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Issue: Vol. 4083 No. 2: 19 Feb. 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-02-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4083.2.7
Page range: 290–292
Abstract views: 58
PDF downloaded: 1

Minooa Yamanaka, 1996, a genus newly recorded to China with description of a new species (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Pyralinae)

College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Lepidoptera Pyralidae Pyralinae

Abstract

The genus Minooa Yamanaka, 1996 was monobasic with Minooa yamamotoi Yamanaka, 1996 as the type species. Previously, the genus was only recorded from Japan (Yamanaka 1996; Yamanaka & Yoshiyasu 2013). The diagnostic characters of this genus are as follows: antenna of male ciliated ventrally, simple in female; forewing M1 stalked with R3+4+5 for short distance, M2 and M3 stalked for 1/4 length; hindwing with Rs and M1 stalked, M2 and M3 stalked for 1/4 length; male genitalia with a long process arising from base of sacculus; aedeagus with several thorn-shaped cornuti; female genitalia with ductus bursae broadened and wrinkled posteriorly; signum formed by minute sclerites.

 

References

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    Yamanaka, H. & Yoshiyasu, Y. (2013) Pyralinae. In: Nasu, Y., Hirowatari, T. & Kishida, Y. (Eds.), The Standard of Moths in Japan. IV. Gakken Education Publishing, Tokyo, pp. 318–329.