Craniophora draudti Han & Kononenko 2010, sp. n.
Creators: name: Han, H. L.
name: Kononenko, V. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Craniophora
Craniophora draudti

description: Craniophora draudti, sp. n.   
(Figs. 11, 17, 24)  
 Type material. Holotype: male, with label: CHINA: “ Tapaishan in Tsinling, Sued Shensi [Shensi = Shaanxi Prov.]. Ca. 1700 m 20.v.1936 (H. Höne), genit. prep. ZFMK 1869. Paratypes: China, 14 males, same locality, 1700–3000m, 16, 17, 27.vi, 10, 11.vii, 12.ix 1936 (H. Höne), genit. prep. ZFMK 1998. The holotype and paratypes are deposited in Zoological Research Institute and Museum Alexander Koenig (Germany, Bonn [ZFMK]).   
 Diagnosis. The new species externally is similar to its allied C. simillima (Fig. 13) and C. tapaishana (Fig. 12) (all three are similar to C. pacifica (Figs. 14, 15), but differs by somewhat smaller size, brownish tint of ground colour, brownish hindwing and a somewhat paler area between reniform and postmedial line; the latter formed by single line, its inner line indistinct, while in related species it is regularly formed by double line. In male genitalia (Fig. 17) it differs by somewhat shorter and more massive uncus, and structure of vesica, which is more similar to C. tapaishana (Figs. 21, 22), but shorter, more slender, arch-like curved, without broadening at arch; like in C. tapaishana it is armed by patch of cornuti in arch, but the patch is formed smaller and the cornuti are not so strong as in C. tapaishana; the distal part of vesica in C. draudti is broadened and finely scobinated, while it is not much extended and covered by minute spine-like cornuti in C. tapaishana. Two other species, C. simillima (Fig. 23) and C. pacifica (fig. 25) also differ well by structure of vesica.   
 Description. Adult (Fig. 11, 17). Wingspan 30–32 mm. Ground colour of head, thorax and forewing grey, with somewhat brownish tint; wing pattern dark brownish-grey; basal line indistinct, marked in costal area; basal streak diffused; antemedial line formed by thin line on diffused brownish grey background, not double as in related species; orbicular rounded, bordered outside by thin black line, with brownish-grey filling inside; black mark between orbicular and costa (like in related species) absent; antemedial line similarly to related species curved from costa outward, then inward and again outward; from inner part below Cu-trunk antemedial outlined by whitish dash, more distinct than in related species; part of wing outward from antemedial with dark brownish-grey suffusion, darker in cell between orbicular and reniform and around vein Cu2 and paler between reniform and postmedial line; reniform indistinct, marked by black from inner side; subterminal line traceable, double, less distinct than in related species; subtornal streak whitish, indistinct; subterminal line double, indistinct; cilia grey with whitish between veins. Hindwing uniformly grayish, somewhat darker toward edge, cilia grey, basally yellowish-grey.   
 Male genitalia (Fig. 24). Genitalia armature somewhat smaller compared with related species; uncus straight, basally curved, somewhat broader than in C. tapaishana and C. simillima; tegumen thin, scaphium heavily sclerotised, juxta broad, bilobate; vinculum broad; valva weakly sclerotised, lobe-like, slightly broader basally than in related species; aedeagus slightly curved; vesica tubular, about 2 times longer than aedeagus but shorter and somewhat more slender than in C. tapaishana, arch-like curved, arch; not broadened as in C. tapaishana; armed with patch of cornuti distally of beyong arch, cornuti much smaller, and weaker and form smaller field of cornuti than in C. tapaishana; the apical part of vesica in C. draudti is broadened and finely scobinated; in C. tapaishana it is only slightly brroadened and covered with minute spine-like cornuti.   
 Female. Unknown.   
 Etymology. The species name is dedicated to Prof. M. Draudt.   
 Distribution. (Fig. 32). The species is known from the type locality, Tapaishan Mts.[= Taibaishan Mts.] in Shaanxi Prov. of China. It occurs there in sympatry with C. tapaishana and C. pacifica.
description: Published as part of Han, H. L. & Kononenko, V. S., 2010, New species of the genera Acronicta Ochsenheimer, 1816 and Craniophora Snellen, 1867 from China with notes on synonymy and checklist (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Acronictinae), pp. 48-68 in Zootaxa 2678 (1) on pages 62-63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2678.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5302352