Stenoloba wolfgangi Behounek &amp; Kononenko 2010, sp. n.
Creators: name: Behounek, G.
name: Kononenko, V. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Stenoloba
Stenoloba wolfgangi

description: <i>Stenoloba wolfgangi</i> Behounek &amp; Kononenko sp. n. (Figs. 5, 6, 35, 58) <b>Type material.</b> Holotype: male, [Indonesia], Sumatra, Prapat, Holzweg 3, [1040–1150 m, 99°05' O, 1°57'N] 14.viii 1983 (E. W. Diehl leg.), genitalia slide GB7212 male, in coll. Behounek to be deposited to ZSM, Munich. Paratypes: 1 male, same locality and collector, 15.ii 1984 (genitalia slide GB5399 male); 2 females, same locality and collector, 15.vii 1983, genitalia slides GB7211 female and GB5400 female; 8 females, same locality and collector, 7.ii 1981, 17.viii 1982, 18.x 1982, 3.ii 1983, 4.ii 1983. 18.iii 1993, 3.ix 1983; 1 male, Sumatra, Prov. Simalungen, Prapat-Talun 22.–26.vii 1982 (E. W. Diehl leg.); 1 male, Sumatra, Sitahoan, 10 km SE Prapat, 1450 m, 1–2.viii (E. W. Diehl leg.) 1981; 1 male, Sumatra, Dolok Merangir, 150–170 m, 28.viii 1982 (E. W. Diehl leg.). All paratypes in coll. Behounek to be deposited to ZSM, Munich; 1 male with label: “ Fort de Kock (Sumatra) 950 m, 1929, leg. E. Jakobson (RMNH, Leiden). <b>Diagnosis.</b> <i>S. wolfgangi</i> is comprised in the same subgroup as <i>S. pendleburyi</i>, and <i>S. ansari</i>. It differs from both species by smaller size and somewhat narrower, lanceolate shape of forewing; from <i>S. pendleburyi</i> it differs by pale ash-grey wing coloration; from <i>S. ansari</i> – by more distinct crosslines and stigmata. Wing coloration and pattern are similar to <i>S. ansari</i>, but the postmedial line clearly outlined by thin white line and basal field more ocher. In male genitalia the new species is close to <i>S. ansari</i>, but differs by shape of juxta, somewhat longer uncus and shorter valva. Female, like <i>S. ansari</i> has wide ovipositor and membranous corpus bursae, but differs well by the absence of a sclerotized extension, which substituted by a sclerotized patch in proximal part of bursa copulatrix. <b>Description.</b> Adult (Figs. 5, 6). Wingspan: male 17–20 mm, female 21–25 mm. Head grey, tegulae and patagia ochreous-green with grey, thorax brownish-grey with greenish scales; thoracic crest not expressed; abdomen brown-grey. Forewing somewhat narrower in comparison with <i>S. ansari</i>, lanceolate, apically more acute than in <i>S. ansari</i>, with oblique terminal margin. Ground colour of forewing ash-grey; basal field ashgrey; subbasal field brownish-green, darker in costal part and with black dash between subbasal and antemedial lines; orbicular distinct, whitish, without black bordering; reniform traceable, B-shaped, with thin bordering outside; medial field ash-grey, shadowed in ventral part of wing with brown-green suffusion; postmedial line black thin, bordered outside with distinct white line, going outward from costal area, then inward and almost straight to ventral margin. Subterminal field ash-grey, with distinct strong, black subapical streak, surrounded with green scales in costal area and intensive brown-greenish suffusion in ventral half; subterminal line thin, whitish; terminal field ash-grey, suffused with brown-greenish and dark grey; terminal line consisting of a row of black streaks; cilia greyish. Hindwing pale, yellowish grey, with weakly traceable discal spot. Cilia grey. <b>Male genitalia</b> (Fig. 35). 8 th segment of abdomen without coremata (Fig. 50). Uncus well developed, moderate, stronger than in <i>S. ansari</i> and longer than in <i>S. pendleburyi</i>; tegumen and vinculum thin, vinculum 1.3 times higher than tegumen; juxta shield-like, not extended apically; transtilla well developed, with large sclerotized plates. Valva somewhat shorter than in <i>S. ansari</i> and less wide basally than in <i>S. pendleburyi</i> and <i>S. ansari</i>, with almost parallel costal and ventral margins, more gradually constricted apically, tipped, bearing short spine on top. Aedeagus relatively short, vesica widely-tubular, bearing large spine-like cornutus on wide base which is shorter than in <i>S. pendleburyi</i> and thinner than in <i>S. ansari.</i> <b>Female genitalia</b> (Fig. 58). Ovipositor broad, general shape of female genitalia similar to <i>S. ansar</i> i, but somewhat more massive. Papillae anales broader than in <i>S. pendleburyi</i>, anterior and posterior apophyses rather massive, strong, but moderate in length; antrum funnel-like, shallow, like in <i>S. ansari</i>; ductus bursae relatively short, narrower than those in <i>S. ansari</i>; corpus bursae ovoid, with strongly sclerotized patch in proximal half of bursae, bearing horseshoe-like signum, but not forming sclerotized extension like in <i>S. ansari</i>. <b>Distribution.</b> (Fig. 74). Indonesia, Sumatra. The species is rather common in Sumatra, from the lowlands up to about 1400 m. Several generations, probably around whole year. <b>Etymology.</b> The species name is dedicated to Wolfgang Behounek, the son of the first author.
description: Published as part of <i>Behounek, G. &amp; Kononenko, V. S., 2010, Fourteen new species of the genus Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892 from South East Asia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Bryophilinae), pp. 1-31 in Zootaxa 2679 (1)</i> on pages 5-6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2679.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5301975