Gnophopsodos tholeraria Pungeler 1901
Creators: name: Erlacher, Sven
name: Erlacher, Josepha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Geometridae
Gnophopsodos
Gnophopsodos tholeraria

description: 9. Gnophopsodos tholeraria (Püngeler, 1901)
(adults Pl. 2, Figs 9a, 9b; male gen. Pl. 4, Figs 9c, 9d; female gen. Pl. 5, Fig. 9e)
Gnophos tholeraria Püngeler, 1901, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift Iris, 14: 189, pl. 3, figs. 14, 15.— Locus typicus: China, near Aksu. Deposition of Lectotype: MNHU. Examined.
Material examined. Type material. Lectotype Ƌ (Pl. 2, Fig. 9a; Pl. 4, Fig. 9c) (hereby designated): [China:] ‘Ost- Turkestan | (Aksu) | Rückbeil 1900’, ‘ Type | tholeraria Püng [eler] | Ƌ’, ‘ Gnophos | tholeraria | [gen. prep.] | in Berlese-Gemisch | wasserlöslich | Ƌ Holotyp. | Rezbanyai – Reser No. 26479.’, ‘ Aksu | 1900’, ‘ Reser –26479 Ƌ | gen. prep. | Reser’, MNHU.
Paralectotypes 2Ƌ, 1♀ (Pl. 2, Fig. 9b; Pl. 5, Fig. 9e) (hereby designated): China: 1Ƌ (Pl. 4, Fig. 9d), East Turkestan, Aksu, leg. Rückbeil 1900, gen. prep. SE–593; 1Ƌ, same data; 1♀, East Turkestan, Aksu, leg. Rückbeil 1900, gen. prep. Reser –26480, MNHU.— Further material. China: 1Ƌ, Turkestan, Aksu, leg. R. Tancré, barcode id. SE–MNC– Lep –01072; 1Ƌ, same location, <unreadable>, 1905, SE–MNC– Lep –01073, ZSM.
Description. Adults (Pl. 2, Figs 9a, 9b).
Measurements. Wingspan: 27–28 mm (Ƌ), 29 mm (♀); forewing length: 15–16 mm (Ƌ), 15 mm (♀); forewing width: 9–10 mm (Ƌ), 9 mm (♀).
Wings. Upper side dirty white, roughly diffused with darker patches of grayish-brown scales; medial lines grayish-brown, occasionally blurring with background coloration; underside similar to upper side, blurred; fringes yellowish-white or white.
Male genitalia (Pl. 4, Figs 9c, 9d). Total length: 1.44–1.51 mm; valvae span: 1.18 mm; valvulae span: 1.35 mm; valvae width: 0.78 mm. Costa weakly sclerotized, uneven padded, costal thorns lacking; uncus broadly rounded with moderately pointed small peak; gnathos laterally compressed, strongly pointed; juxta keyholeshaped, caudally constricted, terminal broadened again with rounded caudal end; saccus remarkably short; aedeagus length: 0.59–0.64 mm; appendix aedeagi: 0.86–0.87 mm.
Female genitalia (Pl. 5, Fig. 9e). Antrum length: 0.7 mm; antrum width: 0.3 mm.
Diagnosis. Externally, the dirty white basic color diffused with patches of grayish-brown scales is characteristically for G. tholeraria. Internally, the species is distinctive because of the keyhole-shaped juxta, the spoon-shaped and incised appendix aedeagi and the remarkably short saccus. Therefore it can hardly be confused with any other species of the genus.
Distribution (Fig. 5). All examined specimens were collected near Aksu in China. Kaila et al. (1996) mentioned G. tholeraria from Kaindy in Kyrgyzstan.
Biology. As far as known the flight period is mid-July (Kaila et al. 1996).
description: Published as part of Erlacher, Sven & Erlacher, Josepha, 2016, A systematic revision of the genus Gnophopsodos Wehrli, 1945, with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae), pp. 435-456 in Zootaxa 4169 (3) on pages 453-454, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/267918