Niphadoses dengcaolites Wang, Sung & Li, 1978

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 : 189-190

Niphadoses dengcaolites Wang, Sung & Li, 1978 ( Figs 77 , 87–88 , 102 )

Niphadoses dengcaolites Wang, Sung & Li, 1978 . Acta Ent. Sinica, 21 (2): 171; Wang, 1980. Economic Insect Fauna of China, 21: 66. Type locality: China, Jiangsu .

Description. Forewing pale yellow, suffused with fuscous scales along costa area; a dark fuscous patch at lower angle of cell; two dark fuscous spots present at trisections of vein 1A; a dark fuscous oblique line from apex to vein Cu 2; apex in female more pointed than that in male. In male genitalia, subteguminal process hook-like, weakly sclerotized; juxta plate-like; aedeagus slender, a curved cornutus present.

Material examined. IZCAS: Holotype ♂, Jiangsu, Suzhou, July 1974 . Paratypes. Jiangsu, Suzhou , 18♂, 35♀, August 1971, August 1972, July 1974, June 1976 , Shi-Mei Song, Jia-Wei Chen, Hong-Gui Qiu , Xiao-Yu Chen , Pei-Fu Guo , Han-Chen Jiang , Zhong-Lin Wu ; Hubei, Jingshan , 1♂, 3♀, 1975; Hunan, Changsha , 1♀, May 1976 . Others. Jiangsu, Suzhou , 1♂, 3♀, August 1972, Shi-Mei Song; Jiangxi, Yiyang , 4♂, 1♀, April 1958, Shi-Mei Song; Sichuan, Mt. Ming , 1♂, June 1973 .

Distribution. China (Jiangsu, Hubei, Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan).

Figures

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.