Prorophora (Reisserempista) mongolica Roesler, 1970

Liu, Jiayu & Li, Houhun, 2012, Taxonomic study of the genus Prorophora Ragonot, 1887 (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Phycitinae) in China, with description of a new species, ZooKeys 180, pp. 41-51 : 47-48

Prorophora (Reisserempista) mongolica Roesler, 1970 Figs 4 710

Prorophora (Reisserempista) mongolica Roesler, 1970: 55; Roesler, 1973: 76; Roesler, 1987: 394. [Holotype: ♂, Chovd aimak, Mongolia, deposited in Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary].

Material examined.

China, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region: 1 ♂, Chengguanzhen, Dengkou County (40.3°N, 107.0°E), 1000 m, 19.VIII.2002, coll. Zhiqiang Li and Dandan Zhang; 31 ♂♂, 15 ♀♀, Buyant (41.8°N, 107.0°E), Urad Houqi, 1075 m, 17.VIII.2006, coll. Zhiwei Zhang; 2 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, Mt. Helan (38.8°N, 105.7°E), Alxa Zuoqi, 1836 m, 03.VIII.2010, coll. Hongxia Liu and Zhiwei Zhang; Gansu Province: 1 ♀, Minqin County (38.6°N, 103.0°E), 1343 m, 26.VII.2006, coll. Xinpu Wang and Xiangfeng Shi. (genitalia slide nos. LJY09048 ♂; LJY10022 ♂; LJY10027 ♂; LJY11032 ♂; LJY09036 ♀; LJY10018 ♀; LJY11030 ♀).

Diagnosis.

Adult (Fig. 4) with wingspan 15.0−18.0 mm.This species is characterized by the forewing with yellowish brown basal field edged with black on outer margin posteriorly, pale yellowish brown along veins between antemedian and postmedian lines; the costa exceeding end of valva and produced to an apical spine curved backward, the phallus with two cornuti in the male genitalia (Fig. 7); the corpus bursae densely covered with tiny spines, the subrounded signum located at posterior 1/4 of the corpus bursae, and the ductus seminalis from posterior margin of the corpus bursae near the ductus bursae in the female genitalia (Fig. 10).

Distribution.

China (Inner Mongolia, Gansu); Mongolia.