Etiella walsinghamella Ragonot, 1888

Liu, Hong-Xia & Li, Hou-Hun, 2014, Taxonomic study of the genus Etiella Zeller (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae) in China, Zoological Systematics 39 (1), pp. 149-153 : 153

Etiella walsinghamella Ragonot, 1888 New recorded to China ( Figs 4 , 7 )

Etiella walsinghamella Ragonot, 1888: 27 ; Ragonot, 1893: 577; Whalley, 1973: 14.

Etiella flavofasciella Inoue, 1959: 299 .

Material examined. 1♂, Datian Nature Reserves (19º06'N, 108º48'E; alt. 100 m), Dongfang , Hainan Province, 27 April 2009, coll. Qing Jin and Bing-Bing Hu.

Diagnosis. Adult ( Fig. 4 ) with wingspan 22 mm. This species is similar to E. zinckenella (Treitschke, 1832) in the male genitalia, but can be distinguished by the sinus of the male antennae greyish brown on the ventral surface, and the lateral arms of the juxta weakly sclerotized distally and straight apically ( Fig. 7 ). In E. zinckenella , the sinus of the male antennae is slivery white on the ventral surface, and the lateral arms of the juxta are heavily sclerotized distally and rounded apically.

Distribution. China (Hainan), Japan, Korea, Australia, New Guinea.

Funding This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31093430 and 31172141).

Figures

Figs 1−4. Adults of Etiella spp. 1. E. brevis sp. nov., holotype, ♂. 2. Head of E. brevis sp. nov., paratype, ♀. 3. E. grisea Hampson, ♀. 4. E. walsinghamella Ragonot, ♂. Scale bars: 1, 3−4 = 2.0mm, 2 = 0.5mm.

Figs 5−9. Genitalia of Etiella spp. 5−7. Male. 8−9. Female. 5. Etiella brevis sp. nov., holotype, slide No. LHX11027. 6. E. grisea Hampson, slide No. LHX12338. 7. E. walsinghamella Ragonot, slide No. LHX12131. 8. E. brevis sp. nov., paratype, slide No. LHX12129. 9. E. grisea Hampson, slide No. LHX12339. Scale bars = 1.0mm.