Scoparia brunnea ( Leraut, 1986 ) Leraut, 1986

Li, Weichun, Li, Houhun & Nuss, Matthias, 2010, Taxonomic revision of Scoparia Haworth, 1811 (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Scopariinae) from China, Zootaxa 2609, pp. 1-33 : 12

6. Scoparia brunnea ( Leraut, 1986) comb. n.

Sineudonia brunnea brunnea Leraut, 1986: 128 , fig. 7. Type locality: Shaowu, Fujian Province, China. Sineudonia brunnea hoenei Leraut, 1986: 130 . Type locality: Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China.

Material examined. China: Holotype of Sineudonia brunnea brunnea : Ƥ, " Holotype | Sineudonia | brunnea Ƥ Leraut ", "P. Leraut det. | prép. n° 1410 | Sineudonia Ƥ | brunnea Leraut ", "Shaowu – Fukien | (500 m) J. Klapperich | 5.8.1937 ", MINGA. Holotype of Sineudonia brunnea hoenei : Ƥ, " Holotype | Sineudonia | brunnea | hoenei | Ƥ Leraut", "P. Leraut det. | prép. n° 1409 | Sineudonia | brunnea Ƥ | hoenei Leraut", "Likiang. ( China). | Provinz Nord-Yuennan. | 4.10.1934. H. Höne", MINGA.

Diagnosis. This species is very similar to S. congestalis , but can be distinguished by the ductus bursae bending in S shape anterior to the colliculum, and the corpus bursae having two signa in the female genitalia. In S. congestalis , the ductus bursae has a loop before the colliculum, and the corpus bursae has one signum.

Distribution. China (Fujian, Yunnan).

Remarks. Scoparia brunnea was described based on two female specimens deposited in MINGA, which were investigated in this study. Sineudonia brunnea brunnea and S. brunnea hoenei possess all the general characters of Scoparia in the wing pattern (Forewing ground colour white, covered with pale brown scales; transverse fasciae white, postmedian line dentated towards distal discoidal stigma and forming an X together with subterminal line; stigmata blackish brown, antemedian stigmata streaklike, distal discoidal stigma Xshaped and connected with spot at costa. Hindwing white, slightly brown at termen) and in female genitalia (Papilla anale triangular, as long as apophysis posterior; tergite eight about two fifths length of apophysis anterior; ductus bursae thin and long, bended in S shape anterior to colliculum; corpus bursae ovate, with one larger and one smaller signum, composed of granules; appendix bursae ovate, arising from anterior margin of corpus bursae). Their wing pattern and female genitalia resemble those of Scoparia congestalis very much. Thus, we here transfer the two taxa to Scoparia .