Promalactis semantris ( Meyrick, 1906 )
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Promalactis semantris ( Meyrick, 1906 ) |
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Promalactis semantris ( Meyrick, 1906) View in CoL
( Figs. 9 View FIGURES 7 – 10 , 19 View FIGURES 17 – 20 , 26 View FIGURES 21 – 26 )
Epicallima semantris Meyrick, 1906: 408 .
Promalactis semantris ( Meyrick, 1906) View in CoL ; Meyrick, 1922: 26.
Promolactis [sic] suzukiella (Matsumura, 1931) View in CoL ; Kendrick (2003: 44; plate 3, fig 11): misidentification.
Material examined: CHINA: 1 3, Mai Po Education Centre, Hong Kong, 30.vii.1994, leg. R. C. Kendrick; 1 3, KARC, Hong Kong, 200 m, 27.iii.1999, leg. R. C. Kendrick; 1 3, Tai Tam Tuk Reservoir, Hong Kong Island, 7.iv.1999, leg. R. C. Kendrick; 1 Ƥ, Tai Tam Tuk Reservoir, Hong Kong Island, 29.v.1999, leg. R. C. Kendrick & M. J. Sterling; 1 3, Tai Mong Tsai, Sai Kung, Hong Kong, 2.ii.2002, leg. R. C. Kendrick & M. J. Sterling; 4 3, 1 Ƥ, KARC, Hong Kong, 9–16.iv.2007, leg. Houhun Li et al.; 2 3, 1 Ƥ, Nam Chung Valley, Hong Kong, 18.iv.2007, leg. Houhun Li et al.
Diagnosis. This species is characterized by the forewing having two white basal lines and a rounded spot at costal 3/4 ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 7 – 10 ). It is similar to P. suzukiella both superficially and internally, but can be distinguished from it by male with the uncus having a pair of slender posterolateral processes, the costa extending to a small apex-setose process and the juxta bearing one larger spine and two small teeth posteriorly ( Fig. 19 View FIGURES 17 – 20 ); and by female with the lamella postvaginalis being a pair of more or less sclerotized triangular plates ( Fig. 26 View FIGURES 21 – 26 ). In P. suzukiella , the uncus is broad at base and narrowed to pointed apex, the costa extends to a fingerlike process with fine hairs and the juxta lacks the large spine and small teeth posteriorly in males; and the lamella postvaginalis in females is somewhat a rectangular plate.
Distribution. China ( Hong Kong, Taiwan), Sri Lanka, Vietnam.
Hong Kong distribution and status. Widespread and frequent; 32 records from secondary forest, feng shui woods, mangrove and abandoned agricultural land from sea level to 550 m elevation; flight period: at least bivoltine, seen in March −April and from late May through October.
Kendrick, R. C. (2003) Moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera) of Hong Kong. Ph. D. thesis, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, xvi + 660 pp. Available from http: // sunzi. lib. hku. hk / hkuto / record / B 30278831 (accessed 10 Jan 2008).
Meyrick, E. (1906) Descriptions of Indian Microlepidoptera II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 17, 403 - 417.
Meyrick, E. (1922) Family Oecophoridae. Genera Insectorum. Ed. P. Wytsman. Bruxelles. 180, 244 pp.
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Promalactis semantris ( Meyrick, 1906 )
Wang, Shuxia, Kendrick, Roger C. & Sterling, Philip 2009 |
Promalactis semantris (
Meyrick 1922: 26 |
Epicallima semantris
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