Atkinsonia clerodendronella Stainton, 1859

Wang, Shuxia, Guan, Wei & Sinev, Sergey Yu., 2016, Taxonomic study of the genus Atkinsonia Stainton, 1859 (Lepidoptera, Stathmopodidae) in China, with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 4208 (1) : -

Atkinsonia clerodendronella Stainton, 1859

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Atkinsonia clerodendronella Stainton, 1859: 125 ; Kasy, 1976: 426. Type locality: India (Calcutta). Oedematopoda clerodendronella (Stainton) : Walsingham , 1889: 19.

Material examined. Holotype, ♀, INDIA: Calcutta , 1858, leg. Atkinson ( BMNH).

Additional material. CHINA: 1 ♀, Dongtang (25°18′N, 107°56′E), Maolan , Guizhou Province, 22.x.1988, leg. Qile Yang, genitalia slide No. L99098 .

Redescription. Adult ( Fig. 10 ) with wingspan 13.0 mm. Head brown; occiput pale brown, with suffused ferrugineous red scales. Antenna dark brown, flagellum with dense pectinate scaling from basal 1/3 to 5/6 on dorsal edge. Patagium, thorax and tegula ferrugineous red. Forewing ferrugineous red (somewhat worn); cilia brown, tinged with ferrugineous red, apex entirely ferrugineous red. Hindwing brown, paler in basal half, with scattered red scales; dorsum with semi-elliptical hyaline space at base; cilia pale brown. Legs blackish brown, with yellowish white scales.

Female genitalia ( Fig. 23 ). Papillae anales length about 1.5 times of width, with short setae. Intersegmental membrane between papillae anales and eighth abdominal segment about 1.5 times length of papillae anales. Apophysis posterior about 1.5 times length of apophysis anterior. Eighth segment straight on posterior margin, with long setae; eighth sternite sub-triangular in anterior 1/3; eighth tergite rectangular. Antrum sub-rectangular, length about 1.5 times of width. Ductus bursae narrow posteriorly, slightly broadened towards corpus bursae, about half length of corpus bursae. Corpus bursae sub-elliptical, broadest at posterior 1/3; two signa about same size, subrounded, scobinate, with an obtuse triangular ridge medially, dentate along one margin. Ductus seminalis arising from anterior 1/4 of ductus bursae, about two times length of corpus bursae, broad in basal half, with dilated vesicle between middle and 3/4, thin in distal 1/4.

Biology. In India, larvae fed in webs up the top of a shoot on Clerodendrum infortunatum L. and Anisomeles indica (L.) Kuntze ( Lamiaceae ) ( Maxwell-Lefroy & Howlett, 1909; Fletcher, 1920).

Distribution. China (Guizhou); India.

Diagnosis. This species is similar to A. butalistis superficially, and the differences between them are stated under the latter species.

Remarks. This species is recorded in China for the first time.

Figures

FIGURES 5 – 10. Adults of Atkinsonia spp. 5, head (lateral view), A. beijingana (Yang), ♂; 6, hyaline space, ditto; 6 a, hyaline space, A. parignipicta sp. nov., holotype, ♂; 7, A. beijingana (Yang), ♂; 7 a, ditto; 8, A. brevisaccula sp. nov., holotype, ♂; 9, A. butalistis (Strand), ♀; 10, A. clerodendronella Stainton, ♀. Scale bars = 2.0 mm except 5 ‾ 6 a = 0.5 mm.

FIGURES 21 – 24. Female genitalia of Atkinsonia spp. 21, A. beijingana (Yang), slide No. L 95380; 22, A. butalistis (Strand), slide No. NK-GW 07; 23, A. clerodendronella Stainton, slide No. L 99098; 24, A. swetlanae Sinev, slide No. GW 14214. Scale bars = 0.5 mm.