Scoparia yamanakai Inoue, 1982

Li, Weichun, Li, Houhun & Nuss, Matthias, 2010, Taxonomic revision of Scoparia Haworth, 1811 (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Scopariinae) from China, Zootaxa 2609, pp. 1-33 : 25-26

19. Scoparia yamanakai Inoue, 1982

Scoparia yamanakai Inoue, 1982: 311 , pl. 36 fig. 35, pl. 300 fig. 2, pl. 301 fig. 3; Inoue, 1994: 345, figs. 1, 2, 24, 35; Bae et al., 2003: 61, fig. 2. Type locality: Matumoto, Nagano pref., Japan.

Scoparia yamanakai Inoue : Song & He, 1997, in Yang (ed.): 1165, fig. 145 (misidentification).

Material examined. Holotype: Ƥ, "Holo- | type ", "Nagano pref. Matumo- | to C. (yasudo, 760 m) | 26, VI, 1976 | N. Hirano leg.", "slide 7425 | (Ƥ)","Inoue Coll. | B. M. 1992-71", " Holotype | Scoparia yamanakai | Inoue (1982) ", " Type status | verified | K. Buckmaster 1993", " Type | photographed | in colour", BMNH.

Additional material: China: 2 ƤƤ, Wenshui, Shengnongjia (31.45°N, 110.40°E), Hubei Province, 1700 m, 21.vii.2003, leg. Shulian Hao (genitalia slide no. LWC05043).

Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished easily from its congeners by the ductus bursae distinctly enlarged into ovate before the colliculum, and the swollen part is nearly as large as the corpus bursae.

Distribution. China (Hubei, Jilin); Japan, Russia.

Remarks. Scoparia yamanakai was recorded by Song & He (1997) based on the four male specimens collected in Hubei and Sichuan provinces of China (1 3, Shiping, Fengdu, Sichuan Province, 610 m, 10.ix.1994; 3 3, Longmenhe, Xingshan, Hubei Province, 1350 m, 13.vii.1994). Judging from the figure of male genitalia ( Song & He 1997: fig. 145), this could be a misidentification, but we are unable to recognize which species it is by the simple drawing.