Paragabara ochreipennis Sugi 1962
Creators: name: Kononenko, Vladimir S.
name: Han, Hui-Lin
name: Yu, Alexej
name: V, Ато
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Paragabara
Paragabara ochreipennis

description: Paragabara ochreipennis Sugi, 1962
(Figs. 13, 24, 34)
Paragabara ochreipennis Sugi, 1962, Akitu, 10: 39, Figs. 3, 4, 7 (Type-locality: Japan, Fukuoka Prefecture, Yoshii).
Material examined. Types. Holotype, male, Japan, Yoshii, Fukuoka Pref., 21. iv. 1958 (N. Gyotoku) (Coll. S. Sugi, presently in NIAST, Tsukuba, Japan). Other material: RUSSIA: 1 male, Primorye terr., Spassk distr., Jakovlevka, 23.vi. – 12.viii.1926, leg. A.M. Djakonov & I.N. Filipjev; Nadezhdinsky distr.: 2 males, De-Friz peninsula, 28.viii.1960, 18.viii.1964, leg. M. Omel’ko; Khasan distr.: 2 males, south Primorye terr., Khasan district, Lebedinoe, 20–24.vi.1988, leg. D. Obydov, ex coll. A.V. Nekrasov (ZISP); 3 males, 2 Ryazanovka 8– 12 viii 1982 (V. Kononenko) (IBSS); 3 male, 1 female, Kedrovaya Pad nature reserve, 20.vii–3.viii 1984 (V. Kononenko) (IBSS); CHINA: 1 male NE China, “Manchzhuria, Ertsendjantszy station”; 5.vi.1911, leg. Emeljanov (ZISP); 12 males, 6 females, “Shanghai, Prov. Kiangsu, 30.viii, 27.ix. 1926 (Höne) (ZFMK); JAPAN: 1 male, 1 female, Japan, ex coll. K.S. Popov [ZISP]; 3 males, Japan, Hokkaido, Odaira. 26– 29.vii.1954 (coll. P. Savolainen) (ZMHU); KOREA: 6 males, 2 females, S Korea (CIS).
Diagnosis. P. ochreipennis (Fig. 13) is somewhat smaller than P. flavomacula, wingspan 18–21 mm. Externally it differs from P. flavomacula by pale yellow ground colour (pale lilaceous grey in P. flavomacula), usually irrorated with ochreous brown, by shape of antemedial line, not edged outsides by whitish line as in flavomacula and postmedial line, which is excurved from costa to vein 6 (obliquely straight in P. flavomacula), angled there and thence evenly incurved, not edged outsides with whitish like in P. flavomacula. In male genitalia P. ochreipennis (Fig. 24) differs from P. flavomacula in having much massive and developed costal process of valva, shorter (2/3 length of valva) and more acute caudal extension of sacculus and differently shaped juxta, longer, thinner and not apically bifurcate (like in P. flavomacula) uncus. Structure of vesica is similar to P. flavomacula, but it bearing three diverticula; large cornuti are more massive that in P. flavomacula. In female genitalia, P. ochreipennis (Fig. 34) differs from P. flavomacula by presence of antevaginal plate, wider and much shorter ductus bursa, presence of sclerotized patch in caudal part of bursae and by shape of bursae.
Distribution and biology. (Fig. 43). Manchurian, nemoral. Far East (Amur, S Khabarovsk and Primorye terr.), China, Korea, Japan (Sugi 1982; Kononenko 1990, 2005; Kononenko et al. 1998; Kononenko & Han 2007). Mesophilous species, occurs sympatric with preceding species in similar biotopes. The moth flies from mid June to end of July. The larva and its foodplants are unknown.
Notes. The species is reported from China for the first time.
description: Published as part of Kononenko, Vladimir S., Han, Hui-Lin, Yu, Alexej & V, Ато, 2010, A review of the Eastern Palaearctic genera Paragona Staudinger, 1892 and Paragabara Hampson, 1926 with description of two new species and a new genus (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Aventiinae, Hypeninae), pp. 51-68 in Zootaxa 2679 on page 59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.199269