Paratalanta pandalis Hubner 1825
Creators: name: Zhang, Dandan
name: Cai, Yanpeng
name: Li, Houhun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Paratalanta
Paratalanta pandalis

description: Paratalanta pandalis (Hübner, 1825)
(Figs. 8, 17, 24)
Epicorsia pandalis Hübner, 1825: 355. Type locality: Augsburg. Pyralis verbascalis Hübner, 1796: 23.
Botys thapsalis Treitschke, 1828: 314.
Botys oblitalis Duponchel, 1843: 396. Type locality: France, Seine-et-Marne, Chartrettes. Botys pandalis var. bergunensis Zeller, 1878: 90. Type locality: Ober-Albula in Graubünden. Botys jessica Butler, 1878: 58.
Microstega pandalis (Hübner, 1825): Meyrick, 1890: 450.
Paratalanta pandalis (Hübner, 1825): Kirpichnikova, 1986: 52.
Material examined. CHINA: 4 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, Mt. Wuling (40.60ºN, 117.47ºE), Xinglong County, Hebei Province, 800 m, 2.vii.2009, leg. Qing Jin, gen. slide no. CYP 11024 (♂); 6 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, Mt. Luya Reserve administration (38.65ºN, 112.02ºE), Ningwu County, Shanxi Province. 1450 m, 19 – 20.vii.2011, leg. Shulian Hao & Jiayu Liu, gen. slide no. CYP 12019 (♂), CYP 12020 (♀); 4 ♂♂, Xiyao Village, Ningwu County (38.65ºN, 112.00ºE), Shanxi Province, 1475 m, 21 – 22.vii.2011, leg. Shulian Hao & Jiayu Liu, gen. slide no. CYP 12014; 18 ♂♂, Erhezhuang, Pangquangou, Mt. Guandi (39.00ºN, 112.30ºE), Ningwu County, Shanxi Province, 1658 m, 27 – 30.vi.2011, leg. Shulian Hao & Jiayu Liu, gen. slide no. CYP 12015, CYP 12044; 5 ♂♂, Heshangmaozi, Benxi County (41.30ºN, 124.10ºE), Liaoning Province, 22 – 24.vi.2010, leg. Jiayu Liu & Yanpeng Cai; 6 ♂♂, 1 ♀, Mt. Tiecha, Benxi County (41.30ºN, 124.10ºE), Liaoning Province, 27 – 28.vi.2010, leg. Jiayu Liu & Yanpeng Cai, gen. slide no. CYP 11046 (♂), CYP 12026 (♂); 1 ♀, Haichao, Lu County (28.97ºN, 105.28ºE), Sichuan Province, 27.vii.1995, leg. Y.X. Zeng, gen. slide no. ZDD0202; 2 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, Daheba, Mayanghe County (28.57ºN, 108.18ºE), Guizhou Province, 430 m, 5 – 6.vi.2007, leg. Xicui Du, gen. slide no. AT08006 (♀), CYP 11049 (♀); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Lijiaba, Mayanghe County (28.57ºN, 108.18ºE), Guizhou Province, 700 m, 30.ix.2007, 1.x.2007, leg. Hui Zhen; 3 ♀♀, Yangdian County (33.92ºN, 106.42ºE), Gansu province, 27 – 31.v.1984, leg. Houhun Li, gen. slide no. DXC06530, ZDD02027; 8 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, Mt. Liupan Administration (35.60ºN, 106.10ºE), Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, 1700 m, 20.vi.2008, leg. Shulian Hao & Zhiwei Zhang, gen. slide no. CYP 11026 (♂), CYP 11035 (♀); 4 ♂♂, Hongxia Forest Farm, Mt. Liupan, Ningxia, 2600 m, 21.vi.2008, leg. Shulian Hao & Zhiwei Zhang, gen. slide no. CYP 11027; 1 ♂, Guamagou Forest Farm, Mt. Liupan, Ningxia, 2100 m, 29.vi.2008, leg. Shulian Hao & Zhiwei Zhang; 7 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀, Qiuqianjia Protection Station, Qiuqianjia Forest Farm, Mt. Liupan, Ningxia, 1700 m, 1 – 2.vii.2008, leg. Shulian Hao & Zhiwei Zhang, gen. slide no. AT08035 (♀), CYP 11028 (♂); 1 ♀, Dongshan Forest Farm, Mt. Liupan, Ningxia, 2050 m, 7.vii.2008, leg. Shulian Hao & Zhiwei Zhang.
Diagnosis. Adult (Fig. 8) with wingspan 20.0 – 30.5 mm. This species is characterized by the sella ventrally directed and apically far exceeding the ventral margin of the valva in the male genitalia (Fig. 17), and the narrow antrum with setae on the straight posterior margin, and the horn-shaped membranous sacs from between the antrum and the ductus bursae curved backward in the female genitalia (Fig. 24).
Host plants. Phyllostachys bambusoides Sieb. et Zucc., P. nigra var. henonis Stape, P. pubescens Mazel, P. nigra Munro (Kim & Lee, 1986).
Distribution. China (Gansu, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hebei, Hubei, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Ningxia, Shanxi, Sichuan), Korea, Japan, Russia (Ussuri), Europe.
Ecology. Caught in lowland from 430 m to 700 m, in mountains from 800 m to 2600 m. Flight period from end of May to early October.
description: Published as part of Zhang, Dandan, Cai, Yanpeng & Li, Houhun, 2014, Taxonomic review of the genus Paratalanta Meyrick, 1890 (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Pyraustinae) from China, with descriptions of two new species, pp. 118-132 in Zootaxa 3753 (2) on pages 128-129, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3753.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/227700