Magnificus jiuzhiensis Yan, 2000

Grehan, John R., Mielke, Carlos G. C., Minet, Joël, Ignatev, Nikolai, Buchsbaum, Ulf & Xue, Dayong, 2021, Taxonomic composition and monophyly of the genus Magnificus (Lepidoptera Hepialoidea: Hepialidae), Zootaxa 4920 (3), pp. 339-358 : 344

Magnificus jiuzhiensis Yan, 2000

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Magnificus jiuzhiensis Yan (2000: 1) .— Wang & Yao (2011: 48)

Reference specimen. Holotype ♂ GAAH: China, Qinghai, Jiuzhi Dehelong , 3,800–3,900 m, 15-VII-1996.

Original description ( Yan 2000). “ Wingspan male 42 mm, female 49 mm. Eye s dark or rusty brown; antennae filiform, short and slender with 22 segments; labial palps two segmented, foreleg tibial spurs absent, FW with marbled spots and stripes with grey-brown and gold, outer band with white not reaching to posterior edge but turning triangulary to basal part of forewing. FW vein Sc branched, R2 [Rs3] and R3 [Rs4] longer than stalk. HW of ♂ white, ♀ grey-brown and basally white. Male genitalia without lobe or tooth on tegumen and valva shape of tangerine section, saccus prominent, vinculum with deep medial notch. Female genitalia with deep and broad medial incision of dorsal plate, lateral margin strongly sclerotized; subanal plate narrow and rectangular; anterior and posterior margins of antevaginalis medially emarginate, laterally angled and tapering to narrow process laterally.”

Female. Unknown.

Etymology. Presumably derived from the location Jiuzhi.

Flight period. Early summer—July.

Remarks. Diagram of male genitalia ( Fig. 14 ) shows the medial notch of the posterior margin of the saccus to be shallow compared to other species.

Figures

FIGURES 10–20. Genitalia. 10, Magnificus bouvieri male holotype genitalia, ventral view. Photo by Joël Minet; 11, Magnificus dirschi male holotype genitalia, ventral view. Photo by Théo Léger; 12, Magnificus regius genitalia: a, male syntype, ventral view, dissection ESN 2845(MfN). Photo by Théo Léger; b, male, ventral view (ZSBS). Photo by Ulf Buchsbaum; c, male, ventral (left) and lateral (right) (MWM). Photo by Nikolai Ignatev; 13, Magnificus roseus male genitalia, ventral view, (a) holotype (MNHN). Photo by Joël Minet, (b) (ZSBS). Photo by Ulf Buchsbaum; Fig. 16. Magnificus jiuzhiensis genitalia: (a) holotype male, ventral view (from Yan 2000); 15, ‘Hepialiscus sylvina Linnaeus, 1761’, male, ventral view (from Chu & Wang 1985b: fig. 31 and Zhu et al. 2004: fig. 120); 16, Magnificus jiuzhiensis, female external posterior view (from Yan 2000); 17, Magnificus miniatus female holotype external genitalia, posterior view. Photo by Dayong Xu; 18, Magnificus regius female external posterior and lateral interior view (MWM). Photo by Nikolai Ignatev; 19, Magnificus zhiduoensis female holotype external posterior view (from Yan 2000); 20, Magnificus sp. female external posterior view (MWM). Photo by Nikolai Ignatev.