Calybites securinella
Creators: name: Jiang, Yurong
name: Zhao, Yang
name: Wang, Encui
name: Zhang, Tongyou
name: Liu, Tengteng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gracillariidae
Calybites
Calybites securinella

description: <i>Calybites securinella</i> (Ermolaev, 1986) (Figs 1B, 3B) <i>Caloptilia securinella</i> Ermolaev, 1986: 747. TL: Gornotaezhnoe, South Primorye, Russia. TD: ZIN. <i>Calybites securinella</i> (Ermolaev): Noreika, 1994: 106; Noreika, 1997: 385; de Prins &amp; de Prins, 2005: 136; Kawahara <i>et al</i>., 2010: 131. Diagnosis. This species resembles <i>C. phasianipennella</i>, the details see the diagnosis of the latter. Description. Adult. Wingspan 10.5 mm. Head white and glossy. Face light brown. Maxillary palpus light brown with white tip. Second segment of labial palpus with downward tufted hair, inner side white, outer side brown; middle part of third segment slightly brown. Antennae with scape yellowish white; flagellum light brown, glossy, with black rings. Forewing with ground color pale brown, an outward curved white streak at costal 1/4, about half-wing width in length, with a gray band extending to dorsum; a transverse white fascia in middle of wing, with inner edge concaved and outer edge straight; a triangular white spot about half-wing width near apex, where cilia white on costa, below with a gray band extending to tornus; a gray band between transverse white fascia and triangular spot near apex across forewing and bend outward before dorsum; a large triangular white spot near base of dorsum, about half width of wing, above with a gray band extending to near base of costa; all white patterns edged black scales; a gray spot near apex; cilia gray except on costal spot. Hindwing and cilia gray. Male genitalia. Tuba analis with a long sclerotized line at middle with expanded base reaching tegumen. Tegumen with several long setae on sides. Valva strongly dilated apically, shallowly concave on terminal margin, costal corner rounded, a small process before end of sacculus. Vinculum + saccus broad triangular. Phallus thin and straight, narrowed distally, as long as valva, without cornutus. Material examined. Shandong: 1&amp;male;, Mt. Laoshan, Qingdao, 36.211°N, 120.593°E, 390 m, 2015.VII.10, leg. Tengteng Liu, genitalia slide no. LIU0036, registration no. SDNU. Ent 150632. Host plant. In Far East of Russia, <i>Flueggea suffruticosa</i> (Euphorbiaceae) was reported as host plant (Ermolaev, 1986). In China, no further information was added. Distribution. China (Shandong), Korea (Kawahara <i>et al</i>., 2010), Russian (Far East) (Ermolaev, 1986). Remarks. This species is recorded in China for the first time.
description: Published as part of <i>Jiang, Yurong, Zhao, Yang, Wang, Encui, Zhang, Tongyou &amp; Liu, Tengteng, 2021, Taxonomic review on Acrocercopinae, Gracillariinae and Ornixolinae from Shandong, China, with new data on distribution and host associations (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), pp. 240-257 in Zoological Systematics 46 (3)</i> on page 243, DOI: 10.11865/zs.2021306, http://zenodo.org/record/7176092
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