Encolapta epichthonia Meyrick 1935
Creators: name: Yang, Meiqing
name: Li, Houhun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Encolapta
Encolapta epichthonia

description: Encolapta epichthonia (Meyrick, 1935)
(Figs 31, 45, 56)
Homoshelas epichthonia Meyrick, 1935: 71.
Homochelas epichthonia (Meyrick): Clarke, 1969 (7): 187. Ethmiopsis epichthonia (Meyrick): Ponomarenko, 1997: 42. Encolapta epichthonia (Meyrick): Ponomarenko, 2004: 70.
Material examined. CHINA: Tianjin: 2 ƋƋ, 45 ♀♀, Mt. Baxian, Ji County, 560 m, 12−16.vii.2005, leg. Houhun Li et al.; 1 ♀, Limutai, Ji County, 300 m, 1.vii.2007, leg. Houhun Li et al.; 6 ƋƋ, 1 ♀, Heishui River, Mt. Baxian, Ji County, 550 m, 8.vii.2009, leg. Zhipin Liang et al.; 7 ♀♀, Heishui River, Mt. Baxian, Ji County, 600 m, 11−28.vii.2010, leg. Yinghui Mou and Shurong Liu; 5 ♀♀, Heishui River, Mt. Baxian, Ji County, 800 m, 18−20.vii.2012, leg. Shurong Liu and Yanpeng Cai. Hebei Province: 1 Ƌ, Mt. Wuling, 800 m, 30.vi.2012, leg. Houhun Li and Shuxia Wang et al.; 5 ƋƋ, 5 ♀♀, Mt. Wuling, Xinglong County, 1000 m, 15−16.vi.2014, leg. Shurong Liu et al. Shanxi Province: 17 ƋƋ, 16 ♀♀, Xizhashui Village, Lingchuan County, Jincheng, 900 m, 13−18.vii.2010, leg. Haiyan Bai and Linlin Yang; 8 ƋƋ, 10 ♀♀, Dahe Forest, 1340 m, 12−15.vii.2012, leg. Qiang Gao and Na Chen; 4 ƋƋ, 8 ♀♀, Manghe National Nature Reserves, Yangcheng County, 594 m, 14−18.vii.2012, leg. Wei Guan and Xiuchun Wang; 3 ƋƋ, 21 ♀♀, Shuangdicun, Magedang Town, Lingchuan County, 773 m, 19−21.vii.2012, leg. Wei Guan and Xiuchun Wang; 5 ♀♀, Dahe Forest, Yicheng, Linfen, 1202 m, 24−25.vii.2013, leg. Shulian Hao and Mingjing Li; 2 ♀♀, Xixiakou, Lishan Nature Reserves, Qinshui, Jincheng, 1513 m, 27.vii.2013, leg. Shulian Hao and Mingjing Li; 1 ♀, Zhuweigou, Lishan Nature Reserves, Qinshui, Jincheng, 1589 m, 28.vii.2013, leg. Shulian Hao and Mingjing Li; 2 ♀♀, Manghe National Nature Reserves, Yangcheng, 3.viii.2013, leg. Shulian Hao and Yanjun Fan; 1 ♀, Manghe National Nature Reserves, Yangcheng, 595 m, 4.viii.2013, leg. Shulian Hao and Yanjun Fan; 1 Ƌ, Mt. Mian, Jiexiu, 1370 m, 26.vii.2013, leg. Tengteng Liu and Peixin Cong; 2 ƋƋ, 1 ♀, Mt. Mian, Jiexiu, 1370 m, 16−21.vii.2014, leg. Tengteng Liu, Meiqing Yang and Sihan Lu. Zhejiang Province: 1 Ƌ, Qianjiangyuan, Mt. Tianmu, 866 m, 12−15.viii.2014, leg. Aihui Yin, Qingyun Wang and Suran Li; 1 Ƌ, Laoan, Mt. Tianmu, 555 m, 19.viii.2014, leg. Aihui Yin, Qingyun Wang and Suran Li, genitalia slide no. YMQ15213; 1 Ƌ, 1 ♀, Pinggang, Mt. Longxu, 754 m, 23.vii.2014, leg. Aihui Yin, Qingyun Wang and Suran Li, genitalia slide no. YMQ 15241m; 3 ƋƋ, 1 ♀, Jiufucun, Mt. Longtang, 520 m, 28−30.viii.2014, leg. Aihui Yin, Qingyun Wang and Suran Li, genitalia slide nos. YMQ 15216m, YMQ 15217m, YMQ15218f, YMQ 15245 m. Shandong Province: 1 ♀, Zhongshan Temple, Mt. Meng, Linyi, 27.vii.2009, leg. Qing Jin et al. Henan Province: 1 ♀, Shaancun, Shibanyan, Linzhou, 500 m, 20−22.vii.2006, leg. Yingdang Ren; 1 Ƌ, 1 ♀, Shibanyan, Linzhou, 550 m, 21−22.vii.2006, leg. Hui Zhen and Denghui Kuang; 1 ♀, Mt. Guan, Huixian, 550 m, 26.vii.2006, leg. Hui Zhen and Denghui Kuang; 3 ƋƋ, 7 ♀♀, Mt. Wangwu, Jiyuan, 800 m, 28−30.vii.2006, leg. Hui Zhen and Denghui Kuang; 1 Ƌ, 4 ♀♀, Mt. Wangwu, Jiyuan, 600 m, 28−30.vii.2006, leg. Yingdang Ren; 1 Ƌ, 1 ♀, Mt. Huaguo, Yiyang, 1000 m, 3.viii.2006, leg. Hui Zhen and Denghui Kuang; 7 ƋƋ, Mt. Huaguo, Yiyang, 800 m, 19−20.vii.2007, leg. Yingdang Ren; 1 Ƌ, 2 ♀♀, Shenlingzhai, Luoning, 800 m, 21.vii.2007, leg. Yingdang Ren; 1 Ƌ, 4 ♀♀, Huangshian, Xixia, 600 m, 10.vii.2009, leg. Yingdang Ren; 3 ♀♀, Xiuwu Forest, Mt. Yuntai, Jiaozuo, 1028 m, 12–14.vii.2014, leg. Peixin Cong, Sha Hu and Linjie Liu. Shaanxi Province: 1 ♀, Chengcheng, 1000 m, 9.viii.1993, leg. Houhun Li.
Diagnosis. Adult (Fig. 31) with wingspan 18.0−23.0 mm. This species resembles E. marginans (Li et Zheng, 1998) in appearance. Encolapta epichthonia can be separated by the large body size, in the male genitalia by the valva not protruded at base on the ventral margin, and the aedeagus rounded at apex (Fig. 45), and in the female genitalia by the papillae anales obviouly narrowed posteriorly (Fig. 56). In E. marginans, the body size is much smaller (wingspan 11.0−16.0 mm); the valva is roundly protruded at base on the ventral margin and the aedeagus is truncate at apex in the male genitalia (Fig. 44); and the papillae anales are quadrate in the female genitalia (Fig. 55).
Distribution. China (Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Taiwan, Tianjin, Zhejiang).
description: Published as part of Yang, Meiqing & Li, Houhun, 2016, Review of the genus Encolapta Meyrick, 1913 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae: Chelariini) from China, with descriptions of six new species, pp. 201-227 in Zootaxa 4193 (2) on page 224, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4193.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/166869