Spilonota eremitana Moriuti 1972
Creators: name: Choi, Seokhoon
name: Kim, Jeong-Nam
name: Bayarsaikhan, Ulziijargal
name: Jang, Chang Moon
name: Kim, Hanul
name: Nasu, Yoshitsugu
name: Bae, Yang-Seop
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Tortricidae
Spilonota
Spilonota eremitana

description: Spilonota eremitana Moriuti, 1972
(Figs 1B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B)
Spilonota eremitana Moriuti, 1972, Kontyû, 40(4): 258 (Japan).
Description. Adult. Wingspan 13–18 mm; forewing ground color dark brown; overall gray speckled pattern similar thickness; costa strigulae gray, confluent with wing pattern, indistinct; speculum resembles wing pattern, difficult to distinguish, speculum ground color dark brown, inner and outer line of speculum color silver, line of speculum extended to tornus, with 3 to 5 small black inner spots but indistinct; hindwing dark brown, middle slightly lighter; cilia dark brown; abdomen dark brown.
Male genitalia. Uncus absent; socii tapering apically, bent inward apex; tuba analis membranous; tegumen strong; aedeagus 1/2 of length from tegumen to vinculum, bends lightly, deciduous cornuti; anellus about twice as wide as aedeagus; vinculum small; caulis inverted trapezoid; basal opening 1/3 width of valva, round isosceles triangle shaped; sacculus hairy; valva long, tapering neck; cucullus kidney-shaped, setae moderately dense; one pollex on edge.
Female genitalia. Papillae anales with long and short hairs; lamella antevaginalis towering, medially concaved, bifid peaks, slightly raised at both ends; colliculum long more than half of ductus bursae length; corpus bursae spherical; signa pair, small, equal size.
Material examined [Korea]. 1 ♂, Mt. Odae, 26. VI. 1989 (K. T. Park), genitalia slide No. INU-13576; 1 ♂, Taebaek-shi, Mt. Taebaek, 12. VI. 1999 (Bae, Lee & Ahn), genitalia slide No. INU-13578; 1 ♂, Namyangju-shi, Gwangrung, 7. VIII. 1986 (K. T. Park, M.K. Ko), genitalia slide No. INU-13579; 1 ♀, Namyangju-shi, Gwangrung, 13. VIII. 1986 (K. T. Park, M.K. Ko), genitalia slide No. INU-13580; 2 ♀, Gyeonggi Prov., Mt. Gwangduk, 20. VII. 1996 (Bae, Paek, Lee, Ahn & Jeon), genitalia slide No. INU-13582, INU-13592, 1 ♀, Inchen-shi, Is. Youngheung, 14. VIII. 1999 (Paek, Kim & Kim), genitalia slide No. INU-13593; 1 ♂, Inje-gun, Mt. Maebong, 24. VI. 1999 (Paek, Lee, Kim & Kim), genitalia slide No. INU-13598; 1 ♀, Inje-gun, Mt. Maebong, 24. VI. 1999 (Paek, Lee, Kim & Kim), genitalia slide No. INU-13599; 1 ♂, Gyeonggi Prov., Mt. Cheonma, 12. IX. 1995 (Bae & Paek), genitalia slide No. INU-13613; 1 ♂, Gyeonggi Prov., Mt. Gwangduk, 20. VII. 1996 (Bae, Paek, Lee, Ahn & Jeon), genitalia slide No. INU-13615.
Host plant. Larix kaemferi [Pinaceae] (Nasu 2021).
Distribution. Korea (GW, GG, N) (Byun et al. 1998; Byun 2011), China (Zhang & Li 2005), Japan (Nasu 2021), Russian Far East (Kuznetzov 2001).
Remarks. The species was first recorded in Korea by Park (1983). The larvae gather a bundle of Larix kaempferi (Lamb.) Carrière new leaves and hinder their growth, causing damage to the tree (Shin et al. 1983).
description: Published as part of Choi, Seokhoon, Kim, Jeong-Nam, Bayarsaikhan, Ulziijargal, Jang, Chang Moon, Kim, Hanul, Nasu, Yoshitsugu & Bae, Yang-Seop, 2024, Taxonomic study of the genus Spilonota Stephens (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae: Eucosmini) with descriptions of two new species in Korea, pp. 357-370 in Zootaxa 5418 (4) on pages 361-362, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5418.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/10730648