Hampsonola diehli, László, Gyula M., Ronkay, Gábor & Ronkay, László, 2015

László, Gyula M., Ronkay, Gábor & Ronkay, László, 2015, Contribution to the knowledge on the Palaearctic and Oriental taxa of the Meganola s. l. (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Nolidae, Nolinae) generic complex with descriptions of 4 new genera and 11 new species, Zootaxa 4052 (2), pp. 251-296 : 271-273

Hampsonola diehli sp. n.

(Plate 2, Figs 3 , 4 ; gen. fig. 10)

Holotype. Male, [ Indonesia] Sumatra, Kebon Balok, NNW of Medan, 24.XI.1968, leg. Dr. E. Diehl, slide No.: LGN 2057 (coll. SMNK).

Paratypes. Indonesia, Sumatra: 1 male, Dolok Merangir, Najaradja, 280 m, 8.XII.1969, leg. Dr. E. Diehl (coll. SMNK). Malaysia: 1 male, Sabah, Gunung Kinabalu, Sayap, 950 m, 116°34’E, 06°10’N, primary forest edge, in front of ranger house near Sungai Kemantis, 8.III.2001, at light, J.P. Duffels & M.A. Schouten, slide No. MEV 001; 1 male, from the same area, 1000 m, Gua Malayu trail, clearing in primary forest, 13.III.2001, J.P. & M.J. Duffels (coll. RMNH).

Diagnosis. The new species resembles superficially solely the rather remote species Xenonola limbata (Plate 2, Figs 5, 6 ; gen. figs 11, 12) due to the unusual and in Hampsonola unique forewing pattern, the extensive blackish inner part of the forewing, but the two species differ in several details of the forewing shape and markings. The most conspicuous differences, besides a number of fine differences in the wing pattern, are the much broader forewing and more expanded blackish part of the wing reaching the tornus in H. diehli , while the blackish forewing area is shorter in X. limbata , being terminated at the proximal two-thirds of ventral margin

There are no other similar species known in Meganola or in any Eurasian noline genus. The male genitalia of the new species display, surprisingly, a closer relationship with H. indistincta (Hampson, 1894) (gen. figs 8, 9), according to the following distinctive features: H. diehli has conspicuously shorter, apically rounded uncus (that of H. indistincta much longer, apically pointed), somewhat thicker tegumen without process ( H. indistincta has rounded, finger-like process on tegumen), narrower, apically less dilated dorsal and considerably shorter ventral lobe of valva; similarly shaped, but medially less bent harpe; much shorter, broadly rounded vinculum (it has triangular apical process in H. indistincta ); the configuration of the aedeagus is practically identical in both species.

Female unknown.

Hampsonola basirufa (de Joannis, 1928) comb. n.

(gen. figs 15, 16)

Celama basirufa de Joannis, 1928, Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 97: 249. Type-locality: [N Vietnam] Tonkin. Syntypes: two females, in coll. MNHN Paris.

PLATE II. Adults of Hampsonola and Xenonola species.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 3. Male genitalia of Meganola species.

FIGURES 4 – 6. Genitalia of Meganola species.