Adaina microdactyla

Hao, Shulian, Kendrick, Roger C. & Li, Houhun, 2008, Microlepidoptera of Hong Kong: Checklist of Pterophoridae, with description of one new species (Insecta, Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 1821, pp. 37-48 : 45

Adaina microdactyla (Hübner, [1813] 1796)

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Alucita microdactyla Hübner , [1813] 1796: Taf. 5, fig. 26, 27. Pterophorus carphodactylus Stephens, 1835 (non H¸nber [1813]): 374. Adaina subflavescens Meyrick, 1930: 568 .

Adaina montivola Meyrick, 1937: 170 .

Material examined. CHINA: 2 ΨΨ, Hong Kong, KF64-B. G., 26.vii.1999 (Roger C. Kendrick); 1 Ψ, Hong Kong, New Territories, Shek Kong, Kadoorie Agricultural Research Centre, 8.viii.1997 (Roger C. Kendrick); 2 ɗɗ, Hong Kong, New Territories, Shek Kong, Kadoorie Agricultural Research Centre, alt. 210 m, 16~ 18.iv.2007 (Houhun Li etc.); 1 Ψ, Hong Kong, New Territories, Shek Kong, Kadoorie Agricultural Research Centre, alt. 210 m, 11.iv.2007 (Houhun Li etc.).

Hostplant. Eupatorium cannabinum Linn. (Asteraceae) ( Yano, 1963).

Parasites. Apanteles phaloniae Wilkinson (Braconidae) ; Scambus nigricans (Thoms) (Ichneumonidae) ( Gielis, 2003).

Distribution. China ( Hong Kong, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Xizang, Shaanxi, Taiwan), cosmopolitan.

Figures

FIGURES 11 – 18. Adults of Pterophoridae. 11, Sphenarches anisodactylus (Walker); 12, Stenoptilodes taprobanes (Felder & Rogenhofer); 13, Adaina microdactyla (Hübner); 14, Hellinsia lienigiana (Zeller); 15, Hellinsia sichuana Arenberger; 16, Pterophorus maolanensis Li; 17, Pterophorus pentadactylus (Linnaeus); 18, Pterophorus attenuatus sp. nov.