Locheutis tianmushana Wang 2002
Creators: name: Wang, Shuxia
name: Tao, Zhulin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Oecophoridae
Locheutis
Locheutis tianmushana

description: Locheutis tianmushana Wang, 2002
(Figs 1a–c)
Locheutis tianmushana Wang, 2002: 61. TL: China (Zhejiang). TD: NKU.
Type material. CHINA, Zhejiang: Holotype ♂, Mt. Tianmushan (30.4°N, 119.5°E), 1140 m, 17–VIII–1999, leg. HH Li, slide No. W00059. Paratype: 1♂, 500 m, 16–VIII–1999, other same data as holotype.
Other material examined. CHINA, Zhejiang: 1♀ Sanmuping, Mt. Tianmu, 800 m, 19.VIII.1999, leg. HH Li, slide No. TZL20470; 1♂, Qingliangfeng, Linan, 900 m, 12.VIII.2005, leg. YL Xiao; 2♂, Zhonglieci, Mt. Tianmu, 400 m, 25–27.VII.2011, leg. LL Yang & N Chen; 6♂ 2♀, Sanmuping, Mt. Tianmu, 1000 m, 27–29.VII.2011, leg. LL Yang & N Chen, slide Nos. LSR11041 ♂, TZL19687 ♂; 4♂, Laoan, Mt. Tianmu, 555 m, 3–5.VII.2014, leg. LL Yang & N Chen; 3♂, Qianjiangyuan, Mt. tianmu, 866 m, 10.VII–14.VIII.2014, leg. AH Yin et al., slide No. YS 18132; 1♂, Zhongbeikeng, Mt. Tianmu, 804 m, 11.VII.2014, leg. AH Yin et al.; 5♂ 2♀, Xiguan, Mt. Tianmu, 566 m, 16–19.VII.2014, leg. AH Yin et al., slide Nos. YS 18131 ♂, YS18133 ♀; 1♂, Yulingguan, Qingliangfeng, 220 m, 23.VII.2014, leg. AH Yin et al., slide No. TZL19688; 1♂, Jiufu Village, Mt. Longtang, 520 m, 25.VII.2014, leg. AH Yin et al.; 3♂ 1♀, Sanmuping, Mt. Tianmu, 789 m, 14.VII–11.VIII.2014, leg. AH Yin et al., slide No. TZL19806 ♀; 1♂, Pinggang, Mt. Longxu, 754 m, 24.VIII.2014, leg. AH Yin et al., slide No. TZL19671; 2♂, Sanmuping, Mt. Tianmu, 789 m, 16–17.VII.2015, leg. AH Yin et al.; 2♂, Ganzuling, Simingshan Town, Yuyao City, 853 m, 24.VII.2015, leg. AH Yin et al., slide No. TZL19634; 2♂ 1♀, Laoan, Mt. Tianmu, 555 m, 13–15.VII.2015, leg. AH Yin et al.; 1♂ 1♀, Mt. Tianmu, 335 m, 19.VII.2015, leg. AH Yin et al.; 5♂, Huangtan Forest Farm, Renchuan Town, Jinhua City, 909 m, leg. AH Yin et al., slide No. TZL19626; 1♂, Guojiasenlin Park, Mt. Siming, Ningbo, 822 m, 2.VIII.2016, leg. QY Wang; 6♂, Datou Village, Hengzhou City, 707 m, 5–6.VIII.2018, leg. S Yu, slide No. TZL19627; 1♀, Wangdongyang, Jingning County, 1174 m, 16.VIII.2018, leg. S Yu, slide No. TZL19672; Fujian: 1♂, Taohuayu, Mt. Wuyi, 620 m, 7.VIII.2020, leg. MJ Qi & XY Jin, slide No. TZL19242; 1♀, Guadun, Mt. Wuyi, 1060 m, 8.VIII.2020., leg. MJ Qi & XY Jin, slide No. TZL19625; Hunan: 1♂, Zhangjiajie, 650 m, 7.VIII.2001, leg. HH L & XP Wang, slide No. W04004; 1♂ 2♀, Xiangsanjiang, Mt. Sunhuang, Xinning County, 921 m, 3– 7.VIII.2020, leg. H Sun et al., slide Nos. TZL19604 ♂, TZL19623 ♀; Guangxi: 1♀, Huaping, 950 m, 6.VIII.2006, leg. WC Li; 1♀, Jiuniutang, Mt. Mao′er, Guilin, 1016 m, 24.VII.2015, leg. MJ Qi & SN Zhao, slide No. TZL19696; 1♀, Yinshan Park, Mt. Dayao, Jinxiu County, 1364 m, 19.VII.2015, leg. MJ Qi & SN Zhao, slide No. TZL19690; 1♀, Botanical Garden, Mt. Mao′er, 1115 m, 14.VIII.2020, leg. H Sun et al.
Redescription. Adult (Fig. 1a). Wingspan 15.5−22.5 mm. Head dark brown, with purplish shine. Antenna lutescent, slightly shorter or nearly as long as forewing; scape blackish brown dorsally; flagellum ringed with brown. Labial palpus with second palpomere dark brown, mixed with white scales at base dorsally; third palpomere slender, about 1/2 as long as second, greyish white, with dense brown scales at base and apex. Thorax and tegula lutescent to yellowish white. Forewing lutescent to yellowish white, with scattered brown scales; costal margin black basally; discal, discocellular and plical spots blackish brown, irregular in shape, relatively small; subterminal fascia greyish brown, from distal 1/5 of costal margin extending to before tornus; terminal dots blackish brown, from preapex along termen to tornus; fringe lutescent. Hindwing greyish brown, costal margin greyish white along basal 2/3; fringe greyish brown. Fore- and midlegs blackish brown to greyish white. Hindleg greyish white, with dense brown scales on outer surface.
Male genitalia (Fig. 1b). Tegumen narrow, gently arched, with a small notch at middle on posterior margin. Costal part of valva arched, wide basally, narrowed to pointed apex distally, sparsely setose, with a large sclerotized flap basally; saccular part of valva slightly shorter than costal part, gradually narrowed from base to basal 2/3; distal 1/3 digitate, with long sparse setae, rounded at apex. Juxta with basal 1/5 sub-quadrate, straight and sclerotized on anterior margin; distal 4/5 gradually narrowed to rounded apex, preapically with a cluster of spines, laterally between distal 2/5 and preapex with a large, sclerotized triangular flap curved inward. Aedeagus long and slender, about 1.5 times length of saccular part of valva, sclerotized, with short fine spines and gradules distally; cornuti consisting of a cluster of easily shed long spines bearing teeth basally.
Female genitalia (Fig. 1c). Papillae anales sub-cylindrical, rounded on posterior margin, with dense short setae posteriorly and with long setae anteriorly. Apophyses anteriores approximately half length of apophyses posteriores. Eighth tergite sub-rectangular; eighth sternite rounded and with long setae on posterior margin. Antrum membranous, sub-trapezoidal, concave on posterior margin on ventral surface. Ductus bursae membranous, enlarged anterad antrum; ductus seminalis arising from posterior 1/3 of ductus bursae. Corpus bursae ovoid, about 0.6 times length of ductus bursae; with two densely dentate signa, one signum ovoid, the other sub-rectangular.
Distribution. China (Fujian, Guangxi, Hunan, Zhejiang).
Note. The female of this species is described for the first time.
description: Published as part of Wang, Shuxia & Tao, Zhulin, 2021, The genus Locheutis Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from the Palaearctic and Oriental regions, with descriptions of four new species, pp. 561-570 in Zootaxa 4952 (3) on pages 562-564, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4952.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/4690686