Thliptoceras caradjai Munroe & Mutuura, 1968

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 : 270-271

Thliptoceras caradjai Munroe & Mutuura, 1968

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Thliptoceras caradjai Munroe & Mutuura, 1968: 865 . Type locality: China, Jiangsu, Lungtan; Chejiang, West Tien-mu-shan.

DIagnosIs. Wing expanse 20–22 mm. Thliptoceras caradjai can be recognized by yellow ground colour and forewings with a distinctly sinuate antemedial line and fine postmedial line; a male antenna with a loose whirl of long scales at the base of the flagellum enclosing a small depression, followed by some lightly compressed flagellum segments. Male genitalia: costa of valva with subapical projection nearly triangular, followed by a nearly semicircular excavation; editum arising from nearly middle of valva; medial sacculus process expanded into a broad, rounded lobe; juxta long, plate-shaped, with basal part inflated; anellus doubled, long, band-like, scattered with scale-shaped minute tubercles; aedeagus with an oblique row of few small cornuti distally. Female genitalia with ostium flanked by a pair of sclerotised processes, antrum sclerotised, an anteriorly narrowing cylinder, followed by a short distorted membraneous zone and a sclerotised ring; ductus bursae short and wide, about twice diameter of corpus bursae.

MaterIal examIned. CHINA, Zhejiang: 3 ♂, 1 ♀, Sanmuping, Mt. Tianmushan, alt. 800 m, 15.VIII. 1999, coll. Li Houhun ( NKUM); Jiangxi: 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Daqiutian, Mt. Jiulianshan, alt. 500 m, 31.VIII. 2007, coll. Pang Hong; 1 ♂, Mt. Jiulianshan, 14.VII. 1975, coll. Song Shimei ( IZAS); 1 ♂, Mt. Jinggangshan, 1.VII. 2011, coll. Yang Lijun; Guizhou: 1 ♂, Jiangkou County, alt. 330 m, 27.V. 2002, coll. Wang Xinpu ( NKUM); 1 ♀, Suoluo, Chishui County, alt. 240 m, 22.IX. 2000, coll. Yu Haili ( NKUM); 1 ♂, Linjiang, Xishui County, alt. 500m, 24.IX. 2000, coll. Yu Haili ( NKUM).

DIstrIbutIon. China (Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Guizhou).