Argyresthia (Argyresthia) longalbella Liu, Wang & Li, 2017, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Liu, Tengteng
name: Wang, Shuxia
name: Li, Houhun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Yponomeutidae
Argyresthia
Argyresthia longalbella

description: 48. Argyresthia (Argyresthia) longalbella, sp. nov. (Figs. 60, 82, 126, 182, 238, 284)
Description. Adult (Figs. 60, 82) wingspan 10.5̄ 11 mm. Head white, face tinged with yellow. Labial palpus white, tinged with yellow laterally. Antenna with scape white, pecten yellowish fuscous; flagellum grayish white, ringed with black. Foreleg with femur, tibia, and tarsus blackish fuscous on inner surface, yellowish white on outer surface; midleg mostly yellowish white, tibia dorsally dotted with fuscous at base and at middle, blackish fuscous on each tarsomere distally; hindleg mostly white, tibia with distal half blackish gray on outer surface, black on each tarsomere distally. Thorax white; tegula golden orange. Forewing ratio 4.5; ground color rust fuscous, with dense transverse dark fuscous striae becoming denser distally; costa with basal 3/5 pale yellow with blackish-fuscous striae alternating with yellowish white, yellowish-white spot at distal 1/5; wide golden orange streak below basal half of fold; dorsal band white, extending to end of fold, scattered with a few transverse dark fuscous striae, with some scattered pale yellowish-white scales near tornus; cilia dark fuscous to blackish fuscous basally and distally, grayish white medially, yellowish white adjacent to costal spot, gray near tornus. Hindwing and cilia uniformly gray. Abdomen slivery gray dorsally, grayish yellow ventrally.
Male genitalia (Figs. 126, 182, 238): Tuba analis slightly shorter than width of valva. Socius covered with 19̄20 scale-like setae, bearing a single long seta posteriorly (Fig. 238). Gnathos not inflated distally, without long thick setae apically. Valva elliptical, widest at basal 3/7; a row of long thick setae from disc near ventral margin to distal area, with setae near apex of ventral margin shorter. Saccus with distal 3/5 narrowed distally. Phallus straight, 4.0 times as long as width of valva (Fig. 182). Second sternite with about 14 micro-setae in each row; eighth sternite Y-shaped. Coremata present.
Female genitalia (Fig. 284): Ovipositor 2.8 times as long as eighth segment. Anterior apophysis 4/5 length of posterior apophysis, bifurcate at middle, branches fused, forming ventral margin of ostium bursae. Lamella postvaginalis nearly rectangular. Antrum funnel-shaped, 2/5 length of eighth segment. Ductus bursae spinulate near and before opening of ductus seminalis; ductus seminalis originating from anterior 2/5 of ductus bursae. Corpus bursae ovate, narrower on anterior half; densely denticulated, becoming sparser anteriorly; signum with basal plate elongate oval, horns uniformly slender, curved inward, C-shaped.
Type material. CHINA: Holotype, Ƌ, Dadian Forest Station (36.55°N, 111.21°E), Mt. Wulu, Linfen City, Shanxi Province, 1620 m, 19.vii.2013, leg. Tengteng Liu and Peixin Cong. Paratypes: Shanxi Province: 1Ƌ, other same data as holotype; 53♂, 18♀, Mt. Mian, Jiexiu County (36.87°N, 111.99°E), 1370 m, 25, 27.vii.2013, leg. Tengteng Liu and Peixin Cong, slide nos. LTT12274 ♂, LTT12275♀, LTT12274W; 2♂, Mt. Mian (36.87°N, 111.99°E), Jiexiu County, 1370 m, 21, 27.vii.2014, leg. Tengteng Liu, Meiqing Yang and Sihan Lu; 1♂, Shangchuan Village (35.46°N, 112.03°E), Mt. Li, Qinshui County, Jincheng City, 29.vii.2013, leg. Shulian Hao and Mingjing Li; 4♀, Mt. Li (35.59°N, 111.97°E), Jincheng City, 1520 m, 16, 19.viii.2009, leg. Xu Zhang and Haiyan Bai; 2♀, Aigou gold mine (35.01°N, 111.48°E), Taikuanhe Nature Reverses, Yuncheng City, 1520 m, leg. Shulian Hao and Mingjing Li; 1♀, Zhangma Village (35.60°N, 111.95°E [labeled 117°57′E in error]), Mt. Li Nature Reverses, Qinshui County, Jincheng City, 1095 m, 22.vii.2013, leg. Shulian Hao and Mingjing Li. Henan Province: 1Ƌ, 2♀, Baligou (35°59′N, 113°54′E), Hui County, 780 m, 13, 14.vii.2002, leg. Xinpu Wang, slide nos. FXM07017Ƌ, FXM07018♀, LTT12125♀. Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region: 1♀, Heshangpu Forest Farm (35.68°N, 106.25°E), Mt. Liupan, 2100 m, 9.vii.2008, leg. Shulian Hao and Zhiwei Zhang, slide no. LTT12276; 2♀, Dongshanpo Forest Farm (35.39°N, 106.35°E), Mt. Liupan, 2050 m, 7.vii.2008, leg. Shulian Hao and Zhiwei Zhang, slide no. LTT12081; 1♂, Hougou Forest Station (35.67°N, 106.32°E), Woyangchuan Forest Farm, Mt. Liupan, 1700 m, 3.vii.2008, leg. Shulian Hao and Zhiwei Zhang, slide no. LTT12094 ♂; 1♀, Qiuqianjia Forest Farm (35.56°N, 106.44°E), Mt. Liupan, 1700 m, 1.vii.2008, leg. Shulian Hao and Zhiwei Zhang; 1♀, Qiuqianjia (35.56°N, 106.44°E), Jingyuan County, 2100 m, 9.viii.2000, leg. Houhun Li and Shuxia Wang. Gansu Province: 1♀, Dangchuan Forest Farm (34.35°N, 106.15°E), Tianshui City, 1340 m, 28.vii.2006, leg. Xinpu Wang and Xiangfeng Shi, slide no. JQ07338. Sichuan Province: 1♀, Zharu (33.25°N, 103.97°E), Jiuzhaigou, 2250 m, 19.viii.2002, leg. Shulian Hao, slide no. LTT12095; Hebei Province: 11Ƌ, 7♀, Shuangyuanfeng (40.61°N, 117.45°E), Mt. Wuling, Xinglong County, 800 m, 29.vii.2011, Houhun Li and Yanpeng Cai, slide no. LTT12185Ƌ. Beijing: 1♀, Xiaolongmen Forest Farm (39.97°N, 115.44°E), 14.viii.2009, leg. Aihuan Zhang and Aihua Sun; 1♀, Mt. Baihua (39.85°N, 115.59°E), 1186 m, 23.vi.2009, leg. Jinmei Lv.
Other material: 1♀, Xiaowutai (39.85°N, 114.60°E), Wei County, Beijing, 1200 m, 23.viii.2005, leg. Yunli Xiao; 1♂, 1♀ (both without abdomen), Shuangyuanfeng (40.61°N, 117.45°E), Mt. Wuling, Xinglong County, Hebei Province, 800 m, 29.vii.2011, leg. Houhun Li and Yanpeng Cai.
Distribution. China (Beijing, Hebei, Henan, Gansu, Ningxia, Shanxi, Sichuan).
Diagnosis. This species is similar to A. (A.) albicomella Moriuti, 1969 [holotype examined], but it differs from the latter in the rust-fuscous forewing with the dorsal band extending to the end of the fold, and in the funnelshaped antrum and the ovate corpus bursae apparently narrower on distal half in the female genitalia. In A. (A.) albicomella the dorsal band on the ferruginous-brown forewing extends to the basal 1/3 of the dorsum, and the antrum is uniform in width and the corpus bursae elliptical in the female genitalia.
Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin longus, meaning long, and albus meaning white, referring to the long white dorsal band.
description: Published as part of Liu, Tengteng, Wang, Shuxia & Li, Houhun, 2017, Review of the genus Argyresthia Hübner, [1825] (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea: Argyresthiidae) from China, with descriptions of forty-three new species, pp. 1-135 in Zootaxa 4292 (1) on pages 59-60, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.827746