Spilonota semirufana
Creators: name: Choi, Seokhoon
name: Kim, Jeong-Nam
name: Bayarsaikhan, Ulziijargal
name: Jang, Chang Moon
name: Kim, Hanul
name: Nasu, Yoshitsugu
name: Bae, Yang-Seop
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Tortricidae
Spilonota
Spilonota semirufana

description: Spilonota semirufana (Christoph, 1882)
(Figs 1E, 2E, 3D, 4E, 5D)
Grapholitha semirufana Christoph, 1882, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Muscou, 56(2): 408 (Russia).
Spilonota ochrea Kuznetzov,1966, Trudy. Zool. Inst. Leningr., 37: 189 (Russia).
Description. Adult. Wingspan 16–19 mm; head and thorax reddish brown; forewing ground color dark gray; basal area to apex reddish brown; dorsum 1/2 to apex creamy; boundary between upper and lower color patterns black; costa strigulae creamy white, indicated by pair; strigulae 1 and 2 located in basal fascia indistinct; strigulae not indicated by pair; strigulae 7 extended to inner line; strigulae 8 and 9 extended to outer line; tornal blotch subtriangular pattern, indistinct, from dorsum 2/3 to tornus; apex darkness; speculum ground color dark creamy, inner and outer line of speculum color silver, line of speculum extended to tornus, with 3 to 5 small black inner spots; hindwing yellow brown, turning reddish toward the apex; cilia yellowish; abdomen dark reddish brown.
Male genitalia. Uncus absent; socii inward curved horn apex, waisted; tuba analis membranous; tegumen strong; aedeagus 1/3 of length from tegumen to vinculum, bends lightly, deciduous cornuti; anellus narrow; vinculum small; caulis inverted trapezoid; basal opening about half width of valva, round rectangular shaped; sacculus hairy; valva long, tapering neck; cucullus hump-shaped, skewed outward, setae moderately dense; one pollex on edge.
Female genitalia. Papillae anales with long and short hairs; lamella antevaginalis modestly towering, medially concave, bifid peaks, slightly raised at both ends; colliculum more than half of ductus bursae; corpus bursae spherical; signa pair, small, subtriangular, equal size.
Material examined [Korea]. 2 ♀, Seoul-shi, Changdeokgung, 30. VI. 1999 (Bae et al.), genitalia slide No. INU-13584, 13585; 1 ♀, Inje-gun, Jinbu-ryeng, 7. VII. 1998 (Bae, Ahn & Kim), genitalia slide No. INU-13586; 1 ♀, Chengsong-gun, Mt. Juwang, 16. VII. 1999 (Lee, Kim & Kim), genitalia slide No. INU-13587; 1 ♀, Hongcheongun, Undu-ryeong, 20. VII. 2000 (Bae, Lee & Lee), genitalia slide No. INU-13594; 3 ♀, Seoul-shi, Changdeokgung, 30. VI. 1999 (Bae et al.), genitalia slide No. INU-13595, 13596, 13597; 1 ♀, Wonju-shi, Mt. Chiak, 16. VII. 1998 (Bae, Ahn & Kim), genitalia slide No. INU-13604; 1 ♂, Namweon-shi, Mt. Jangah, 21. VII. 1998 (Bae, Paek & Lee), genitalia slide No. INU-13605; 1 ♀, Sangju-gun, Mt. Sokri, 17. VII. 1998 (Paek, Ahn & Kim), genitalia slide No. INU-13606.
Host plant. Quercus dentata [Fagaceae] (Nasu 2021).
Distribution. Korea (GG, GW, GB, JN, N) (Byun et al. 1998; Byun 2011), China (Zhang & Li 2005), Japan (Nasu 2021), Russian Far East (Kuznetzov 2001).
Remarks. The species was first recorded in Korea by Byun & Park (1993).
description: Published as part of Choi, Seokhoon, Kim, Jeong-Nam, Bayarsaikhan, Ulziijargal, Jang, Chang Moon, Kim, Hanul, Nasu, Yoshitsugu & Bae, Yang-Seop, 2024, Taxonomic study of the genus Spilonota Stephens (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae: Eucosmini) with descriptions of two new species in Korea, pp. 357-370 in Zootaxa 5418 (4) on pages 363-365, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5418.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/10730648