Rhinopalpa polynice (Cramer, [1779])

He, Qiu-Ju, Shi, Wen, Li, Chen-Yang, Yi, Chuan-Hui, Jiang, Zhuo-Heng, Hu, Shao-Ji & Zhang, Hui-Hong, 2021, The first record of the monospecific genus Rhinopalpa (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from China, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 70975-70975 : 70975

Rhinopalpa polynice (Cramer, [1779])

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Wen Shi ; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; disposition: in collection; Taxon : scientificName: Rhinopalpa polynice (Cramer, [1779]); kingdom: Animalia ; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Lepidoptera ; family: Nymphalidae ; genus: Rhinopalpa ; specificEpithet: polynice; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Cramer, [1779]); vernacularName: The Wizard ; taxonomicStatus: accepted; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan Province; county: Yuanyang County; locality: Shalatuo Village ; verbatimElevation: 928m; verbatimCoordinates: 23°6.047'N, 102°34.43'E; Identification: identifiedBy: Huihong Zhang; dateIdentified: 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: sweep net; year: 2020; month: 9; day: 29; habitat: Evergreen broad-leaved forest; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

Female (Fig. 1 ): Forewing length 37 mm. Body brown covered with short hair dorsally, labial palpi brown, antenna straight and dark brown, legs greyish-yellow. Forewing: broad triangular with obvious zigzag termen, two angles at ends of veins M1 and CuA2, forming hook-shaped apex; upperside brownish in basal one third, discal area reddish-brown, postdiscal to termen area dark brown, space CuA2 with small subterminal black spot; underside dark brown, six fine purplish zigzag lines in brown basal area, six serial subterminal ocelli with purple pupil, brown iris and purple ring, terminal area with two parallel narrow purple wavy lines. Hindwing: square with obvious zigzag termen, acute short tail at end of vein M2; upperside with same colour configuration as forewing, three small subterminal black spots in spaces M1 to M3; underside with same colour configuration as forewing, including the purple lines in basal area, seven serial subterminal ocelli as those of forewing.

Female genitalia (Fig. 2 ): Papillae anales round and narrow. Lamella antevaginalis sclerotised and narrow, lamella postvaginalis sclerotised, with claw-like central part and two narrow lobes at both sides. Ductus bursae tubular and membranous, rather slender. Corpus bursae oval, signa comprised of two patches of tiny granules at both sides near base.

Distribution

This species is currenly known from India, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines ( Savela 1990, Osada et al. 1999, Ek-Amnuay 2012, Monastyrskii 2019, Inayoshi 2021); and China is the new distribution area. (Fig. 3 ).

Figures

Figure 1. Female Rhinopalpa polynice (Cramer, [1779]) collected in Yuanyang County. A. upperside; B. underside; scale bar = 10 mm.

Figure 2. Female genitalia of Rhinopalpa polynice (Cramer, [1779]) collected in Yuanyang County. A. lateral view; B. ventral view; Scale bar = 5 mm C. signa enlarged, scale bar = 1 mm.

Figure 3. The habitat of Rhinopalpa polynice (Cramer, [1779]) in China: Shalatuo Village, Yuanyang County, Yunnan Province, SW China.