Meleonoma facialis Li & Wang, 2002

Yin, Aihui & Wang, Shuxia, 2016, Taxonomic study of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick from Thailand (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea), ZooKeys 571, pp. 133-141 : 139

Taxon classification Animalia Lepidoptera Cosmopterigidae

Meleonoma facialis Li & Wang, 2002 Figs 5, 10

Meleonoma facialis Li & Wang, 2002: 230.

Redescription.

Adult (Fig. 5): Wing expanse 10.0‒10.5 mm. Head pale yellow, with appressed scales. Labial palpus and antenna pale yellow, antenna ringed with pale brown on flagellum. Forewing yellow, with scattered black scales; black scales becoming denser at apex, forming irregular obscure blotch; costal margin with indistinct black spot at middle; small black dot set at middle of cell and at 2/3 of fold respectively; cilia same color as forewing. Hindwing and cilia greyish white. Legs yellowish white, fore and mid tibiae and tarsi brown on outer surface, with pale spots; mid tibia and tarsus tinged with brown scales.

Male genitalia (Fig. 10): Uncus somewhat conic. Valva narrow at base, slightly widened distally, apex rounded; transtilla distally rounded. Sacculus rectangular basally, with three processes distally: dorsal process longest, somewhat elliptically dilated distally; median process small pine-like; ventral process subtriangular, wide at base, narrowed gradually to 2/3, distal 1/3 sharply narrowed, uniform, apex bluntly rounded. Saccus large, triangular, apex roundly pointed. Aedeagus shorter than valva, straight, with one short sclerotized cornutus.

Material examined.

1♂, Thailand: Loei province, Phu Luang Wildlife Sanctuary, 8-14.x.1984, leg. Karsholt, Lomholdt & Nielsen, genitalia slide No. ZMUC-NK054.

Distribution.

Thailand, China (Jiangxi, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Yunnan).