Monopis iunctio, 2011

Huang, Guo-Hua, Chen, Liu-Sheng, Hirowatari, Toshiya, Nasu, Yoshitsugu & Wang, Ming, 2011, A revision of the Monopis monachella species complex (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) from China, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163 (1), pp. 1-14 : 8-9

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00704.x
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5492033
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A525A441-5330-FFEA-B967-FCB93FEBB96F
treatment provided by	Valdenar
scientific name	Monopis iunctio
status	sp. nov.

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MONOPIS IUNCTIO HUANG & HIROWATARI SP. NOV.

( FIGS 1C View Figure 1 , 2C, 3E View Figure 3 )

Diagnosis: See the diagnosis of M. monachella .

Description: Male. Wingspan 14.2–15.8 mm, forewing length 6.5–7.3 mm, length of antenna 5.4–6.0 mm ( Fig. 1C View Figure 1 ).

Head: vertex and frons densely covered with rough, erect, yellowish white scales except the edges, which have brownish black scales. Antenna smooth, brownish black except apical part white, almost 0.8 ¥ length of forewing; scape smooth scaled, yellowish white with pecten containing more than six black bristles. Compound eyes large, covered with brownish grey scales along the edge. Maxillary palpus sparsely covered with pale yellow scales. Labial palpus yellowish white mesally, and brownish black laterally, the second segment with a bundle of black scales ventrally and more than ten long, strong, black bristles laterally and apically.

Thorax: dorsum including tegula smooth with dense white scales, anterior and posterior end of mesonotum dark brownish grey; tegula with basal 1/4 black. Fore- and midleg brownish black; hindleg pale black with hind tibia bearing long yellowish pale hairs. Forewing about 3.0 ¥ as long as wide including fringes (about 2.9 ¥ as long as wide excluding fringe); ground colour purple black with a large rectangular oblique white marking (including the subhyaline spot) on the costa from 2/7 to 6/7 dilated in middle where it reaches halfway across wing, which has a black sheep-foot-shaped spot along the costa from basal 1/2 to 6/7, costa with a very narrow black streak from basal 2/7 to 1/2; fringe short, black; R 1 arising from 1/8 of discoidal cell. Hindwing about 1.8 ¥ as long as wide including fringe (about 2.6 ¥ as long as wide excluding fringe); ground colour brownish grey, semihyaline, with short pale brown fringe except basal 1/2 of costa; all veins present and free, M 1 ending at the termen ( Fig. 2C).

Abdomen: dorsum greyish brown, heavily irrorated with pale white scales; venter with grey; the end with dense, slender, short grey scales covering genitalia.

Genitalia ( Fig. 3E View Figure 3 ): uncus about 3/8 ¥ length of valva. Vinculum very narrow. Saccus relatively short, about 1.8 ¥ length of valva. Valva about 2.8 ¥ width, inner surface of valva membranous on central portion, and setose on distal 1/2. Aedeagus straight, cylindrical, entirely stout, about 1.5 ¥ length of valva, weakly sclerotized, cornutus indistinct.

Female. Unknown.

Holotype: Male, China: Hainan, Bawangling National N. R., 560 m asl, 11.x.2006, light trapping, G.H. Huang and Z. Li leg. Deposited in Institute of Entomology, HUNAU.

Paratypes: 1 male, Thailand: Chiang Mai, Doi Pakia , 1500 m asl, 5–7.ix.1987, S. Moriuti, T. Saito, Y. Arita & Y. Yoshiyasu leg. ; 1 male, Thailand: Khao Soi Dao , 400 m asl, 7–8.x.1985, H. Kuroko, S. Moriuti, T. Saito & Y. Arita leg. Paratypes deposited in Entomological Laboratory, OPU .

Distribution: South China; Thailand.

Etymology of specific epithet: From the Latin iunctio (= connection), referring to the sheep-foot-shaped black spot in the white marking connected with the outer margin of the whitish marker in forewing.

Remarks: The new species can be distinguished from other species based on the characters given in the diagnosis of M. monachella .