Argyresthia (Argyresthia) kaoyaiensis Moriuti 1982
Creators: name: Liu, Tengteng
name: Wang, Shuxia
name: Li, Houhun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Yponomeutidae
Argyresthia
Argyresthia kaoyaiensis

description: 62. Argyresthia (Argyresthia) kaoyaiensis Moriuti, 1982
(Figs. 73, 83, 138, 194, 250, 296)
Argyresthia kaoyaiensis Moriuti, 1982: 1. TL: Thailand (Kao Yai). TD: UOPJ (Holotype and paratypes), EZAT (Paratype).
Description. Adult (Figs. 73, 83) wingspan 10.0̄ 12.5 mm.
Variation. The position of the dorsal black spot on the forewing is variable. A specimen from Thailand has the spot at the distal 1/5 of the cell beyond the black spot on the dorsum (Moriuti 1982a), which resembles that of specimens from Yunnan Province. Specimens from Hainan Province have the spot displaced inwards and immediately above the spot on the dorsum (Fig. 73).
Male genitalia: As in Figs. 138, 194 and 250.
Female genitalia: As in Fig. 296.
Material examined. Hainan Province: 16Ƌ (3 exs. without abdomen), 39♀ (4 exs. abdomen), 2 exs. (without metathorax and abdomen), Mt. Jianfengling (18.74°N, 108.87°E), Ledong County, 940 m, 4̄ 6.vi.2007, leg. Zhiwei Zhang and Weichun Li, slide nos. LTT12116 ♀, LTT12369Ƌ, LTT12370♀, LTT12380♀, LTT12484Ƌ, LTT12484W; 2♂, 4♀, Tianchi (18.74°N, 108.87°E), Mt. Jianfengling, Ledong County, 11, 12.vi.2010, leg. Bingbing Hu and Jin Zhang, slide nos. LTT12389♂, CPX14181♀, CPX14183♀; 1♀, Tianchi (18.74°N, 108.87°E), Mt. Jianfeng, Ledong County, 810 m, 30.iii.2008, leg. Bingbing Hu and Haiyan Bai; 2♀, Tianchi (18.74°N, 108.87°E), Mt. Jianfengling, Ledong County, 1050 m, 29̄ 30.vi.2010, leg. Yinghui Sun, Wei Guan and Tengteng Liu, slide no. LTT12394; 7♂, 8♀ (2 exs. without abdomen), Mt. Jianfengling (18.74°N, 108.87°E), Ledong County, 770 m, 14, 16̄ 17.vii.2014, leg. Peixin Cong, Linjie Liu and Sha Hu, slide no. LTT12619 ♂; 1♀, Mt. Diaoluo (18.67°N, 109.94°E), Lingshui County, 940 m, 31.v.2007, leg. Zhiwei Zhang and Weichun Li, slide no. LTT12117♀; 1♀, Nanxi reserve station (18.67°N, 109.93°E), Mt. Diaoluo, Lingshui County, 300 m, 10.viii.2008, leg. Bingbing Hu and Li Zhang, slide no. LTT12391♀; 3♂ (1 ex. without abdomen), 1♀, Mt. Yinggeling (19.07°N, 109.52°E), Baisha County, 620 m, 7.v, 14, 21.vi.2010, leg. Bingbing Hu and Jing Zhang, slide nos. LTT12378Ƌ, LTT12392♀; 1♀, Mt. Yinggeling (19.07°N, 109.52°E), Baisha County, 13.ix.2010, leg. Bingbing Hu, slide no. LTT12400♀; 1♂, Hongxin Village (19.07°N, 109.52°E), Yuanmen Town, Baisha County, 460 m, 1.vii.2014, Peixin Cong, Linjie Liu and Sha Hu; 1♂, Hongkan Forest Station (19.08°N, 109.50°E), Mt. Yinggeling, 508 m, 28.vi.2014, leg. Peixin Cong, Linjie Liu and Sha Hu; 2♂, 11♀ (1 ex. abdomen), Nancha (19.12°N, 109.06°E), Mt. Bawangling, Changjiang County, 600 m, 9̄ 10.vi.2007, leg. Zhiwei Zhang and Weichun Li, slide nos. LTT12373Ƌ, LTT12374♀; 1♂, Shuiman Town (18.89°N, 109.67°E), Wuzhishan City, 650 m, 17.v.2007, leg. Zhiwei Zhang and Weichun Li, slide no. LTT12393♂; 2♂, 5♀ (1 ex. without abdomen), Mt. Wuzhi Nature Reserves (18.54°N, 109.40°E), 740 m, 3̄4, 6̄ 7.vii.2014, leg. Peixin Cong, Linjie Liu and Sha Hu; 1♂, 1♀, Mt. Limu (19.17°N, 109.74°E), Qiongzhong County, 640 m, 1.v.2014, leg. Tengteng Liu, Wei Guan and Xuemei Hu, slide no. LTT12429♂; 1♂, 22♀, Mt. Limu forest park (19.17°N, 109.74°E), 607 m, 23, 25.vii.2014, leg. Peixin Cong, Linjie Liu and Sha Hu. Yunnan Province: 2Ƌ, 5♀ (2 exs. without abdomen), Nalahe (21.59°N, 101.58°E), Bubeng Town, Mengla County, 652 m, 12.vii.2013, leg. Shurong Liu, Yuqi Wang and Kaijian Teng, slide no. LTT12365♂; 2Ƌ, 5♀, Mt. Xiaoheishan (24.52°N, 98.84°E), Longling County, 1974 m, 19.vii.2013, leg. Shurong Liu, Yuqi Wang and Kaijian Teng, slide nos. LTT12363♀, LTT12364♂; 1♀, Taiyanghe National forest park (22.60°N, 101.11°E), Puer City, 1626 m, 6.vii.2013, leg. Shurong Liu, Yuqi Wang and Kaijian Teng, slide no. LTT12368. Fujian Province: 1♀, Daiyun Village (25.65°N, 118.24°E), Mt. Daiyun, Dehua County, 850 m, 14.ix.2002, leg. Xinpu Wang, slide no. LTT12383; 1♂, Mt. Tianzu (24.59°N, 117.93°E), Xiamen City, 220 m, 17.ix.2010, leg. Yinghui Sun and Jing Zhang. Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region: 1Ƌ, Mt. Pinglong, Shangsi City (22.05°N, 107.89°E), 510 m, 6.iv.2002, leg. Shulian Hao and Huaijun Xue, slide no. LTT12386. Guangdong Province: 1Ƌ, 1♀, Mt. He (22.64°N, 112.83°E), 17̄ 18.xii.2002, leg. Guilin Liu, slide nos. LTT12384 ♀, LTT12390 ♂; 1 ex. (without metathorax and abdomen), Mt. Dawuling Nature Reserves, Xinyi City, 1000 m, 10.viii.2003, leg. Dandan Zhang.
Distribution. China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan), Thailand.
Diagnosis. The diagnosis is given under A. (A.) dislocata Meyrick, 1914.
description: Published as part of Liu, Tengteng, Wang, Shuxia & Li, Houhun, 2017, Review of the genus Argyresthia Hübner, [1825] (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea: Argyresthiidae) from China, with descriptions of forty-three new species, pp. 1-135 in Zootaxa 4292 (1) on pages 71-72, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.827746