Hieromantis puerensis, Guan, Wei & Li, Houhun, 2015

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 : 91

Taxon classification Animalia Lepidoptera Stathmopodidae

Hieromantis puerensis sp. n. Figs 9, 20

Type material.

CHINA: Holotype ♀, Taiyanghe National Forest Park (22°36'N, 101°07'E), Pu’er City, Yunnan Province, 1626 m, 7.vii.2013, leg. Shurong Liu, Yuqi Wang & Kaijian Teng, genitalia slide No. GW13142. Paratypes: 2♀, same data as holotype except dated 6−7.vii.2013.

Diagnosis.

This species is superficially similar to Hieromantis ephodophora Meyrick, 1897, Hieromantis phaeodora Meyrick, 1929, Hieromantis kurokoi Yasuda, 1988 and Hieromantis arcuata sp. n. It can be easily distinguished from its allies by the female genitalia having a lamella antevaginalis that consists of a pair of posteriorly joined kidney-shaped sclerites and the absence of a signum.

Description.

Adult (Fig. 9). Wingspan 9.0−10.5 mm. Head with frons shining white; vertex pale yellowish brown; occiput pale ochreous yellow. Labial palpus silvery white, second segment with scattered pale yellow scales on outer side, third segment yellowish brown on outer side. Antenna with scape silvery white, with suffused yellowish brown scales posteriorly; flagellum ochreous yellow, ringed with brown. Thorax ochreous brown, with a longitudinal silvery white band in anterior half medially; tegula grayish yellow. Forewing brown, distal 1/5 ochreous brown; below costal margin set three pale ochreous yellow shades in basal half; broad grayish brown band extending from costal 1/2 slightly obliquely outward to above distal end of fold, ending in a silvery white spot, edged with narrow ochreous brown band along its inner and outer margins, with a rounded black dot placed at end of inner band above fold, its inner side with a few silvery white scales; inverted trapezoidal pale ochreous yellow patch located between outer band and costal 4/5, its posterior margin reaching beyond end of fold; narrow ochreous brown band extending from costal 3/4 obliquely inward to beyond end of fold, edged with scattered silvery white scales along outer side; dorsum with an ill-defined yellowish white patch at base, with a subovate patch located between basal 1/3 and before middle consisting of tufts of erect shining gray scales, surrounded by six not well separated black spots, margined with white scales along inner and anterior margins; cilia pale brown. Hindwing grayish brown, cilia pale brown. Legs pale yellow: foreleg ringed with black scales at apices of tibia and second tarsomere; mid tibia dorsally with yellowish white hairs, with white bristles at apex, tarsus ringed with blackish brown bristles at apex of second tarsomere; hind tibia dorsally with yellowish brown deepening to brown bristles, tarsus dorsally with grayish brown deepening to brown bristles on basal two tarsomeres, ringed with brown bristles at apices of basal two tarsomeres, distal two tarsomeres snowy white, black at apex. Abdomen dorsally ochreous brown; ventrally pale grayish white.

Female genitalia (Fig. 20). Intersegmental membrane between papilla analis and eighth abdominal segment about 3.5 times length of papilla analis. Apophysis posterior 1.5 times length of apophysis anterior. Eighth segment straight on both anterior and posterior margins, with long hairs on posterior margin. Lamella antevaginalis consisting of a pair of posteriorly joined kidney-shaped sclerites. Antrum indistinct. Ductus bursae approximately 1.3 times length of corpus bursae, narrow in posterior 1/4, slightly broadened anteriorly. Corpus bursae ovate, with dense granules entirely, with a protrudence carrying dense granules at junction with ductus bursae; signum absent. Appendix bursae arising from junction between corpus bursae and ductus bursae, long, tube shaped, longer than five times length of corpus bursae, slightly dilated near transition with ductus seminalis.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution.

China (Yunnan).

Etymology.

The specific name is derived from the type locality.