Niphadoses Common, 1960

Chen, Fu-Qiang & Wu, Chun-Sheng, 2014, Taxonomic review of the subfamily Schoenobiinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) from China, Zoological Systematics 39 (2), pp. 163-208 : 189

3.5 Niphadoses Common, 1960 ( Figs 5 , 77 , 87–88 , 102 )

Niphadoses Common, 1960 . Austr. J. Zool., 8(2): 330. Type species: Niphadoses palleucus Common, 1960 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. The genus can be diagnosed by valva constricted from base to apex and gnathos obviously short.

Description. Head with frons little protruded; proboscis reduced; antennae weakly serrated in male and filiform in female; labial palpi porrect, the third segment about 1/3 as long as the second; maxillary palpi porrect, apex expanded. Female with anal tuft on the seventh abdominal segment.

Wings ( Fig. 5 ). Forewing with Sc and R 1 closed or anastomosed; R 2 from upper angle of cell, closed to R 3+4; R 3 stalked with R 4, from upper angle of cell; R 5 from upper angle of cell; M 1 below upper angle of cell; M 2 and M 3 from lower angle of cell; Cu 1 and Cu 2 before lower angle of cell. Hindwing with Sc+R 1 and Rs stalked, more or less stalked with M 1 at base; M 2 and M 3 from lower angle of cell; Cu 1 and Cu 2 before lower angle of cell.

Male genitalia. Uncus with base broad and apex pointed; gnathos thin and short, with apex pointed; tegumen well developed, with sclerotized dorsal ridge X-shaped; subteguminal process well developed, little sclerotized; valva constricted from base to apex; juxta plate-like, apex curved in the central; coremata present; aedeagus slender, cornutus present; ductus ejaculatorius arising from middle of aedeagus.

Female genitalia. Anal papillae broad, covered with long setae; apophyses anterioris and posterioris slender; ostium bursae broad, membranous, wrinkled; ductus bursae membranous, relatively short, no longer than corpus bursae; ductus seminalis arising below ostium bursae; corpus bursae usually round.

Distribution. China, Australia, New Guinea.

Remarks. The genus comprises five species, including one species from China.

Figures

Figs 1–6. Venations. 1. Scirpophaga. 2. Schoenobius. 3. Donacaula. 4. Catagela. 5. Niphadoses. 6. Patissa.

Figs 73–80. Male genitalia. a. Aedeagus. 73. Schoenobius scirpus sp.nov. 74. Sc. sp. 75. Catagela adjurella. 76. C. rubelineola. 77. Niphadoses dengcaolites. 78. Patissa fulvosparsa. 79. P. minima. 80. P. tenuousa. Scale bars=1 mm.

Figs 87–94. Adults. 87. Niphadoses dengcaolites, male. 88. N. dengcaolites, female. 89. Patissa fulvosparsa. 90. P. minima. 91. Patissa tenuousa. 92. Ramila marginella. 93. R. acciusalis. 94. R. minima sp.nov.

Figs 102–107. Female genitalia. 102. Niphadoses dengcaolites. 103. Patissa fulvosparsa. 104. P. minima. 105. P. tenuousa. 106. Ramila marginella. 107. R. acciusalis. Scale bars=1mm.