Cidariplura hbun Wu & Owada & Wang 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Wu, Shipher
name: Owada, Mamoru
name: Wang, Min
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Cidariplura
Cidariplura hbun

description: Cidariplura hbun sp. nov.
(Figs 19–22, 30, 32, 44, 45, 54, 55)
Cidariplura shanmeii: Wu et al., 2013: 148, figs 37, 38, 64, 69, 80, part, nec Wu & Owada, 2013.
Type material. Holotype, ♂, Ilan, Fushan Botanical Garden, 700 m, 12. V. 2019, NSMT3473 ♂, M. Owada & S. Wu leg. (TFRI) (Fig. 19). Paratypes (7♂ 6♀): Taiwan. Nantou Co., Lianhuachi, 600 m, 1♂, 12. VII. 2010, slide TFRI 160285, C. C. Kuo; the same collecting locality, 1♂, 10. VIII. 2010, TFRI153115, C. C. Kuo leg.; the same locality, 1♀, 7. X. 2010, TFRI 160565, C. C. Kuo (TFRI); Lienhuachih [= Lianhuachi], 700 m, 1♀, 17–18. VII. 2012, NSMT3282 ♀, M. Owada & L. Shih leg. (NSMT) (the above paratypes of C. hbun were designated as paratypes of C. shanmeii in Wu et al., 2013); Ilan, Fushan Botanical Garden, 700 m, 2♂, 12. V. 2019, M. Owada & S. Wu leg. (NSMT); Taitung, Guanfu, 1♂, 6. XII. 2010, slide TFRI129041, Y. C. Lin leg. (TFRI). China. Hunan, Chenzhou, Guidong, Qiyunshan, 1♂, 1,100 m, 9. IX. 2018, NSMT3303 ♂ (SCAU); Guangdong, Heyuan, Liangping, Tianyuan, Jiulianshan, 200 m, 1♂ 3♀, 18–19. V. 2018, NSMT3288 ♀, NSMT3304 ♀, NSMT3331 ♂, NSMT3332 ♀, Shaoguan, Xinfeng, Jiulianshan, 250 m, 1♀, 20. V. 2018, M. Wang et al. leg. (SCAU and NSMT).
Diagnosis. See diagnosis of Cidariplura shanmeii.
Description. Measurements. Forewing length 12–16 mm in males (n= 7); 12–14 mm in females (n= 8). Eye large; antenna ciliate, male with a pair of long bristles on each segment, length of bristle 2 X diameter of shaft in median region. Head, all segments of thorax as well as femur, tibia and 1st tarsal segment chocolate brown. Male labial palpus (Fig. 30) specialized as follows: 1st segment very long, upcurved along frons, surpassing vertex, smoothly covered with ordinary scales; 2 nd segment bent at right angle to 1 st segment, slender, slightly curved, 0. 5 X shorter than 1 st, reaching the anterior part of thorax, internally with specialized ochreous scales which are elongated and enlarged at their apices; 3 rd long and stout, 3 X to 3. 5 X longer than 2 nd, basal part of labial palpus wider than medial part, internally with long blackish scales which are slender and almost twice as long as those on 2 nd. Labial palpus in female: 3 rd shorter than 2 nd, slender, tapering towards apex. Legs: male foretibia with apical spine. Forewing broad, slightly excurved, apex near right-angled; ground coloration chocolate brown; antemedial and postmedial line slender, light ochreous, the former oblique, wave-like, the latter smoothly excurved outward at discal cell part; orbicular and reniform stigmata white, the former small, the latter moderate size, lunate-shaped; submarginal line slender, ochreous, wave-like; outer margin ochreous; marginal scales chocolate brown. Hindwing chocolate brown; medial line ochreous with one ochreous spot situated at outside of tornal area; outer margin ochreous; marginal scales chocolate brown. Abdomen brown, 8th segment unmodified.
Male genitalia (Figs 44, 45)—Uncus broad, stout, apex hook-like. Tegumen and vinculum long, equal in length; saccus V-shaped, medial part elongated anteriorly. Valva distinctively trifurcate, costal process heavily sclerotized, apex curved ventrally, distal portion of valva broad, sclerotized, saccular process narrow, elongated, covered with hair tufts. Juxta plate-like, transtilla indistinct. Aedeagus stout, straight, 1. 25 X longer than valva; vesical densely scobinate without cornutus.
Female genitalia (Figs 54, 55)—Papillae anales membranous with short hair-like setae; both pairs of apophyses slender; ductus bursae long, with pair of broad lateral sclerites flattened basally. Corpus bursae elliptical, ca. 1. 33 X longer than ductus bursae, basal half part surrounding with dense internal spinous patch; ductus seminalis arising from lateral base of corpus bursae, broadened and coiled basally.
Distribution and phenology. Taiwan and China. This species occurs sympatrically and synchronously with C. shanmeii in Northern and Central Taiwan. The first generation on the wing in spring to summer is generally larger than the second generation in autumn.
Etymology. Named after the old regional name in Atayal language, Hbun, of the type locality, Fushan, noun in apposition.
description: Published as part of Wu, Shipher, Owada, Mamoru & Wang, Min, 2019, Review of Cidariplura Butler, 1879 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Herminiinae). Part 1: the Cidariplura gladiata species complex, pp. 489-502 in Zootaxa 4668 (4) on page 500, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3449868