Lophomilia violescens Yoshimoto 1993
Creators: name: Kononenko, Vladimir
name: Behounek, Gottfried
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Lophomilia
Lophomilia violescens

description: Lophomilia violescens Yoshimoto, 1993
(Figs. 23, 37)
Lophomilia violescens Yoshimoto, 1993, Moths of Nepal. Tinea, 13, (Supplement 3): 77, Pl. 53: 19, Type-locality: Nepal, Godavari. Holotype: male, preserved in NSM, Tokyo.
Material examined. Type series in the collection of NSM (Tokyo).
Diagnosis. The species (Fig. 23) differs from its congeners by dark purplish-grey coloration of body and forewing, and wing pattern formed by thin blackish lines and a black streak along median vein. Wingspan 24–28 mm. Male genitalia (Fig. 37) are characterized by stout and relatively short uncus, broadened before tip; valva conspicuous broadened apically; thick and long clasper-harpe complex, slightly exceeding apical margin of valva; shallow saccus with short saccular process, bearing acute dorsal projection and heart-shaped juxta, with a wide-based and caudally projected process at the middle. Aedeagus rather wide, vesica scobinated, bearing scobinated patch near base. The female is unknown.
Distribution and biology. (Fig. 59). Central Nepal. The type series was collected in May (6.v), April (2.iv) and August (4.viii) 1991 and 1992 at elevations of 1200–1600 m at Mt. Phulchouki near Kathmandu. Probably bivoltine, adults occuring in hillside forest. The larvae and foodplants are unknown.
Lophomilia kobesi Kononenko & Behounek sp. n.
(Figs. 21, 22, 36)
Type material. Holotype. INDONESIA, SUMATRA: male, Sumatra North, “Reg. Sumatera Utara, Barisan Gebirge, Dairi-East, 10–30 km E Sidikalang, 800–1820 m, 8.vi.1997, Dr. Diehl leg. / Gen. slide 6540 GB.” Paratypes 1 male with same label as holotype, 25.iv.1981 coll. GB; 1 male, Dairi Mts., 800–1900 m, 19.iv.1998, Gen slide 6539 GB, coll. GB; 1 male Toba See W.Ufer, SE Tele, 1150–1600 m, 28.vii.1985, coll.
GB; 1 male, same datas, coll. ZSM; 2 males, Prapat, Holzweg 3, 1040–1150 m, 26.iii.1984, coll ZSM, all paratypes collected by Dr. Diehl. The holotype is in the collection of Zoologische Sammlung des Bayerischen Staates (ZSM), Munich, Germany; paratypes are in ZSM and in the collection of G. Behounek.
Diagnosis. Externally Lophomilia kobesi is close to L. violescens but differs by the longer labial palpi, more purplish coloration and more complex wing pattern represented by thin lines of ground pattern and thin whitish lines along veins. The male genitalia differ by having a longer uncus, short and massive saccular extension, structure of juxta and shape and armature of the aedeagus.
Description. Adult (Fig. 21). Wingspan 24–28 mm. Labial palpi long, narrow, flattened ventrally, with long 2nd segment and pointed 3rd segment, which is 2 to2.5 times shorter than 2nd. Abdomen with tuft of black scales on segments 1–3. Forewing narrow, like in L. violescens, apically pointed. Ground color of forewing dark purplish brown with some magenta tint. Basal line not expressed, basal field with dark shadow in costal area. Antemedial line thin, black with thin whitish surrounding, distinct in dorsal part of wing, traceable in costal part, acutely angulated towards base; postmedial line thin, black, with thin white surrounding, arises on dorsum as a narrow, white, oblique bar, narrowing to thin line beyond Cu1 and sharply angled towards base at costa; orbicular not expressed, reniform stigma reduced to diffused spot; distinct orange-brown patch lies in medial field at dorsal margin between antemedian and white bar of postmedian lines; two thin black streaks surrounded by whitish border running from reniform stigma along veins to angle of postmedial line; subterminal field magenta-brown, darker and more blackish in inner part, with white streak at costa, suffused by grey in costal part before apex; subterminal line dark-magenta, diffused, surrounded by thin white line at outer side; terminal field greyish magenta-brown, orange brown around tornal angle, darker in outer part and costal parts; veins in basal, subbasal and postmedial fields expressed as thin white-yellowish streaks; terminal line whitish; cilia brown and yellowish. Hindwing yellowish-brown, slightly darker in costal and terminal parts. Male genitalia (Fig. 36). Uncus moderate, sickle-like; tegumen two times longer than vinculum; scaphium not expressed; juxta inverted V-shaped, with two sclerotised lobes and “head”, transtilla heavily sclerotised, wide; sacculus small, with short massive extension; valva moderately long, with almost parallel margins, rounded at apex; costa expressed, clasper-harpe complex long, in longitudinal position parallel to dorsal margin, not fused with costa. Aedeagus moderate, with sclerotised ribbed terminal part and with carina bearing 6–7 short wide spines; vesica bulbous, short; with three short finely scobinated diverticula, without cornuti. The female is unknown.
Distribution and biology. (Fig. 62). Indonesia, Sumatra. The type series was collected from March to the end of July in montane regions at elevations of 800 to 1820 m. The larvae and foodplants are unknown.
Etymology. The species is dedicated to our colleague Professor Lutz W. R. Kobes (Göttingen, Germany).
description: Published as part of Kononenko, Vladimir & Behounek, Gottfried, 2009, A revision of the genus Lophomilia Warren, 1913 with description of four new species from East Asia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Hypeninae), pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 1989 on pages 14-17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274658