Pityocona monoprocessa Li, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Chen, Mengting
name: Li, Houhun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Pityocona
Pityocona monoprocessa

description: Pityocona monoprocessa Li, sp. nov.
Figs 2 d, 3d
Type material. CHINA: Holotype ♂, Tianchi, Jianfengling (18.63°N, 108.87°E), Hainan, 787 m, 9.І.2016, coll. Kaijian Teng, Xia Bai and Mengting Chen, slide No. CMT15282.
Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from its congeners by the asymmetrical lateral lobes of the uncus and the asymmetrical valva, and the heavily sclerotized gnathos with a small fin-shaped process at middle on the ventral surface.
Description. Adult (Fig. 2 d) with wingspan 11.0 mm. Head creamy white, with sparse pale yellow scales above compound eyes. Antenna with scape yellowish white; flagellum yellowish white and black alternately. Labial palpus creamy white; second segment mottled pale brown on outer surface, with compact pale brown scale tuft on ventral surface; third segment mottled greyish brown scales from basal 1/4 to 2/5, blackish brown in distal 1/4 except creamy white at apex. Thorax and tegula pale yellow. Forewing pale brown; four evenly spaced subovate blackish spots placed near base of Sc vein, at basal 1/3 of cell on upper margin, at both middle and end of cell respectively, joined by arched longitudinal yellowish white band; fold with dense yellowish white scales, with black spot at basal 1/3 and distal 1/3 respectively; fringe greyish white. Hindwing and fringe pale grey brown, two to three times of wing width. Legs creamy white, mixed with greyish brown on ventral surface of coxae and femora; foreleg with tibia and tarsus blackish brown on outer surface, tibia with creamy white strips basally and medially, tarsus with creamy white ring at apex of each tarsomere; midleg mixed with greyish brown scales on outer surface, tarsus with yellowish white ring at apex of each tarsomere; hindleg with long creamy white hairs on tibia, blackish brown at base of each tarsomere on outer surface.
Male genitalia (Fig. 3 d): Uncus widely bifurcate, broad U-shaped; lateral lobes asymmetrical: left lobe wide basally, narrowed distally, arched outwards, with clustered setae near base, rounded at apex; right lobe with basal 2/5 uniform in width, narrowed from 2/5 to 4/5, distal 1/5 spatulate. Gnathos with basal 1/3 expanded horizontally in sub-ovate shape, distal 2/3 narrower and of equal width, apex rounded; with a small fin-shaped process at middle on ventral surface; culcitula large, ovate. Tegumen divided from near base; lateral branch broad, slightly expanded distally, blunt anteriorly. Valva apically reaching top of uncus, basal 1/3 wide, narrowed from 1/3 to 3/4, with long dense setae throughout distal 1/4; asymmetrical: left valva with clustered setae at basal 3/5, expanded ovately before pointed apex, with a square process at basal 3/5 on ventral margin; right valva wide at base, narrowed to 3/4, with rowed dense long setae at basal 3/5 on ventral margin, distal 1/4 elongate ovate, slightly expanded to before rounded apex. Aedeagus with basal 1/3 expanded, narrowed from basal 1/3 to 3/4, distal 1/4 sharply narrowed to pointed apex.
Female unknown.
Distribution. China (Hainan).
Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Greek mono - and processus, referring to the valva with a square process only at left.
description: Published as part of Chen, Mengting & Li, Houhun, 2017, Review of the genus Pityocona Meyrick, 1918 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in China, with descriptions of five new species, pp. 347-357 in Zootaxa 4263 (2) on pages 354-355, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4263.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/573167