Hendecaneura axiotima (Meyrick, 1937)

Zhang, Aihuan, 2021, Study on the Genus Hendecaneura Walsingham from China (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), Zootaxa 4966 (3), pp. 359-366 : 364

4. Hendecaneura axiotima (Meyrick, 1937)

Eucosma axiotima Meyrick, 1937 , Tortricidae . In: Caradja & Meyrick, Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift Iris, 51: 178; Clarke, 1958, Catalogue of the type specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Museum (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick, 3: 348. TL: China, Yunnan Province, Likiang; TD: BMNH.

Eucosmodes axiotima: Kuznetzov, 1973 , Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 52(3): 690.

Hendecaneura axiotima: Razowski, 1989 , Nota Lepidopterologica, 11(4): 289; Kawabe et al., 1992, Tortricidae . In: Heppner & Inoue (eds.), Lepidoptera of Taiwan, 1(2): 107; Nasu, 1996, Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan, 47(4): 212; Kuznetzov, 2001, Tortricidae . In: Ler (ed.), Key to the Insects of Russian Far East, 5(3): 470; Liu & Li, 2002, Fauna Sinica, Insecta , 27: 342; Zhang & Li, 2005, Oriental Insects, 39: 111.

Forewing length 12.0 mm.

Specimen examined. 1 ♂, CHINA: Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous Region , Yadong County, alt. 2,950 m, 27 Au- gust 2003, coll. X. Wang & H. Xue, genitalia slide no. ZAH04110 .

Distribution. China (Sichuan, Taiwan, Xizang, Yunnan), India, Nepal.

Remarks. This species is similar to H. himalayana Nasu in forewing pattern (including male forewing with a circular pocket at base of 1A+2A vein) and male genitalia, but can be separated by a wide sinuate cream-white streak touching costal triangular cream-white patch apically, male genitalia with tegumen with a pair of large earlike lobes dorsolaterally and female genitalia with anterior edge of tergite VIII rounded, corpus bursa large globular with two equal signa. While in H. himalayana a wide sinuate cream-white streak does not touch costal triangular cream-white patch apically on forewing, in the male genitalia tegumen bears a pair of small mound-like lobes dorsolaterally and in the female genitalia tergite VIII is concave on anterior edge, corpus bursa is small oval with two signa different in size.