Hyperlais claralis Yepishin & Bidzilya & Budashkin & Zhakov & Mushynskyi & Novytskyi 2020, stat. rev., comb. nov.
Creators: name: Yepishin, Viktor
name: Bidzilya, Oleksiy
name: Budashkin, Yuriy
name: Zhakov, Oleksandr
name: Mushynskyi, Vadym
name: Novytskyi, Sergiy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Hyperlais
Hyperlais claralis

description: Hyperlais claralis (Caradja, 1916) stat. rev., comb. nov.   
(Figs 1–6, 12–15)  
 Cybalomia lutosalis var. claralis Caradja, 1916: 27. TL: Kuldja [Yining, China].   
 Hyperlais sp. Zolotuhin 2005: 5–6, fig. 2, fig. 2 on the second page of the cover.   
 Material examined: Ukraine: 3♀, Mykolaiv reg., Mykolaiv, 9.viii.1933 (collector unknown), genitalia slide: V. Yepishin prep. no. 165.19 ♀ (ZMKU). 1♀, Kherson reg., Hola Prystan distr., Burkuty, 30.iv–1.v.2017 (V. Mushynskyi, O. Zhakov), genitalia slide: V. Yepishin prep. no. 163.19 ♀ (VM). 1♀, Kherson reg., Hola Prystan distr., vic. Burkuty, 22.vi.2017 (O. Bidzilya) (ZMKU). 2♂, 1♀, Kherson reg., Hola Prystan distr., Burkuty, 46°23’39.3”N 32°48’34.3”E, 9–10.v.2018 (V. Mushynskyi, O. Zhakov), 22–23.vi.2018 (V. Mushynskyi), genitalia slide: V. Yepishin prep. no. 164.19 ♂ (VM). 7♂, Kherson reg., Hola Prystan dst., 1,5 km SE Burkuty, steppe, 46°23’36”N 32°48’37”E, at light, 12–14.vii.2019 (V. Yepishin) (VYe). 1♂, Zaporizhzhia reg., Yakymivka distr., vic. Sheliuhy, Utliutskyi lyman, 28.vi.2014 (I. Kovaliov) (VM). 2♂, Zaporizhzhia reg., Yakymivka distr., Atmanai, 15–16.v.2015 (V. Mushynskyi), genitalia slide: V. Yepishin prep. no. 162.19 ♂ (VM). 1♀, Zaporizhzhia reg., Yakymivka distr., Kyrylivka, Fedotova spit, 10.vii.2018 (V. Mushynskyi), genitalia slide: V. Yepishin prep. no. 161.19 ♀ (VM). Kazakhstan: 1♀, [Almaty reg.], Dzharkent [Zharkent], 1915 [collector unknown], genitalia slide: V. Yepishin prep. no. 136.19 ♀ (ZMKU).   
 Additional specimens studied. H. siccalis: France: 1♂, Gallia merid., Hautes Pyrenees, Vallée d`Ossoue, 1450m, 16.vii.1961 (K. Burmann), genitalia slide: V. Yepishin prep. no. 352.20 ♂ (SMNK). Spain: 1♂, 4♀, His- pania, Prov. Sevilla, Mazagon, 0–100m, 5.vi.1975 (M. u. W. Glaser), genitalia slide: V. Yepishin prep. no. 357.20 ♀ (SMNK). H. lutosalis: Spain: 2♂, 1♀, Hispania, Prov. Granada Baza, 110 km nö. Granada, 10.v.1977, 6–7.x.1975, 22–26.v.1979 (M. u. W. Glaser), genitalia slide: V. Yepishin prep. no. 343.20 ♂, 351.20 ♀ (SMNK). H. rivasalis: Spain: 1♂, 2♀, Hispania, Prov. Granada Baza, 110 km nö. Granada, 18.ix.1974, 10.v.1977, 22–26.v.1979 (M. u. W. Glaser), genitalia slide: V. Yepishin prep. no. 362.20 ♂, 344.20 ♀, 361.20 ♀ (SMNK).   
 Remarks. Hyperlais claralis was described as a variation of Cybalomia lutosalis Mann, 1862 based on single male from Kuldja (now Yinin, W China). The holotype is stored in the MGAB. This specimen is an object under the National Heritage of Romania that makes its genitalia unavailable for study (M. Stanescu, pers. comm). However, a photograph of the holotype is available on the website of the National Institute of Heritage database (NIH database 2020) (Fig. 1). Specimens from Ukraine match externally to the male holotype of claralis and female from Dzharkent (now Zharkent, E Kazakhstan). The genitalia of the latter are indistinguishable from those of Ukrainian examples. Zharkent is quite close to Yining (type locality of claralis) and the female from Zharkent is similar both to specimens from Ukraine and to the holotype of claralis, so that we suggest that specimens from Ukraine and E Kazakhstan are conspecific with H. claralis.   
 Hyperlais sp. recorded from Kalmykia and Astrakhan region of Russia (Zolotuhin 2005) are identical, both externally and in the male genitalia, to specimens from Ukraine and accordingly, belong to H. claralis too. Photographs of Hyperlais specimens from Kherson region of Ukraine published by F. Graf on Lepiforum (2020) and specimen from Prymorskyi, Crimea (Savchuk 2020; as H. dulcinalis) also refer to this species.   
 Male genitalia and imago of H. claralis were described by Zolotuhin (2005). Here we provide an improved diagnosis and describe the female genitalia of H. claralis for the first time.   
 Diagnosis. Wingspan 12–16 mm. The ground colour of forewing from light yellow to ochre-brown, the post- and antemedial lines consist of black-white flakes, and look grey with a metallic sheen. The hindwings vary from uniformly grey to light with distinct medial line. Adults of Hyperlais claralis can hardly be separated externally from H. siccalis (Guenée, 1854). Hyperlais lutosalis (Mann, 1862) and H. rivasalis (Vázquez, 1905) have somewhat similar male genitalia but well differ by grey rather than ochre-brown ground colour and different wing pattern.   
 The male genitalia are characterized by long outwardly curved processes arising from the base of costal margin of valva in combination with brash of hair-like setae on the top of cucullus and aedeagus bearing long cornutus in its distal portion. Very similar to H. rivasalis except for costa and sacculus that are distinctly wider, outwardly curved processes are wider at base and shorter, cornutus in distal portion of aedeagus is longer. Hyperlais lutosalis also has processes at the base of valva, but very thin and long, brush of hairs is distinctly shorter (see for comparison Leraut 2012: 494, 499, figs 133c, 137b; Gaston et al. 2015: 655, figs 10–11). Knob-shaped in distal portion ductus bursae with gradual transition to narrow elongated corpus bursae is characteristic for the female genitalia of H. claralis. The female genitalia of H. rivasalis look very similar except for ductus bursae that is distinctly narrower (not rounded and inflated) in distal portion.   
 Description. Female genitalia (Figs 12–14). Papillae anales flat, U-shaped curved dorso-ventrally, densely covered with hairs. Apophyses posteriores bent at base, from 1.5 to 2× as long as the length of papilla analis; apophyses anteriores bent and expanded at base, the extension sometimes holds the tooth, 1.5× as long as the length of apophyses posteriores. The width of segment VIII twice the length, sclerotized at the base of apophyses anteriores. The posterior margin of the sternum VII densely covered with short spines that can extend to the membrane connecting sternum VII to ostium. Antrum funnel-shaped, very wide. Colliculum of irregular shape, broader than long. Distal portion of ductus bursae irregularly rounded, inflated, constricted before antrum. Ductus bursae membranous, 4× as long as the length of antrum, with gradual transition to ovate corpus bursa. No signa.   
 Variation. One specimen (Fig. 13) from Zaporizhzhia region have apophyses posteriores 1.2× as long as the length of papilla analis. Posterior portion of ductus bursae slightly varies from rounded weakly sclerotized to semispherical with distinctly sclerotized posterior portion in female from Mykolaiv (Fig. 14). However, the latter specimen agrees externally in all details with H. claralis from other localities, so that we consider these differences as individual variation.   
 Distribution. Ukraine (first record): Mykolaiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia regions and Crimea; S of European Russia (first record): Kalmykia, Astrakhan region (Zolotuhin 2005; Anikin et al. 2017 as Hyperlais sp.); E Kazakhstan (first record); NW China. New record for Europe.
description: Published as part of Yepishin, Viktor, Bidzilya, Oleksiy, Budashkin, Yuriy, Zhakov, Oleksandr, Mushynskyi, Vadym & Novytskyi, Sergiy, 2020, New records of little known pyraloid moths (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea) from Ukraine, pp. 101-120 in Zootaxa 4808 (1) on pages 103-105, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/3927960