Rhopobota latispina Zhang & Li, 2012, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zhang, Aihuan
name: Li, Houhun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Tortricidae
Rhopobota
Rhopobota latispina

description: Rhopobota latispina sp. nov.
(Figs. 5, 10, 13)
Diagnosis. This species is similar to R. furcata Zhang, Li & Wang, 2005, but it can be distinguished from the latter by the presence of the basal patch, the median fascia, and the speculum on the forewing, and the male genitalia with horn-shaped arms of the uncus and the cucullus rounded at the ventral angle. In R. furcata the forewing has a brown streak extending from the anterior angle of the cell that bifurcates near the termen, the arms of the uncus are short-clubbed, and the cucullus is protruded on the ventral angle. Rhopobota latispina is also similar to R. shikokuensis (Oku, 1971) in the shape of the arms of the uncus and the socius, but R. latispina can be distinguished by the concave valva at about basal 3/5 on the ventral margin and the cucullus about twice as long as wide; in R. shikokuensis the valva is concave at about the middle of the ventral margin, and the cucullus is more than twice as long as wide.
Description. Adult (Fig. 5). Head: Vertex with brown scales; frons white. Antenna brown except white scape. Labial palpus with basal two segments brown outside, inner side white; third segment small, white and porrect. Thorax: Dorsum and tegula grayish brown. Forewing length 5.5 mm; upperside ground color gray; basal patch brown, extending from costal 1/4 to 1/3 of dorsum; median fascia brown, extending from costal half to before tornus; speculum nearly oval, gray, with brown dots; costa with nine pairs of white strigulae from base to apex: strigulae 1-4 indistinct, between base and intersection of Sc with costa, strigulae 3-4 almost mixed with ground color; strigulae 5 and 6 between Sc and R1; distal three pairs more distinct than others, distributed between pairs of veins R1-R2, R2-R3, R3-R4; cilia gray, with brown basal line. Hindwing and cilia gray. Foreleg brown; midleg grayish brown, with brown scales on tarsus; hindleg gray, tarsus brown. Abdomen: Male genitalia (Fig. 10) with uncus bearing long bifid arms, horn-shaped, narrower at end, bending outward; socius reduced to a short triangular projection, haired. Valva broad at base, concave on ventral margin at about basal 3/5; neck distinct, about 2/3 width of base; sacculus with a cluster of hairs on ventral edge of basal opening; cucullus nearly quadrate, hairy, apex rounded, ventral margin with group of spiniform setae, ventral angle rounded. Phallus broad and short, tubular; cornuti numerous, spiculate. Female genitalia (Fig. 13) with papilla analis narrow and long, hairy; posterior apophysis as long as anterior apophysis. Ostium quadrate; sterigma produced into two lateral sclerites. Ductus bursae broad and short, sclerotized except membranous at base and near intersection with corpus bursae. Corpus bursae pyriform, with a large, inverted V-shaped sclerite extending from entrance of corpus bursae to about half length along sides; two spine-like signa with rounded bases.
Holotype. Male, CHINA: Zhejiang Province: Mt. Tianmu (30.26˚N, 119.34˚E), Houshanmen, 500 m, 16.viii. 1999 (Houhun Li et al.), genitalia slide no. ZAH04340.
Paratypes. 1 male, same data as holotype; 1 male, Zhejiang Province: Sanmuping, Mt. Tianmu, 800 m, 19.viii.1999 (Houhun Li et al.); 1 female, Zhejiang Province: Mt. Tianmu, Kaishanlaodian, 1140 m, 16.viii.1999 (Houhun Li et al.).
Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin latispinus, referring to the thick spiniform setae on ventral side base of the cucullus.
description: Published as part of Zhang, Aihuan & Li, Houhun, 2012, Descriptions of five new species of the genus Rhopobota Lederer (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) in China, along with a checklist of all the described Chinese species, pp. 373-382 in Zootaxa 3478 on pages 378-379, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.282284