Luxiaria tephrosaria ( Moore, 1868 )

Jiang, Nan, Xue, Dayong & Han, Hongxiang, 2014, A review of Luxiaria Walker and its allied genus Calletaera Warren (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Ennominae) from China, Zootaxa 3856 (1), pp. 73-99 : 79-80

Luxiaria tephrosaria ( Moore, 1868)

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Acidalia tephrosaria Moore, 1868 , Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1867 (3): 643. Syntypes including 1 ♂, India: Bengal. Luxiaria tephrosaria: Debauche, 1941 , Mem. Mus. Hist. nat. Belg., (2) 22: 25.

Diagnosis. The diagnostic characters of the external morphology and the male genitalia are given under the previous species. In the female genitalia, the lamella postvaginalis is concave posteriorly with a rounded protrusion laterally, as in L. amasa ; the area near the ostium bursae is weakly sclerotized; a pair of narrow digitiform processes of the antrum is characteristic.

Material examined. CHINA: Yunnan ( IZCAS): 1 ♂ 1♀, Tengchong, Heinitang, 1930 m, 28–30.V.1992, coll. Xue Dayong; 1 ♂, Tengchong, Danzha Linchang, 2500 m, 2–4.VI.1992, coll. Xue Dayong; 1 ♂ 1♀, Tengchong, Dahaoping, 5–7.VIII.2007, coll. Xue Dayong & Wu Chunguang; 1♀, Baoshan, Baihualing, 1520 m, 11–13.VIII.2007, coll. Wu Chunguang. Tibet ( IZCAS): 1♀, Bomi, Tangmai, 2100 m, 31.VIII.2005, coll. Wang Xuejian.

Distribution. China (Yunnan, Tibet), India, Indonesia (Borneo).

Remarks. L. tephrosaria is newly recorded from China, where it is represented by the nominate subspecies.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 28. Adults. 1 – 5. Luxiaria mitorrhaphes. 1, male (with a black patch at the anal margin of forewing, Zhejiang); 2, ditto, underside; 3, male (without a black patch at the anal margin of forewing, Zhejiang); 4, female (Fujian); 5, ditto, underside; 6 – 9. L. acutaria. 6, male (Tibet); 7, ditto, underside; 8, female (Tibet); 9, ditto, underside; 10 – 13. L. amasa. 10, male (Tibet); 11, ditto, underside; 12, female (Yunnan); 13, ditto, underside; 14 – 20. L. emphatica. 14, male (holotype, India, BMNH); 15, male (syntype of Luxiaria versiformis, Peninsular Malaysia, BMNH); 16, male (holotype of Luxiaria costinota, Taiwan, BMNH); 17, male (Guangxi); 18, ditto, underside; 19, female (Hainan); 20, ditto, underside; 21 – 24. L. tephrosaria. 21, male (Yunnan); 22, ditto, underside; 23, female (Yunnan); 24, ditto, underside; 25 – 28. L. phyllosaria. 25, male (Guangxi); 26, ditto, underside; 27, female (Hainan); 28, ditto, underside. Scale bar = 1 cm.

FIGURES 54 – 59. Male genitalia. 54, Luxiaria tephrosaria; 55, L. phyllosaria; 56, Calletaera obliquata; 57, C. obvia sp. nov. (paratype); 58, C. acuticornuta sp. nov. (paratype); 59, C. rotundicornuta sp. nov. (paratype). Scale bar = 1 mm.

FIGURES 65 – 76. Aedeagus. 65, Luxiaria mitorrhaphes; 66, L. acutaria; 67, L. amasa; 68, L. emphatica (holotype, BMNH); 69, Luxiaria emphatica (holotype of Luxiaria costinota, BMNH); 70, L. emphatica; 71, L. tephrosaria; 72, L. phyllosaria; 73, Calletaera obliquata; 74, C. obvia sp. nov. (paratype); 75, C. acuticornuta sp. nov. (paratype); 76, C. rotundicornuta sp. nov. (paratype). Scale bar = 1 mm.

FIGURES 77 – 98. Aedeagus and sternites of of male and female abdomen. 77 – 81. Aedeagus. 77, Calletaera consimilaria; 78, C. subexpressa; 79, C. postvittata (BMNH); 80, C. dentata sp. nov. (holotype); 81, C. trigonoprocessus sp. nov. (holotype). Scale bar = 1 mm. 82 – 84. Eighth sternite of male abdomen. 82, Luxiaria phyllosaria; 83, Calletaera obliquata; 84, C. subexpressa. 85 – 98. Seventh sternite of female abdomen. 85, Luxiaria mitorrhaphes; 86, L. acutaria; 87, L. amasa; 88, L. emphatica; 89, L. tephrosaria; 90, L. phyllosaria; 91, Calletaera obliquata; 92, C. obvia sp. nov. (paratype); 93, C. acuticornuta sp. nov. (paratype); 94, C. rotundicornuta sp. nov. (paratype); 95, C. consimilaria; 96, C. subexpressa; 97, C. dentata sp. nov. (paratype); 98, C. trigonoprocessus sp. nov. (paratype).

FIGURES 99 – 106. Female genitalia. 99, Luxiaria mitorrhaphes; 100, L. acutaria; 101, L. amasa; 102, L. emphatica; 103, L. tephrosaria; 104, L. phyllosaria; 105, Calletaera obliquata; 106, C. obvia sp. nov. (paratype). Scale bar = 1 mm.