Stenoloba mossy 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 mossy

description: <i>Stenoloba mossy</i> Behounek &amp; Kononenko sp. n. (Figs. 26, 69) <b>Type material.</b> Holotype: female, S Vietnam, Plato Ty Nguyen, Mt. Ngoclinh, 900–1400 m, 15°02’N, 107°59’O, 10.–25.viii 1996 (Sinajev &amp; Afonin leg.), genitalia slide GB 5317. The holotype is in the collection of G. Behounek, to be deposited to ZSM, Munich, Germany. <b>Diagnosis.</b> The species is close to <i>S. siamensis</i>, but differs by smaller size, darker mossy-green color of forewing with less sharp and contrasting wing pattern and prominent white surrounding of the postmedial line, expressed in its lower part. In female genitalia, it is close to <i>S.</i> siamensis and together with the former probably belongs to <i>basiviridis</i> species group. It differs from <i>S. siamensis</i> by smaller papillae anales, narrower, but longer antrum and antevaginal plate and shorter sclerotized band in cervix bursae. Male unknown. <b>Description.</b> Adult (Fig. 26). Wingspan: 21 mm. Head and thorax mossy-green, thoracic crest present; ground color of forewing dark, mossy-green wing pattern distinct, formed by black and white lines; basal field mossy-green, darker in costal area, basal line separated in black dots; subbasal field with blackish suffusion, darker in costal area; antemedial line diffused, black, bordered with white; mossy-green, darker in costal area; orbicular rounded, formed by black bordering line; reniform 8-shaped, with whitish nucleus, bordered by thin black line; medial line diffused, black; postmedial line thin, black, arising from costal area above reniform, incurved outward, then following inward to ventral margin, bordered by whitish line, most prominent in lower part of wing; subterminal and terminal fields mossy-green, weakly separated by diffused whitish line; subterminal streak black, surrounded with whitish suffusion, terminal line expressed as row of large black streaks; cilia greyish-green, basally whitish. Hindwing brownish-grey, cilia pale, yellowish-grey. <b>Female genitalia</b> (Fig. 69). Papillae anales rather moderate, apophyses anterior almost equal to posterior ones in length; antrum very large, long, with central sclerotized plate, which narrows before ostium, extended proximally and having a rhomboidal proximal end, separated from ductus bursae by narrow membranous patch; ductus bursae with wide sclerotized band; bursa copulatrix sack-like, with large sclerotized patch in anterior part, forming small sclerotized extension. <b>Distribution.</b> (Fig. 82). North Vietnam. The species is known only from its type-locality, where it occurs in mountains at elevations of 900 1400 m. <b>Etymology.</b> The species name is derived from its characteristic mossy-green wing coloration.
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 12-13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2679.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5301975