Lophoptera solealis Qi & Yang, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Qi, Feng
name: Wang, Ke
name: Xue, Dayong
name: Yang, Ding
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Lophoptera
Lophoptera solealis

description: Lophoptera solealis Qi & Yang, sp. nov.
Figs. 84, 85, 123, 149, 177
Diagnosis. This new species is very close to L. hemithyris in the similar wings-pattern and alike male genitalia, but the gnathos, costa and saccus are distinctly different as described under previous species.
Description. Head. Frons greyish-brown. Male and female antennae filiform, brown. Vertex brown, with erected scales, extended forwards, pointed apically. Labial palpus greyish-brown, the second segment elongate, with a black oblique line at outer side. Thorax. Forewing length: male 9–11 mm, female 11–13 mm. Thorax darkbrown; patagia covered by dark grey scales. Legs dark-brown, ends of segments greyish-white; hind tibia with greyish-brown oblique lines at outer side, two grey hair-pencils present at opposite side of spurs. Wing-pattern. Forewing greyish-brown with basal half blackish-brown; antemedial line double, black; costa and veins heavy black anteriorly to antemedial line, with triangular black patch just anterior the first antemedial line on anal margin; medial line black and thin, slightly wavy; area between antemedial and medial lines yellowish-brown near anal margin; reniform ringed with black; postmedial line black and thin, double, curved outwards at R5; thin black line between postmedial and submarginal lines slightly wavy, with grey shadow anteriorly; submarginal line grey and wavy; terminal line black, interrupted by grey dots on vein ends; fringes blackish-brown basally, yellowish-brown terminally. Hindwing blackish-brown, with transparent basal half, veins black. Underside: forewing with basal half pale greyish-brown, terminal half dark greyish-brown, costal margin with several yellowish-brown dots; hindwing same as upper side. Abdomen. Dark-brown, every segment with a black spot centrally. Male genitalia. Uncus short and wide, apex beak-like. Central process of gnathos beak-like, longer than half length of uncus, with sharp tip. Valva long and narrow, apex hook-like, base of costa bulged. Juxta horseshoe shaped. Saccus as long needle-like process. Aedeagus short, with small sclerotized lobe inside ductus ejaculatorius near vesica. Female genitalia. Ovipositor short and wide, with thick hairs. Apophyses posteriores longer than apophyses anteriores. Lateral lobes small, triangular, with two small triangular sclerotized lobes anteriorly. Appendix bursae rounded, same size as corpus bursae. Corpus bursae rounded, with a small spinose signum.
Material examined. Holotype: male, CHINA, Hainan: Jianfengling, 16.VIII.1983, coll. Liu Yuanfu (IZCAS). Paratypes: Hainan: 2 males, 4 females, Jianfengling, 6–16.VI.1973, 16–28.VIII.1983, coll. Chen Yixin, Liang Jinglian, Liu Yuanfu (IZCAS).
Distribution. China (Hainan).
Etymology. The specific name is from the Latin word solea, which means the shoe of an animal, and postfix – alis, which means like. This refers to the horseshoe-like juxta of the male genitalia.
description: Published as part of Qi, Feng, Wang, Ke, Xue, Dayong & Yang, Ding, 2011, A taxonomic revision of the Stictopterinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Noctuidae) in China, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 2926 on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.205935