Glaucorhoe exilaria Han & Xue, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Wu, Chunguang
name: Han, Hongxiang
name: Xue, Dayong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Geometridae
Glaucorhoe
Glaucorhoe exilaria

description: Glaucorhoe exilaria Han & Xue, sp. nov.
Figs. 8–9.
Description. Body: Head, body and wing patterns same as the previous two species. Length of forewing: ɗ 13–14 mm, Ψ 14–15 mm.
Male genitalia (Figs. 15, 21, 25). Uncus long and stout, coniform, well sclerotized, ciliate. Valva with posterior ends of costal lobe and sacculus blunt, the former slightly shorter and distinctly narrower than the latter, slightly more than one half of sacculus in width; the long setae at the posterior end of costal lobe straight and pointed outwards; ventral margin of sacculus protrudent near base. Saccus short, with a tiny blunt process. Juxta, aedeagus as in redescription of the genus.
Female genitalia (Fig. 29). As in redescription of the genus.
Diagnosis. The wing shape and patterns of G. e x i l a r i a are close to those of G. unduliferaria and G. magaria, but it differs genitalically: the length of the saccus is less than 1/5 of the uncus in G. exilaria, shorter than in G. unduliferaria and G. m a g a r i a, in which the length of the saccus is circa 1/4 of the uncus; in G. exilaria, the middle width of the costal lobe is slightly more than one half of the sacculus, whereas in G. magaria, the middle width of the costal lobe is less than one half of the sacculus, and in G. unduliferaria both parts are almost the same width; G. e x i l a r i a also differs from G. unduliferaria and G. magaria in having a costal lobe shorter than the sacculus; G. e x i l a r i a is distinguishable from G. unduliferaria in that the long setae at the posterior end of costal lobe are straight and pointed outwards.
Material Examined. Holotype, ɗ, Shaanxi: Taibaishan Shangbaiyun, 1956. VII.24 (NWAFU). Paratypes (31ɗ22Ψ): IZCAS: Shaanxi: Taibaishan Shangbaiyun, 1954. VII.24, 1 ɗ; ibidem, 1956. VII.24, 1 ɗ1Ψ; Shaanxi: Taibaishan Dadian, 1956. VII.24–27, 3ɗ (ex. coll. NWAFU). NWAFU: Shaanxi: Taibaishan Shangbaiyun, 1956. VII.23–24, 3ɗ; Shaanxi: Taibaishan Dadian, 1956. VII.25–26, 2ɗ1Ψ; Shaanxi: Taibaishan Ping’anshi, 1956. VIII.1, 1Ψ. ZFMK: Tapaishan im Tsingling, Sued-Shensi (China), 1935. VII.23, H. Höne, 1ɗ; ibidem, 1935. VII.29, 1 ɗ; ibidem, Ca. 1700 m, 1936. V.19, 1 ɗ; ibidem, 1936. VII.12, 1 Ψ; ibidem, 1936. VII.25, 1 ɗ; ibidem, 1936. VIII.5-9, 7ɗ3Ψ; ibidem, 1936. VIII.12-13, 2ɗ4Ψ; ibidem, Ca. 3000 m, 1936. VI.15, 1 ɗ; ibidem, 1936. VIII.9-12, 2ɗ4Ψ; ibidem, 1936. VIII.19, 1 Ψ; Kansu mer., Tsing-schui, Liu-pin-schan, 2000 m, VII, 3ɗ2Ψ; Kansu orient, H wei si, Tsinlingschan montes occ., 1500 m, V, 1Ψ; Kansu mer. or., Lihsien, Peilingschan mer., 3000 m, VII, 1ɗ1Ψ; Minchow, Süd-West-Kansu, 2000-3000 m, 1933.VII, coll. Dr. Wehrli, 1ɗ1Ψ; Tauchow, Süd-West-Kansu, 2000-3000 m, 1933.VII, coll. Dr. Wehrli, 1ɗ; Niamushan, 30 km östl Tauchow, S-W-Kansu, 1933.VII, coll. Dr. Wehrli, 1Ψ.
Etymology. The name is derived from the Latin exilis (tiny).
Distribution. China (Shaanxi, Gansu).
description: Published as part of Wu, Chunguang, Han, Hongxiang & Xue, Dayong, 2008, A study on the genus Glaucorhoe, with descriptions of two new species from China (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae), pp. 53-63 in Zootaxa 1858 on pages 58-62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183621