Lophomilia rustica Kononenko & Behounek, sp. n.
Creators: name: Kononenko, Vladimir
name: Behounek, Gottfried
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Lophomilia
Lophomilia rustica

description: Lophomilia rustica Kononenko & Behounek sp. n.
(Figs. 11, 12, 30, 45)
Type material. Holotype: CHINA, male, Kuling Kiangsu (H. Höne leg.), prep. 2086 ZFMK, coll. ZFMK. Paratypes: 1 female, Lungtang b. Nanking, Prov. Kiangsu 19.vi.1933 (H. Höne leg.), prep. 2087 ZFMK; 4 female, Hoengshan, Prov. Hunan, 9, 16.vi, 27.viii.1933 (H. Höne leg.); 5 female, 1 male with prep. 5959 Berio, Ost Tien-mu-shan, Prov. Chekiang 12.iv (male), 13.vi., 2.vi.1931 (H. Höne leg.); 1 male 1 female, Lungtang b. Nanking, Prov. Kiangsu, vi.1933 (H. Höne leg.), coll. ZFMK. The type series of L. rustica, including the holotype, is in Zoological Institute and Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, Germany.
Diagnosis. The new species belongs to the L. polybapta species group but can be recognized by its pointed forewing with a deep incision before the apex. The wing coloration, unlike related species, is uniform rusty reddish-brown, slightly paler in basal part; wing pattern expressed by dark lines. In the female genitalia the species differs by having a moderately wide, funnel-shaped antrum with a deep central incision.
Description. Adult (Figs. 11, 12). Wingspan 26–28 mm. Forewing with deep incision before pointed apex. Ground color of forewing uniform rusty reddish-brown; basal line hardly traceable. Antemedial line brown, more distinct in dorsal part of wing, weakly traceable and diffused in costal part; postmedial line arises on dorsum as black, oblique bar, narrowing to thin line beyond Cu1 and extending to costa, bordered inside by dark brown suffusion, and outside by thin pale-brown line and brown suffusion; orbicular expressed as small black dot, reniform hardly traceable as pale spot; subterminal line diffuse, dentate, broken; terminal field with dark suffusion in apical part; cilia rusty-brown. Hindwing greyish-brown, slightly darker in terminal part, with weakly traceable diffused discal spot and blackish tornal spot; cilia yellowish-grey. Male genitalia (Fig. 30). Uncus relatively thin, sickle-like, curved; tegumen higher than vinculum; juxta three-lobed; valva moderately long, with parallel margins; transtilla weak; costa well developed, in apical part separated from membranous valva; editum well expressed; clasper-harpe complex lies in longitudinal position, fused with costa, clasper with elongate sclerotized basal plate, harpe not expressed; sacculus small, sclerotised, with moderate flattened, stick-like extension, longer than half of valva; apical part of valva membranous, rounded, lobe-like; aedeagus relatively thin, moderate, with well expressed coecum, vesica large, bulbous, with three wide diverticula, with small patch of cornuti. Female genitalia (Fig. 45). Ovipositor short, rather wide, papillae anales moderate, apophyses anteriores shorter than posterior ones, small, thin; antrum small, rather wide, funnel like; ductus bursae short, wide, flattened, sclerotized, in the region where it is joining with antrum membranous; corpus bursae rounded, elongate, with small signum in bottom part.
Distribution and biology. (Fig. 54). East and South China. Probably multivoltine, adults collected from April to end of August. The larva and foodplant are unknown.
Etymology. The name refers to the rusty reddish-brown coloration of the forewing.
description: Published as part of Kononenko, Vladimir & Behounek, Gottfried, 2009, A revision of the genus Lophomilia Warren, 1913 with description of four new species from East Asia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Hypeninae), pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 1989 on page 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274658