Lithacodia melaleuca Hampson, 1910
Lepidoptera Phalaenae
Lithacodia shansiensis Berio, 1977
Deltote
D. walonga
D. bankiana
D. uncula
D. nemorum
D. deceptoria
D. melaleuca
Lithacodia shansiensis
D. melaleuca
D. melaleuca
D. walonga
D. walonga
Deltote
D. bankiana
D. uncula
D. nemorum
D. deceptoria
D. melaleuca
D. walonga
Deltote
D. bankiana
D. uncula
D. nemorum
D. deceptoria
D. melaleuca
D. walonga
Lithacodia melaleuca
Maliattha melaleuca
Lithacodia shansiensis
Maliattha melaleuca
Lithacodia shansiensis
A review of the genus Deltote Reichenbah, Leipzig, 1817 with description of a new species from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Eustrotiinae)
Han, H. L.
Kononenko, V. S.
Zootaxa
2015
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4
580
587
Hampson, 1910
Hampson
1910
[151,588,1802,1828]
Insecta
Noctuidae
Deltote
Animalia
Lepidoptera
2
582
Arthropoda
species
melaleuca
comb. nov.
Lithacodia melaleuca Hampson, 1910, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenaein the British Museum, 10: 508, Pl. 164: 3, ( Holotype: female, Central China, Chusan Is. [BMNH, London]). Synonymy: Lithacodia shansiensis Berio, 1977 syn. n. Annali del Museo Civico de Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria, 81: 229, fig. 14, ( holotype: male: China, South Shaanxi, Tsinling, Ta-pei-shan, ZFMK, Bonn). FIGURES 1–10. Deltotespp., adults and habitat of D. walonga. 1. D. bankiana, Russia, Ural, KN; 2. D. uncula, Russia, Ural, KN; 3. D. nemorum, Japan, FMNH; 4. D. deceptoria, Russia, Transbaikalia, HNHM; 5. D. melaleuca, holotype Lithacodia shansiensis, ZFMK; 6. D. melaleuca, illustration by Hampson (1910); 7. D. melaleuca, China, Beijing; 8, 9. D. walonga, China, Prov, Yunnan (8— male, holotype; 9—female, paratype). 10. Gardens, meadow and clearings at elevation 2400 m—habitat of D. walongain South-West China, Prov. Yunnan. FIGURES 11–16. Deltotespp., male genitalia. 11. D. bankiana, S Korea, genit. prep. ASB 5045; 12. D. uncula, S Korea, genit. prep. HHL-416-1; 13. D. nemorumN China, genit. prep., HHL-1167-1; 14. D. deceptoria, Russia, Primorye, genit. prep., VK 741; 15. D. melaleuca, N China, genit. prep. HHL-3067-1; 16. D. walonga, holotype, SW China, genit. prep. HHL-1380-1. FIGURES 17–22. Deltotespp., female genitalia. 17. D. bankiana, S Korea, genit. prep. ASB 5238; 18. D. uncula, Russia, Primorye, genit. prep. VK 739; 19. D. nemorumN China, genit. prep., VK 17/05; 20. D. deceptoria, Russia, Primorye, genit. prep., VK 740; 21. D. melaleuca, China, genit. prep. HHL-1226-2; 22. D. walonga, paratype, SW China, genit. prep. HHL-1381-2. References. Draudt 1950: 136 ( Lithacodia melaleuca); Warren 1914: 227, Pl. 52, row b ( Maliattha melaleuca); Poole, 1989: 594 ( Lithacodia shansiensis), ibid.: 616 ( Maliattha melaleuca); Hua, 2005: 231 ( Lithacodia shansiensis).
Material examined. Typeseries of Lithacodia shansiensis: 1 male, Typus/ Tapaishan im Tsiling, Sued Shensi, ca 1700 m 2.vii.1936. H. Höne/ Lithacodia shansiensisBerio. Typ.Male. Det Berio. Holotypeof Lithacodia shansiensis Berio, 1977; 1 femaleMien-shan (Prov. Shansi) Obere Höhe ca. 2000 m. 28.vi.1937. H. Höne/ Paratypus/ Lithacodia shansiensisBerio, Allot. Det Berio, female; 1 male, Paratypus/ Tapaishan im Tsiling, Sued Shensi, ca 1700 m 23.vi.1936. H. Höne/ Lithacodia shansiensisBerio. Parat.Male. Det Berio [ ZFMK]. Other material examined: 19 specimensfrom Tapaishan, Hoengshan, Mokanshan, West Tienmushan, Wenchow (Coll. Höne), 1 maleKuatung [Guangsi) (coll. Klapperich) [ ZFMK]; 2 males, Beijing, Xiaolongmen, 17.vii.2008, Han H.L. & Qui M.J. leg.; 1 male?Prov. Liaoning, Anshan, Qianshan Beauty Spot, 12.viii.2007(leg. QY Yang, HL Han), slide No. HHL 3067-1; 1 male, Prov. Liaoning, Anshan, Qianshan Beauty Spot, 12.viii.2007(leg. Q.Y. Yang, H.L. Han). [ NEFU]; genitalia prep. China, male HHL- 3067-1; female HHL-1226-2.
Diagnosis.No one species among Palaearctic Eustrotiinaesimilar to L. melaleuca( Figs 5–7). This small species (wingspan 17–18 mm) could be recognised by dark brownish-black coloration of thorax and forewing with two large clear white spots in costal and subtornal areas. Wing pattern formed by black tinged with brown subbasal line, indistinct black medial line and two large triangular white spots in costal and subtornal parts of wing, subtornal spots tinged outwardly with brownish, in some specimens white marks may connect by thin diffused or interrupted white line; orbicular and reniform hardly traceable, as group of diffused brown-black scales surrounded with black; antemedial line wide, black, with diffused brown line, which extended to inner part of white subtornal spot; subterminal line as interrupted row of black streaks; terminal line black, cilia black with dark-brown scales. Hindwing blackish-grey, cilia pale, whitish-grey.
Male genitalia( Fig. 15). Male genitalia are similar to those of other species of Deltote. Uncus rather long thin, slightly extended and hooked apically; tegumen broad, with large flattened penicular lobes; vinculum rather narrow, Vlike; juxta plate-like, trapezoid, and constricted apically; valva broad basally, with parallel margins, slightly extended apically and with rather deep excision in the costal part of the apex. Aedeagus straight, with long coecum; carina hooked apically; vesica membranous, without cornuti. Female genitalia( Fig. 21). Ovipositor narrow, elongated, apophyses anteriores and posteriores thin, almost equal in length; antrum funnel-like, slightly sclerotised; ductus bursae moderate in length, flattened, sclerotised; corpus bursae long, narrow in caudal part, sack-like extended in proximal part.
Distribution. China(Beijing, Provinces Liaoning; Shaanxi, Zhejiang). Mesophilous species occurs in low montane broadleaved forest meadows. Notes.The synonymy of Lithacodia shansiensiswith Lithacodia melaleucais established by comparing of the typeseries of L. shansiensisin the collection of ZFMK with colour illustration of the typeof Lithacodia melaleuca Hampson 1910and subsequent illustration by Warren (1914). The L. shansiensisdescribed by Berio (1977)from Chinawas omitted in the monographs of Chinese Noctuidae( Chen 1982, 1999), but referred in the checklist of ChinaInsects (Hua 2001); Warren referred the species in the genus Maliattha; Poole (1989)included to the World Catalogue both names as valid as Lithacodia shansiensisand Maliattha melaleuca. Here we transfer the Lithacodia melaleucato the genus Deltote.