Scoparia annulata Li & Liu 2014
Creators: name: Li, Wei-Chun
name: Liu, Dong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Scoparia
Scoparia annulata

description: SCOPARIA ANNULATA LI SP. NOV.
(FIGS 1–2, 3I, 6B–C, 9C)
Diagnosis
See the diagnosis of S. globosa sp. nov.
Description
Adult (Fig. 3I): Forewing length 7.0– 8.5 mm. Frons and vertex pale brown mixed with white. Patagium, thorax, and tegula pale brown. Forewing suffused with blackish brown scales; antemedian line slightly oblique outwards; antemedian stigmata and distal discoidal stigma black, tinged with ochreous on inner side, ovate and 8-shaped, respectively; postmedian line meeting costa perpendicularly, angled outwards at about costal twofifths, dorsal about three-fifths parallel with termen; subterminal line curved inwards at middle; fringe grayish white, pale brown near base. Hindwing white, suffused pale brown near apex and termen; fringe concolorous with forewing. Abdomen pale brown.
Male genitalia (Fig. 6B, C): Uncus convex at middle, slightly concave near distal tip; distal half narrowed towards pointed apex. Gnathos slightly longer than uncus, tapering to hooked tip. Valva slightly narrow near base, broadening towards rounded apex; costa gently convex at about one-third. Sacculus slightly convex ventrobasally and concave ventrodistally. Juxta ovate, more or less concave near middle, distal onequarter narrowed towards blunted tip. Phallus nearly as long as valva; cornuti consisting of 8–14 small spines of different size.
Female genitalia (Fig. 9C): Papillae anales about twothirds as long as apophysis posterior. Tergite 8 about half as long as apophysis anterior. Antrum tubular, covered with dense granules. Colliculum concave and sclerotized anteriorly. Ductus bursae looped and forming small annular structure anterior to colliculum. Corpus bursae rounded, covered with dense tiny spines; signum stripe-like; appendix bursae small and rounded.
Holotype
Male: China, Sichuan, Hailuogou Glacier, near no. 1 glacier, ∼ 3000 m a.s.l., 14 August 2012, W. Li and L. Huang leg., prep. gen. no. LW12014.
Paratypes
Seventeen males and nineteen females, same locality as the holotype except dated 14–18 August 2012, prep. gen. nos LW12022, LW12026, LW12033, LW12047, LW12048, and LW12053, DNA nos L13052, L13053, L13054, L13055, L13056, and L13057 (Figs 1 and 2).
Distribution
China (Sichuan).
Etymology of specific epithet
From the Latin annulatus (= annular), referring to the ductus bursae looped before the colliculum and forming an annular structure in the female genitalia.
Remarks
The male genitalia of the new species varied in the phallus and cornuti: the phallus of some specimens with similar diameter and bearing a single group of cornuti (Fig. 6B); in contrast, the phallus of some individuals thin basally, then distinctively thickening towards distal tip, and cornuti including a second group composed of a thin and long spine (Fig. 6C). According to the wellsupported cluster (DNA nos LW13052, LW13053, LW13054, LW13055, LW13056, and LW13057) of phylogenetic results (Figs 1 and 2), the varied characters were demonstrated to intraspecific character variability.
description: Published as part of Li, Wei-Chun & Liu, Dong, 2014, DNA barcoding and morphology reveal exceptional species diversity of Scoparia (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) from the Hailuogou Glacier area, China, pp. 732-752 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171 (4) on pages 749-750, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12154, http://zenodo.org/record/5311621