Scoparia caradjai Leraut, 1986

Li, Weichun, Li, Houhun & Nuss, Matthias, 2010, Taxonomic revision of Scoparia Haworth, 1811 (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Scopariinae) from China, Zootaxa 2609, pp. 1-33 : 15-16

10. Scoparia caradjai Leraut, 1986

( Figs. 7 , 15, 25 )

Scoparia caradjai Leraut, 1986: 126 , fig. 3. Type locality: West Tianmushan, Zhejiang Province, China.

Material examined. China: Holotype: Ƥ, " Holotype ", "West Tien-Mu-shan | ( China). 2.v.1932 ", " basistriga - | lis Knaggs", " Holotype | Scoparia | caradjai | Ƥ Leraut", "P. Leraut det. | prép. n° 1393 | Scoparia Ƥ | caradjai Leraut ", MINGA.

Additional material: 1 Ƥ, Longtan (32.10°N, 119.02°E), Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 4.v.1933, leg. H. Höne (genitalia slide no. LWC08103); 1 3, West Tianmushan (30.26°N, 119.34°E), Zhejiang Province, 10.v.1932, leg. H. Höne; 2 33, Kuling, Lushan (29.30°N, 115.58°E), Jiangxi Province, 2.v.1934, leg. H. Höne (genitalia slide no. LWC08101), ZFMK.

Diagnosis. Scoparia caradjai is similar to S. nipponalis , but can be distinguished by the phallus bearing a bundle of fishhook-shaped cornuti attached with other eight spinelike cornuti in the male genitalia, and the ductus bursae conspicuously swollen before the colliculum in the female genitalia. In S. nipponalis , the phallus has more than six small spinelike cornuti arranged in a row, and the ductus bursae is nearly the same diameter throughout.

Redescription. Adult ( Fig. 7 ): Forewing length 8.0– 10.5 mm. Frons pale brown. Vertex pale brown mixed with white. Labial palpus pale brown; first segment white ventrally at base. Maxillary palpus pale brown, tip mixed with white. Antenna with scapus pale brown dorsally, white ventrally; flagellomeres with dorsal surface pale brown and white alternately, ventral surface pale brown. Patagium pale brown. Thorax white mixed with pale brown. Tegula pale brown to blackish brown, posterior margin with white to pale brown long scales. Forewing broad, brown with some black suffusion; basally with blackish brown stripe; antemedian line inconspicuous white, nearly straight, inclined outwards; antemedian stigmata blackish brown, stripelike, connected with antemedian line; distal discoidal stigma blackish brown, X-shaped, filled ochreous, separated from blackish brown spot at costa; postmedian line white, meeting costa and dorsum nearly perpendicularly, with conspicuous dentation towards distal discoidal stigma; subterminal line white, running close and nearly parallel to termen, outcurved near tornus; fringe white to pale brown, with pale brown to blackish brown basal line. Hindwing greyish white to pale brown; fringe white, with pale brown medial line. Legs white, covered with sparse pale brown scales on outer side; tarsi blackish brown and white alternately on outer side. Abdomen pale brown.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 15). Uncus ovate, notched posteriorly. Gnathos slender, slightly longer than uncus, blunt apically. Valva broad and short; costa nearly straight; apex rounded. Sacculus broad and short, convex ventrobasally, concave ventrodistally; free distal process at half of valva. Saccus strongly developed. Juxta ovate. Phallus straight, nearly as long as valva; opening for ductus ejaculatorius at about basal third of phallus; cornuti tightly compacted into fishhook-shaped bundle, basal and medial parts attached with six and tip with two tiny spines.

Female genitalia ( Fig. 25 ). Papilla anale ovate, slightly shorter than apophysis posterior. Tergite eight about one fourth length of apophysis anterior. Antrum short tubular, not conspicuously divided from colliculum. Ductus bursae swollen conspicuously before colliculum, then constricted for short distance and thickened towards corpus bursae. Corpus bursae globular, half longitudinal area covered with dense tiny spines, other half covered with dense granules; signum absent; appendix bursae small ovate.

Distribution. China (Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang).

Remarks. The type specimen of Scoparia caradjai Leraut, 1986 was misidentified by Caradja & Meyrick (1935) as S. basistrigalis Knaggs, 1866 . Thus, S. basistrigalis was erroneously recorded from China only.

Leraut (1986) described S. caradjai based on a female specimen in French, but image of the adult was not provided. We redescribe and provide the image of this species in detail, and describe the male of S. caradjai for the first time.

Figures

FIGURES 5 – 8. Adults of Scoparia spp.: 5, S. metaleucalis Hampson, 1907, female; 6, S. spinosa sp. n., paratype, female; 7. S. caradjai Leraut, 1986, male; 8, S. jiuzhaiensis sp. n., paratype, female.

FIGURES 23 – 25. Female genitalia of Scoparia spp.: 23, S. metaleucalis Hampson, 1907, genitalia slide no. LWC 08240; 24, S. spinosa sp. n., paratype, genitalia slide no. LWC 08043; 25, S. caradjai Leraut, 1986, genitalia slide no. LWC 08103.