Zhang et al.; 3♂, 2♀, Heishuihe, Mt. Baxian, Ji County, 550 m, 2−14.viii.2010, leg. Yinghui Mou & Shurong Liu; Hebei Province: 1♂, Mt. Xiantai, Jingxing County, 1200 m, 24.vii.2000, leg. Haili Yu; Shanxi Province: 1♀, Dahe Forest Farm, 1340 m, 12.vii.2012, leg. Qiang Gao & Na Chen; 1♂, 1♀, Dashuang Village, Magedang Town, Lingchuan County, 773 m, 22.vii.2012, leg. Wei Guan & Xiuchun Wang; Zhejiang Province: 1♀, Mt. Fengyang, Longquan County, Lishui City, 1470 m, 31.vii.2007, leg. Qing Jin; 3♀, Sanmuping, Mt. Tianmu, 789 m, 15.vii.2014, leg. Aihui Yin, Xuemei Hu & Qingyun Wang; Henan Province: 2♀, Mt. Baiyun, Luoyang City, 1560 m, 21.vii.2001, leg. Dandan Zhang; 7♂, 13♀, Shaolin Temple, Mt. Song, Dengfeng City, 700 m, 15−17.vii.2002, leg. Xinpu Wang; 8♂, 5♀, Mt. Baiyun, Song County, 1580 m, 18−23.vii.2002, leg. Xinpu Wang; 1♀, Zhuyu Peak, Mt. Yuntai, Jiaozuo City, 1297 m, 5.viii.2014, leg. Peixin Cong, Sha Hu & Linjie Liu; Hubei Province: 1♀, Songbai Town, Shennongjia Forest, 1400 m, 17.vii.2003, leg. Shulian Hao; Chongqing: 2♀, Laosimianshan Village, Mt. Simian, 14.vii.2012, leg. Yinghui Sun & Aihui Yin; 2♀, Laosimianshan Village, Mt. Simian, 1280 m, 10.viii.2012, leg. Xiaofei Yang & Tengteng Liu; Yunnan Province: 1♀, Taiyanghe Nature Reserves, 1450 m, 30.vii.2014, leg. Zhenguo Zhang; Shaanxi Province: 7♂, 3♀, Haoping Temple, Mt. Taibai, 13−16.vii.2005, leg. Ping You.

Diagnosis.

Adult (Fig. 12) with wingspan 7.0−10.5 mm. This species is similar to Hieromantis makiosana Yasuda, 1988 by having an obliquely upward-oriented triangular cucullus, but can be separated by having a leaden gray thorax and the distal 1/4 of the forewing dark brown; and the uncus truncate apically in the male genitalia (Fig. 17); the presence of a signum and the appendix bursae about the same length as the corpus bursae in the female genitalia (Fig. 23). In Hieromantis makiosana , the thorax is white, and the forewing is ochreous yellow in the distal 1/5; the uncus is pointed at apex; the corpus bursae lacks a signum, and the appendix bursae is longer than four times length of the corpus bursae. This species is also similar to Hieromantis phaeodora Meyrick, 1929, and the differences between them are stated under the latter species.

Distribution.

China (Chongqing, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Tianjin, Yunnan, Zhejiang).