Agalope jianqingi, Huang & Zhu & Chen & Xu & Wang & Fan & Pan & Espeland, 2022

Huang, Si-Yao, Zhu, Li-Juan, Chen, En-Yong, Xu, Yong-Qiang, Wang, Min, Fan, Xiao-Ling, Pan, Zhao-Hui & Espeland, Marianne, 2022, Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Agalope Walker from mainland China with descriptions of four new species (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae, Chalcosiinae), Zootaxa 5165 (4), pp. 557-574 : 572

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.4.7

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6854090

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scientific name

Agalope jianqingi
status

sp. n.

Agalope jianqingi View in CoL S.-Y. Huang sp. n.

( Figs 29 View FIGURES 21–30 , 53, 55 View FIGURES 51–56 )

Type material. Holotype: male, 14.V.2009, Pianma Town , Lushui City, Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, P. R. China, Jian-qing Zhu leg., slide PMAG1 View Materials ( CHSY, will be subsequently deposited in ZFMK).

Diagnosis. Length of forewing 19. 3 mm. Agalope jianqingi sp. n. is reminiscent of A. primularis Butler, 1875 ( Figs 30 View FIGURES 21–30 , 54, 56 View FIGURES 51–56 ) from Eastern Nepal and Northeastern India for sharing a similar 8 th tergite, which bears two narrow and slender processes, whereas in other congeners these processes are thick and stout or absent ( Owada 1992; Horie 1993; Owada & Horie 2000), but it can be immediately distinguished from A. primularis by the combination of the following characters: 1) male forewing ground color is creamy white instead of yellow in A. primularis ; 2) posterior tegumenal projection is much broader and longer; 3) notch between the lobes of juxta is wider and deeper; 4) valva is more slender, with the distal part longer and 5) aedeagus shorter and broader.

Distribution. Known from Pianma Town ( Fig. 62 View FIGURES 62–67 ) located at the border of China and Myanmar in Western Yunnan, P. R. China.

Etymology. The specific epithet jianqingi is dedicated to the Chinese entomologist Mr. Jian-qing Zhu, a friend of the first author and an expert in the taxonomy of Hesperiidae .

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

ZFMK

Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Zygaenidae

Genus

Agalope

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