Lista Walker 1859
Creators: name: Rong, Hua
name: Wang, Yiping
name: Qi, Mujie
name: Li, Houhun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pyralidae
Lista

description: Lista Walker, 1859: 877.
Type species: Lista genisusalis Walker, 1859.
Paracme Lederer, 1863: 338. Type species: Paracme insulsalis Lederer, 1863, by monotypy.
Craneophora Christoph, 1881: 1. Type species: Craneophora ficki Christoph, 1881, by monotypy.
Belonepholis Butler, 1889: 89. Type species: Belonepholis striata Butler, 1889, by monotypy.
Generic characters. Adult (Figs 1, 3), body medium to large size. Head with labial palpus upturned, exceeding vertex apically, male with second segment hollowed to receive long brush-like maxillary palpus, female labial palpus thinner than male. Maxillary palpus long, brush-like in male, short and compressed in female. Male antenna serrulate on ventral surface; scape extension apically reaching metathorax. Forewing with or without antemedian line; postmedian line and subterminal line distinct; discal spot absent; discocellular spot represented by a tuft of scales; hindwing concolorous with forewing (except L. yunnanensis sp. nov. and L. variegata); both wings with several scale tufts. Wing venation (Fig. 2): Forewing with R 1 and R 2 stalked, R 3, R 4 and R 5 stalked, M 1 from upper angle of cell, M 2 and M 3 from lower angle of cell; hindwing with Sc+R 1 and Rs adjacent, Rs and M 1 stalked.
Male genitalia (Fig. 4). Uncus broad, lateral margin with process in some species. Gnathos joined distally, forming a distal process, often trifurcate apically; lateral arm sometimes with a process. Valva medially with a sclerotized plate joined with apex of saculus or process on saculus; costa usually expanded on distal 1/3; sacculus with two dorsal processes (with one in L. sichuanensis and L. serrata sp. nov.). Saccus present or absent. Phallus slightly curved basally, with or without cornutus.
Female genitalia (Fig. 5). Eighth segment rectangular, sternite narrowed medially. Apophyses anteriores slightly longer than apophyses posteriores. Lamella antevaginalis developed in most species. Antrum developed. Ductus bursae membranous. Corpus bursae ovate, with two subrounded signa.
Diagnosis. Lista is characterized by the dark purple or reddish-brown distal areas, the orange or yellow fascias and the tufts of scales on both fore- and hindwings; in the male genitalia by the rectangular uncus setose dorsally, sacculus with at least one dorsal process, and valva with a sclerotized plate medially. It is similar to Coenodomus Walsingham, 1888 in the male genitalia, but can be distinguished from the latter by the rectangular uncus usually not concave on posterior margin, the valva with a sclerotized plate medially, and the oval juxta with short lobes posteriorly. In Coenodomus, the uncus is usually inverted trapezoid-shaped and concave posteriorly, the valva lacks a sclerotized plate and the juxta bears long and curved spine-shaped lobes posteriorly.
Key to Lista species in China based on male genitalia
1 Uncus with process on lateral margin..................................................................... 2
- Uncus without process on lateral margin.................................................................. 9
2 Gnathos lateral arm with process........................................................................ 3
- Gnathos lateral arm without process...................................................................... 4
3 Juxta lateral lobe subtriangular, distal half serrulate on outer margin (Fig. 26).............................. L. gilvasa
- Juxta lateral lobe long spine-shaped, distal half not serrulate on outer margin (Fig. 28)............... L. longifundamena
4 Gnathos serrate apically............................................................................... 5
- Gnathos trifurcate apically............................................................................. 6
5 Uncus with lateral process forked (Fig. 25)..................................................... L. furciillatusa
- Uncus with lateral process spine-shaped (Fig. 4)................................................ L. haraldusalis
6 Phallus with denticles at distal 1/4....................................................................... 7
- Phallus without denticle at distal 1/4...................................................................... 8
7 Length of uncus lateral process about 3/4 width of posterior margin of uncus (Fig. 36)..................... L. variegata
- Length of uncus lateral process about equal to width of posterior margin of uncus (Fig. 37)........ L. yunnanensis sp. nov.
8 Sacculus with one dorsal process (Fig. 24)................................................. L. furcellata sp. nov.
- Sacculus with two dorsal processes (Fig. 27)...................................................... L. insulsalis
9 Valva tuberculate ventroapically........................................................................ 10
- Valva not tuberculate ventroapically..................................................................... 12 10 Gnathos lateral arm with a hooked process at basal 1/3 (Fig. 35).................................. L. zhengi sp. nov.
- Gnathos lateral arm without hooked process at basal 1/3..................................................... 11
11 Gnathos with distal process trifurcate (Fig. 34).......................................... L. strumiformis sp. nov.
- Gnathos with distal process hooked.......................................................... L. plinthochroa
12 Sacculus with one dorsal process....................................................................... 13
- Sacculus with two dorsal processes...................................................................... 14
13 Sacculus with dorsal process spine-shaped (Fig. 33)............................................. L. sichuanensis
- Sacculus with dorsal process sub-triangular (Fig. 32)........................................... L. serrata sp. nov.
14 Gnathos lateral arm with process....................................................................... 15
- Gnathos lateral arm without process..................................................................... 16
15 Phallus with one cornutus (Fig. 29)........................................................... L. menghaiensis
- Phallus with two cornuti (Fig. 22).............................................................. L. angustusa
16 Gnathos hooked apically (Fig. 31)............................................................. L. monticola
- Gnathos trifurcate apically............................................................................ 17
17 Sacculus with inner dorsal process about equal to length of outer dorsal process (Fig. 30)................. L. menglaensis
- Sacculus with inner dorsal process rather short (Fig. 23)................................................. L. ficki
description: Published as part of Rong, Hua, Wang, Yiping, Qi, Mujie & Li, Houhun, 2021, Taxonomic review of the genus Lista Walker, 1859 from China (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Epipaschiinae), with descriptions of five new species, pp. 237-262 in Zootaxa 5081 (2) on pages 238-240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5081.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5771739