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Issue: Vol. 4324 No. 3: 28 Sept. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-09-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4324.3.13
Page range: 597–600
Abstract views: 72
PDF downloaded: 3

New taxa of the Meganola argentescens (Hampson, 1895) species group from China (Lepidoptera, Nolidae, Nolinae)

School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, 621010, China.
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China.
School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150040, China.
Lepidoptera Nolidae Nolinae

Abstract

Meganola argentescens (Hampson, 1895) species group is consisted of four species, Meganola argentescens (Hampson, 1895), Meganola jinghongensis (Shao, Li & Han, 2009), two of which are described below (Meganola weixiensis sp. nov. and Meganola xui sp. nov.). The diagnostic external features of the species group are the silvery forewing ground color, the black or dark brown marking at medial line area before cell, the black or dark brown and striped marking at wing base along with costal margin, the shrinked valva medially, the long and cylindrical aedeagus with many spinulae at apex and vesica without cornuti in male genitalia. It is worth nothing that the so-called group is supposed by the external appearance of adult and configuration of male genitalia.

 

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