Gargela renatusalis Walker 1859
Creators: name: Song, Shimei
name: Chen, Fuqiang
name: Wu, Chunsheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Gargela
Gargela renatusalis

description: Gargela renatusalis (Walker, 1859)
Figs. 2, 14, 25
Zebronia renatusalis Walker, 1859, List Lep. Ins. B. M., 17: 484. Type-locality: Sarawak, Borneo.
Gargela subpurella Walker, 1864, List Lep. Ins. B. M., 29: 815.
Angonia crambidalis Snellen, 1893, Tijds. v. Ent., 36: 56, pl. 3, fig. 1.
Mixophyla renatalis: Meyrick, 1894, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1894: 470.
Mixophila renatusalis: Hampson, 1896, Fauna Br. India (Moths), 4: 190, fig.113; Hampson, 1897, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1897: 135 (3); Caradja, 1925, Mem. Sect. Stiint. Acad. Rom. (3) 3: 328; Caradja & Meyrick, 1934, Deu. Ent. Zeit. Iris, 47: 153; Caradja & Meyrick, 1937, Deu. Ent. Zeit. Iris, 51: 159.
Gargela renatusalis: Luh & Kuan, 1953, Acta Entomologica Sinica, 3(2): 206; Robinson et al., 1994, A Field Guide to the Smaller Moths of South-East Asia: 163, pl.27, fig.11; Wang, Song, Wu & Chen, 2003, Fauna of Pyralidae of Wuyishan Nature Reserve in China: 52.
Material examined. IZCAS: 1Ƥ, Jiangxi, Doushui (25.8ºN, 114.5ºE), 1975. VII.5, leg. Song Shmei (genital slide number C1675); 1Ƥ, Jiangxi, Neiliang (25.3ºN, 114.0ºE), 1985. VII.22, Song Shimei (C1369); 13, Jiangxi, Dayu (25.3ºN, 114.3ºE), 1975. VII.14, Song Shimei (C1684); 13, Fujian, Mt. Wuyi (26.4ºN, 116.4ºE), 1988. VIII.7; 131Ƥ, Fujian, Mt. Wuyi (26.4ºN, 116.4ºE), 2000. VII.27, Song Shimei, Wang Jiashe (C1660); 1Ƥ, Fujian, Tiankui (24.5ºN, 117.3ºE), 1980. XI.6, Zhang Baolin; 134Ƥ, Taiwan, Yilan, Fushan (24.7ºN, 121.7ºE), 620m, 2008. IV.12, Chen Fuqiang (C1697, 1698); 1Ƥ, Taiwan, Gaoxiong, Tengzhi (22.6ºN, 120.3ºE), 1550m, 2008. IV.15, Chen Fuqiang; 13, Sichuan, Mt. Emei (29.5ºN, 103.3ºE), 1700m, 1979. V.25, Bai Jiuwei (C834); 1Ƥ, locality and collector same as above, 1979. VI.12 (C1695); 13, Guangxi, Mt. Miao’er (25.8ºN, 110.4ºE), 1985. VII.22, Song Shimei (C1077); 134Ƥ, Guizhou, Daozhen, Dashahe (23.8ºN, 107.5ºE), 900–1400m, 2004. VIII.22–25, Chen Fuqiang (C1635, C1636). TFRI: 132Ƥ, Taiwan, Yilan, Fushan (24.7ºN, 121.7ºE), 1995. VII.26–27, J.J. Hsiao; 13, Taiwan, Yilan, Fushan (24.7ºN, 121.7ºE), 1995. III.30, W.T. Jou; 2Ƥ, Taiwan, Yilan, Fushan (24.7ºN, 121.7ºE), 1995. IV.28, A. Wameke, J.J. Hsiao; 1Ƥ, Taiwan, Yilan, Fushan (24.7ºN, 121.7ºE), 1995. VIII.29, A. Wameke; 2Ƥ, Taiwan, Yilan, Fushan (24.7ºN, 121.7ºE), 1994. X.4, Y.C. Sen.
Distribution. China (Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan); E. Himalaya, Burma, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, New Guinea.
Remarks. The species is recorded by Caradja for several times, but we did not check the specimens in his works. The specimens we identified are mainly based on the redescription of Hampson (1896, 1897).
This species is similar to G. e r m i n e u s (Moore, 1886) in both external and genital characters. In external character, both species have a black spot on submarginal area and a black patch on the middle of inner margin on forewing, but this species has the black patch larger. In genital character, both species have a spine-like cornutus in aedeagus and similar juxta, but this species has the cornutus stronger and the costal arm sharper and slender than G. e r m i n e u s; in female genitalia, the two species are similar except the ostium bursa. The examined materials of G. ermineus are from Sri Lanka.
description: Published as part of Song, Shimei, Chen, Fuqiang & Wu, Chunsheng, 2009, A review of the genus Gargela Walker in China, with descriptions of ten new species (Lepidoptera: Crambidae, Crambinae), pp. 40-56 in Zootaxa 2090 on pages 42-44, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.187477