Shaddai typicus Distant (Fig. 11)

Shaddai typicus Distant, 1918:15

Alebra typica Evans, 1947:204

Shaddai distanti Dworakowska, 1977:11

Shaddai typicus, Dworakowska, 1993:100; Yu, Yang, Jiao, Song & Shi, 2018:15

This species was described by Distant in 1918 from India and Yu et al. (2018) first reported it from Guizhou Province of China. Here we provide the first record from Xizang and provide illustrations.

Description. Length of male 5.21mm. Crown black with beige part (Figs 11C, 11D). Pronotum black with beige anterior margin and yellowish posterior margin. Scutum and scutellum black with middle part yellow (Figs 11A, 11B). Forewing dark brown with yellow stripes, apical cells infuscate (Fig. 11G). Hind wing infuscate with brown veins (Fig. 11H).

Abdominal apodeme reaching to 3rd sternite (Fig. 11J). Pygofer side with rounded dorsal protrusion and sharp ventral protrusion pointing ventrad; disc with numerous microsetae, posterior and posterodorsal margin with rigid setae (Fig. 11F). Subgenital plate exceeding posterior margin of pygofer (Fig. 11E), with row of macrosetae and 2 rows of microsetae on outer and inner margin laterally (Fig. 11L). Paramere long with apex hooked (Fig. 11M). Connective broad V-shaped (Fig. 11I). Aedeagus with dorsal apodeme and preatrium developed, shaft tapering to apex, gonopore subapical (Fig. 11K).

Note. The specimens collected from Xizang are darker than those from Guizhou (Yu et al., 2018, page 16, Figs 1–6; page 17, Figs 21–24) and its forewing color pattern is more contrasting.

Material examined. 1♂ 1♀, China, Xizang Province, Nyingchi City, Medog County, Green Village, alt. 1000- 1500m, 4-VIII-2022, coll. Qingquan Xue.