Thliptoceras gladialis ( Leech, 1889 )

Zhang, Dandan, Xu, Jiawen & Li, Jinwei, 2014, Review of the genus Thliptoceras Warren, 1890 (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Pyraustinae) from the Oriental region of China, Zootaxa 3796 (2), pp. 265-286 : 269-270

Thliptoceras gladialis ( Leech, 1889)

Figs. 1 , 6, 7, 17, 18, 31, 40

Botys gladialis Leech, 1889: 67 , pl. 3, figs. 5, 15. Type locality: China, Foochau. Crocidophora rufitinctalis Hampson, 1918: 185 .

Thliptoceras gladiale: Munroe, 1967: 723 .

DIagnosIs. Wing expanse 23–26 mm. Thliptoceras gladialis has the narrow, modified wings of the artatalis group in the male, of greyish yellow colour in the male, more grey towards termen, and deeper yellow with orange tinge in the female with a grey shade along termen. It shares a conically projecting frons with T. bicuspidatum . The antennal base in T. gladialis is unmodified in the male. Male genitalia with narrow, distally rounded valva, smooth, weakly concave costa with a minute spine at apex; juxta hexagonal; anellus amorphously membranous with paired thumb-shaped sclerotizations bearing minute spines; sacculus process very small and short, nipple-shaped. Female genitalia with antrum long, funnel-shaped, ductus bursae long, irregularly coiled; signum diagnostic, large (wider than half diameter of corpus bursae), bipartite, angles bearing carina rounded and widely separated, other two angles extended and narrow but weakly sclerotized.

MaterIal examIned. CHINA, Guangdong: 1 ♂, Kangle, Guangzhou, 9.IV.1959; 1 ♂, White Cloud Mountain, P’an-yu District, Canton, 23.V.1938, coll. W. E. Roffmann; 1 ♀, Mt. Wutongshan, 18.IV.1998, coll. Jia Fenglong; 6 ♂, 1 ♀, Heshan County, 29.V.2002, 27–28.III.2003, coll. Liu Guilin; 24 ♂, 26 ♀, Mt. Danxiashan, alt. 96 m, 408 m, 15.IV., 19.IV., 30.V.–8.VI.2008, 6 –7.VI.2012, coll. Li Jinwei, He Fengxia and Chen Haidong et. al.; 8 ♂, 3 ♀, Shimentai, Yingde County, 27.V.2012, coll. Yang Lijun and Jia Qianju; Yunnan: 1 ♀, Longmen, Mengla County, 23.VII.2011, coll. Li Jinwei.

DIstrIbutIon. China (Fujian, Guangdong, Yunnan, Taiwan).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 2 Head of Thliptoceras spp. 1. Conically projecting frons of T. gladiali s (image reversed). 2. Modified antenna of T. semicirculare.