Scythropiodes malivora Meyrick 1930
Creators: name: Wang, Qingyun
name: Li, Houhun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lecithoceridae
Scythropiodes
Scythropiodes malivora

description: Scythropiodes malivora (Meyrick, 1930)
Figs 14, 29, 41
Odites malivora Meyrick, 1930: 555. TL: China (Heilongjiang: Manchuria). TD: BMNH. Odites xenophaea Meyrick, 1931: 74.
Scythropiodes xenophaea (Meyrick): Lvovsky, 1996: 650.
Scythropiodes malivora (Meyrick): Park & Wu, 1997: 32.
Diagnosis. Adult (Fig. 14) with wingspan 19.0–28.0 mm. This species is similar to S. ussuriella Lvovsky, 1996, but differs from the latter in the male genitalia by the apical process of the valva being deeply concave at the base of the outer margin, and by the phallus having neither a process at distal 1/5 nor denticles preapically (Fig. 29). In S. ussuriella, the valva has an apical process shallowly concave at the base of the outer margin, and the phallus has a thorn-shaped process at distal 1/5 and two small preapical denticles (Park & Wu 1997: Figs 17–18).
Material examined. CHINA: Tianjin: 1 Ƌ, Ji County, 170 m, 20.VII.2004, coll. Houhun Li et al.; Hebei Province: 1 ♀, Suanzaoping, 670 m, 28.VII.2000, coll. Haili Yu; 1 Ƌ, She County, 700 m, 31.VII.2000, coll. Haili Yu; Zhejiang Province: 1 ♀, Mt. Tianmu, 500 m, 16.VIII.1999, coll. Houhun Li et al.; 2 Ƌ, Xianrending, 1500 m, 18.VIII.1999, coll. Houhun Li et al.; 8 Ƌ, Mt. Tianmu, 1140 m, 17.VIII.1999, coll. Houhun Li et al.; 7 Ƌ, 4 ♀, Mt. Tianmu, 400 m, 24.VII–1.VIII.2011, coll. Lingling Yang and Na Chen; 3 Ƌ, 2 ♀, Mt. Tianmu, 1000 m, 28– 29.VII.2011, coll. Lingling Yang and Na Chen; 2 Ƌ, 2 ♀, Mt. Tianmu, 566 m, 18.VII.2014, coll. Aihui Yin et al.; 1 Ƌ, Mt. Tianmu, 789 m, 11.VIII.2014, coll. Aihui Yin et al.; 3 Ƌ, 3 ♀, Mt. Tianmu, 866 m, 12–15.VIII.2014, coll. Aihui Yin et al.; 2 Ƌ, Mt. Tianmu, 555 m, 16.VIII.2014, coll. Aihui Yin et al.; 1 Ƌ, Mt. Longxu, 754 m, 22.VII.2014, coll. Aihui Yin et al.; 1 ♀, Mt. Longxu, 778 m, 20.VIII.2014, coll. Aihui Yin et al.; 1 ♀, Mt. Longxu, 754 m, 23.VIII.2014, coll. Aihui Yin et al.; 3 Ƌ, Mt. Longtang, 520 m, 25–26.VII.2014, coll. Aihui Yin et al.; Anhui Province: 1 Ƌ, 1 ♀, Mt. Jiuhua, 9.VIII.2004, coll. Jiasheng Xu and Jialiang Zhang; Fujian Province: 1 Ƌ, Mt. Wuyi, 740 m, 27.VII.2008, coll. Weichun Li et al.; Shandong Province: 4 Ƌ, Linyi City, 29.VII.2009, coll. Qing Jin; Henan Province: 2 Ƌ, Xinyang City, 700 m, 13.VII.2001, coll. Dandan Zhang; 2 Ƌ, Lushi County, 1100 m, 7.VIII.2006, coll. Hui Zhen and Denghui Kuang; Hunan Province: 2 Ƌ, Sangzhi County, 1250 m, 12– 13.VIII.2001, coll. Houhun Li and Xinpu Wang; 1 ♀, Zhangjiajie, 650 m, 8.VIII.2001, coll. Houhun Li and Xinpu Wang; Sichuan Province: 1 Ƌ, Mabian Yizu Autonomous County, 900 m, 21.VII.2004, coll. Yingdang Ren; Chongqing City: 1 Ƌ, Mt. Simian, 1280 m, 14.VII.2012, coll. Yinhui Sun and Aihui Yin; 1 ♀, Mt. Simian, 900 m, 18.VII.2012, coll. Yinhui Sun and Aihui Yin; 1 ♀, Youyang County, 660 m, 26.VII.2012, coll. Yinhui Sun and Aihui Yin; Guizhou Province: 2 Ƌ, Jiangkou County, 600 m, 27.VII.2001, coll. Houhun Li and Xinpu Wang; 1 ♀, Mt. Fanjing, 2100 m, 30.VII.2001, coll. Houhun Li and Xinpu Wang; 1 ♀, Daozhen Gelaozu Miaozu Autonomous County, 1350 m, 25.V.2004, coll. Shulian Hao; Gansu Province: 1 ♀, Bifenggou, 860 m, 12.VII.2005, coll. Haili Yu.
Host plants. Euphorbiaceae: Sapium sebiferum; Fagaceae: Castanea crenata; Lythraceae: Lagerstroemia indica; Rosaceae: Malus pumila (Park & Wu 1997; Sakamaki 2013). Moriuti (1982) mentioned that the larvae of this species were leaf-rollers.
Distribution. China (Anhui, Chongqing, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hunan, Shandong, Sichuan, Tianjin, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Korea, Japan, Russia.
description: Published as part of Wang, Qingyun & Li, Houhun, 2016, Review of the genus Scythropiodes Matsumura, 1931 (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae, Oditinae) from China, with a checklist of the world, pp. 301-329 in Zootaxa 4132 (3) on page 312, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4132.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258365