Nola hutiaoxiaensis Yu & Hu, 2024

Yu, Yong & Hu, Yan-Qing, 2024, Four new species and two new records of Nola Leach, 1815 from China (Lepidoptera: Nolidae: Nolinae), Zootaxa 5477 (4), pp. 494-500 : 497-499

Nola hutiaoxiaensis Yu & Hu sp. nov.

( Figs. 14–16 )

Type material. Holotype: male, Hutiaoxia Scenic Area, Shangri-la , Yunnan Prov., 26–28.iv.2004, leg. Min Wang. Paratype: 1 male, with the same data as the holotype .

Diagnosis. Externally, the new species can be distinguished with other Nola species by the remarkable black median fascia on the forewings. In the male genitalia, the new species resembles Nola yelagarciai László, Ronkay & Ronkay, 2014 by the apically bilobate valva and the short arms, but the difference features are found as follows: the new species has a S-shaped harpe and a short aedeagus with a long cornutus, while N. yelagarciai has an apically slender and basally wide harpe and a long aedeagus with a short cornutus.

Description. Adult ( Fig. 14 ). Wingspan 17–18 mm. Head and collar white; labial palpus white with brown. Thorax and abdomen grayish brown. Forewing ground color grayish brown, a black median fascia between the antemedial line and the medial line; the basal line undistinguished; the antemedial line black, arc-shaped; the medial line black, zigzagged; the postmedial line brown, wavy; the subterminal line brown, arc-shaped, close to outer margin; the terminal line faint and brown; cilia brown. Hind wing ground color grayish white; discal spot pale black.

Male genitalia ( Figs. 15, 16 ). Uncus degenerated; tegumen medium size; valva bilobate apically, the dorsal arm longer than the ventral arm; the dorsal arm sclerotized at the costal margin, rounded at the apex; the ventral arm sclerotized at the ventral margin; harpe S-shaped, pointed at the apex; sacculus medium size; saccus V-shaped. Aedeagus short, with an anteriorly curved spine; vesica without cornuti.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. China (Prov. Yunnan).

Etymology. The species name is derived from the name of the type-locality, the Hutiaoxia Scenic Area, Prov. Yunnan.

Figures

FIGURES. 11–21. Nola spp., adult habitus and genitalia. 11–13. Nola mojiangensis sp. nov. 11. Male habitus (holotype); 12, 13. Male genitalia (holotype). 14–16. Nola hutiaoxiaensis sp. nov. 14. Male habitus (holotype); 15, 16. Male genitalia (holotype). 17, 18. Nola ochrolopha. 17. Female habitus; 18. Female genitalia. 19–21. Nola meilingchani. 19. Male habitus; 20, 21. Male genitalia.