Opacoptera flavicana Wu & Liu, 1992

Yu, Shuai & Wang, Shuxia, 2023, Opacoptera Gozmany (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae) from China, with descriptions of four new species, ZooKeys 1158, pp. 133-146 : 133

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1158.100396

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:649720BF-A67C-4633-B29C-9594C807B3E3

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F4A4661A-CD66-5D6B-AF6F-ABEF49C203C8

treatment provided by

ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Opacoptera flavicana Wu & Liu, 1992
status

 

Opacoptera flavicana Wu & Liu, 1992 View in CoL

Figs 6 View Figures 3–10 , 20 View Figures 18–22

Opacoptera flavicana Wu & Liu, 1992 in Peng and Liu 1992: 618. TL: China (Hunan). TD: IZCAS.

Material examined.

China: 1♀, Guizhou, Mt. Fanjing , 1700 m, 1.vi.2002, XP Wang leg., slide No. LSR11247 View Materials .

Diagnosis.

This species can be distinguished from its congeners by the pale yellowish brown forewing, the juxta without posterior lobes in the male genitalia ( Wu and Liu 1992: 681, fig. 2148), and the corpus bursae with a single signum in the female genitalia (Fig. 20 View Figures 18–22 ).

Description.

Wingspan 16.0 mm (Fig. 6 View Figures 3–10 ).

Distribution.

China (Guizhou, Hunan).

Remarks.

Wu and Liu (1992) described the species from Hunan, China on a male and four females, and placed it in the genus Opacoptera based mainly on the wing venation. But the species seems distinctive in the genus Opacoptera both in appearance and genitalia as stated in the diagnosis. It probably does not belong to the present genus and the taxonomic status needs further study.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Lecithoceridae

Genus

Opacoptera

Loc

Opacoptera flavicana Wu & Liu, 1992

Yu, Shuai & Wang, Shuxia 2023
2023
Loc

Opacoptera flavicana

Wu & Liu 1992
1992