Scobura stellata, Fan, Xiaoling, Chiba, Hideyuki & Wang, Min, 2010

Fan, Xiaoling, Chiba, Hideyuki & Wang, Min, 2010, The genus Scobura Elwes & Edwards, 1897 from China, with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), Zootaxa 2490, pp. 1-15 : 13-14

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.195589

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6201597

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1F7B87E5-FFF1-D705-FF7D-9BFAFB9BFA5D

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Scobura stellata
status

sp. nov.

Scobura stellata sp. nov.

Fig. 23−24 View FIGURES 1 − 24 , 70−74 View FIGURES 70 − 74

Holotype 3 ( SCAU), Nanling National Nature Reserve, Ruyuan, Guangdong, China, 13.V.1997, M. Wang leg. Forewing length 16 mm, antenna length 10 mm ( Figs. 23−24 View FIGURES 1 − 24 ). Paratypes: 13, Nanling National Nature Reserve, Ruyuan, Guangdong, 13.V.2004, M. Wang leg.; 23, Nanling National Nature Reserve, Ruyuan, Guangdong, 6.V.2006, M. Wang leg.; 23, Nibashan, Rongjing, Sichuan, 24.VII.2009, M. Wang leg.

Description

Antennae dark brown above, paler brown below, and yellow brown before club. Palpi with the second segment long and erect, densely covered with yellow brown scales ventrally; the third segment thin and pointed, prominently protruding. Wings upperside with ground color brown, forewing cell spots conjoined, lower one larger and produced toward base; spot in space CuA1 largest, spots in spaces M3 and R3-R5 small, spot in space CuA2 pale yellow; hindwing without spots. Forewing underside brown with dense yellow brown scales at costa and apex, a broad white area along dorsum distally; markings similar to those on upperside except for small spots in spaces M1 and M2; hindwing underside ground color yellow brown with ferruginous scales distally and a broad grey brown area along dorsum; subapical area with small white spots in spaces Sc+R1 to CuA2, of which in spaces M1 and M2 totally conjoined, forming a single larger spot, in spaces Rs and M3 dot-like; cell with two white small spots distally, upper one dot-like; all white spots surrounded by dark area.

Male genitalia ( Figs. 70−74 View FIGURES 70 − 74 ): Uncus longer than tegumen, triangular basally, thin and long distally; socius slender and pointed at tip; saccus long; valva with ventrodistal process rather rounded, armed with small spines apically; aedeagus with suprazonal sheath noticeably shorter than subzonal sheath; juxta funnel-like, thin and long basally, pointed at tip.

Distribution

China (Sichuan, Guangdong).

Remarks

Externally the new species is very similar to S. tytleri from Manipur, Assam ( Evans, 1914; 1949), but can be distinguished from the latter by the following characters: forewing upperside with spot in space M3, underside with spots in spaces M1 and M2; valva with the ventrodistal process symmetrical distally. The new species also resembles S. parawoolletti , but can be distinguished from the latter by the combination of the following characteristics: forewing underside with small white spots in spaces M1 and M2; hindwing underside with white spots in discoidal cell, spaces Rs and M3; juxta with lower margin gradually narrowed; valva with ventrodistal process distally rounded.

Both S. tytleri and the new species are the members of a vicariant species group of woolletti in sharing lateral processes of the tegument which is a unique feature of the group in the genus.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Hesperiidae

Genus

Scobura

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