Homaloxestis miscogana Wu, 1997

Yu, Shuai & Wang, Shuxia, 2020, Three new species of the genus Homaloxestis Meyrick, 1910 (Lepidoptera Lecithoceridae) from China, Zootaxa 4767 (4), pp. 589-597 : 594

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4767.4.8
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scientific name	Homaloxestis miscogana Wu, 1997
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Homaloxestis miscogana Wu, 1997 View in CoL

( Figs 3 View FIGURES 1–4 , 7 View FIGURES 5–8 , 11 View FIGURES 9–12 , 15 View FIGURES 13–16 , 19 View FIGURES 17–20 )

Homaloxestis miscogana Wu, 1997 View in CoL , Fauna Sinica, Insecta View in CoL , 7: 151. TL: China (Sichuan Province). TD: IZCAS.

Material examined. CHINA, Shaanxi Province: 2♂, 6♀, Xunyangba, Ningxia County, 1400 m, 4.VIII.2014, leg. Haili Yu, Yao Fei, Kaili Liu & Jiuyang Luo, slide Nos. YS19158 ♂, YS19159 ♀; 3♂, Huoditang Forest Farm, 1530 m, 28.VII.2015, leg. Yongyan Li & Jialiang Zhuang; 1♂, Longshan Village, Pingli County, 1466 m, 5.VIII.2016, leg. Weixing Feng & Wentao Shi.

Diagnosis. Adult ( Figs. 3 View FIGURES 1–4 , 7 View FIGURES 5–8 ) wingspan 16.5‒18.5 mm. This species can be distinguished from its congeners by the quadrate uncus lobe and the juxta with a sharply tipped process exceeding posterior margin in the male genitalia ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 9–12 ).

Male seventh sternite ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 13–16 ) membranous with weakly sclerotized anterolateral rib and moderately sclerotized posterolateral rib; posterolateral rib broad at base, narrowed to apex, reaching anterior margin of eighth sternite.

Female genitalia ( Fig. 19 View FIGURES 17–20 ). Eighth sternite obtuse on posterior margin. Apophyses posteriores about twice length of apophyses anteriores. Antrum membranous, sub-rectangular, wider than long. Ductus bursae wrinkled, longer than corpus bursae, with numerous conic spines in posterior half; ductus seminalis slender, arising from about posterior 1/4 of ductus bursae, with dense spinules on inner wall. Corpus bursae ovate; signum small, subrectangular, located posterior to middle, with a triangular process arising from its posterior margin.

Distribution. China (Shaanxi, Sichuan).

Remarks. This species was described originally based on a single male collected from Sichuan, China. The type specimen is deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing (IZCAS).

The female of this species is described for the first time in this paper.