Scotiophyes faeculosa ( Meyrick, 1928 )

Wang, Xin-Pu, 2009, Taxonomic study on Scotiophyes Diakonoff from China, with the description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), Zootaxa 1974, pp. 64-68 : 65-66

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Scotiophyes faeculosa ( Meyrick, 1928) View in CoL

( Figs. 1, 3, 5 View FIGURES 1 – 5 )

Adoxophyes faeculosa Meyrick, 1928: 453 View in CoL ; Clarke, 1958: 20, pl. 10, figs. 3–3a.

Scotiophyes faeculosa: Diakonoff, 1976: 74 View in CoL , fig. 81, pl. I, fig. 2; Kawabe, et al. 1992: 104; Tuck, 1995: 90; Liu and Li, 2002: 217, pl. XXXI–296, LXXVII–296; Brown, 2005: 549.

Adult ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1 – 5 ). Head: Labial palpus narrow, white. Frons whitish yellow. Vertex with erect and rough yellowish scales. Antenna yellowish brown. Thorax: Grayish brown. Tegula dark basally, gray distally. Forewing length 10.0– 11.5 mm in male, 12.5 mm in female. Forewing oblong, somewhat expanded apically; apex short, sub-square; termen almost straight; ground color yellowish ochreous with some purple scales; patterns ferruginous: basal blotch large; median fascia extending before middle of costa to dorsum; subapical blotch very large, reachnig apex and vein M3, broad anteriorly, narrow posteriorly; fringe concolorous with ground color. Hind wing gray, fringe pale gray. Abdomen: Male genitalia ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 1 – 5 ) with tegumen wider than long; uncus as long as tegumen, dilated and thickened in basal half, narrow in distal half, somewhat pointed apically; socius fused with gnathos, ca. half as long as gnathos; arms of gnathos slender, bifurcate at 2/3 distance, pointed apically; transtilla bandlike, narrow, sinuate; valva broad, width about 2 times length, narrowed distally; costa short, restricted to basal 1/3; sacculus broad, with two processes ventrally; aedeagus short, ca. half tegumen width, weakly sclerotized; vesica without cornuti (possibly deciduous); juxta large, strongly concave in middle. Female genitalia ( Fig. 5 View FIGURES 1 – 5 ) with apophyses anteriores about 1.5 times length of apophyses posteriores, the latter with broad basal plate. Sterigma narrow. Antrum short, sclerotized; ductus bursae with small internal sclerites; corpus bursae oval; signum horn-shaped, without capitulum.

Material examined. CHINA: 4 ɗɗ, Caiyanghe, Simao, Yunnan Province, 1500 m, 16-20.v.2000, Bu Wenjun and Zheng Leyi; 9 ɗɗ, 1 Ψ, Wenfengsi, Lijiang, Yunnan Province, 2650 m, 18.vii.2001, Li Houhun and Wang Xinpu.

Distribution: China (Yunnan, Taiwan), Thailand, India and Nepal.

References

Brown, J. W. (2005) World Catalogue of Insects, 5 Tortricidae (Lepidoptera). Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark. 741 pp.

Clarke, J. F. G. (1958) Catalogue of the type specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Museum (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick. Volume 3. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London.

Diakonoff, A. (1976) Tortricoidea from Nepal, 2. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 144, 1 - 145.

Kawabe, A., Komai, F., and Razowski, J. (1992) Tortricoidea, pp. 103 - 109. In: Heppner, J. and Inoue, B. H. (eds.), Lepidoptera of Taiwan Volume 1, part 2: Checklist. Association for Tropical Lepidoptera, Scientific Publishers.

Liu, Y. Q. and Li, G .. W. (2002) Fauna Sinica Insecta, Vol. 27. Lepidoptera Tortricidae. Science Press, Beijing.

Meyrick, E. (1928) Exotic Microlepidoptera, 3, 449 - 464.

Tuck, K. R. (1995) A checklist of described species of Chlidanotinae and Tortricinae (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) of Thailand, with description of a new species of Ancyroclepsis Diakonoff. Microlepidoptera of Thailand, 3, 87 - 92.