Lophomilia polybapta Butler 1879
Creators: name: Kononenko, Vladimir
name: Behounek, Gottfried
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Lophomilia
Lophomilia polybapta

description: Lophomilia polybapta (Butler, 1879)
(Figs. 7, 8, 28, 43)
Egnasia polybapta Butler, 1879, Illustration typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the Brithish Museum 3: 66, Pl. 57: 7. Type-locality: Japan, Yokohama [Type (s) preserved in NHM, London]. Warren, 1913: 411 (Lophomilia); Inoue & Sugi 1958: 594; Sugi 1959: 152, pl. 103: 37; 1982: I: 880, II: 399, pl. 218: 26; Kononenko, Ahn & Ronkay 1998: 104, Nr. 249; Kononenko & Han 2007: 37, pl. 13: 3, pl. 185: 6, male and female genitalia (Lophomilia).
Material examined. RUSSIA: 1 male, Primorye terr., Chuguevsky distr., Shumny (S. Vasilenko leg.), coll. SZM IASE, Novosibirsk; 3 males, 1 female, Primorye terr., Pogranichy distr. 3 km N Barabash-Levada, 24.vi. 1987 (G.A. Grigoryev leg.), Coll. G.A. Grigoryev, St. Petersburg; 1 male, Primorye terr., Pogranichy distr., Mineralnoe, Coll. A. Salin, Tallinn; JAPAN: 1 male, Chiju am Fuji (Japan) vi. (H.Höne leg.), coll. ZFMK; 1 male Honshu, Hyogo Pref., Inagawa, Kawabe-gun, 34°57'N, 135°27'E, 1.vii.1981 (S. Kinoshita leg.), coll. GB; 1 male, Japan / Lophomilia polybapta, Sheljuzhko det. (coll. ZSM); 1 male, Honshu, Yamanashi Pref., Daibosatsu-toge, 1500 m, 35°41'N, 138°40'E, 25.viii.1996, (Y.Kishida leg.), coll. GB, genit. prep. 6520 male GB; NORTH KOREA: 4 males, 1 female, So Jong Sun, 40 km W Pyongyang, 18–19.vi.1985 (E. Palik leg.); 1 male, NW Sangjion, 5.ix.1985, (E. Palik leg.), coll. ZFMK; SOUTH KOREA: 2 males, coll. CIS and KNA, genit. prep. 249- 1 male, 249-2a female; CHINA: 1 female, Prov. Liaoning, Dai Lion, Zhuanh He, 23.vii.2007 (S. Long. leg.), prep. VK. Coll. NEFU.
Diagnosis. Lophomilia polybapta (Fig. 7, 8) can be recognized by the dark reddish-brown coloration of forewing with purplish tint, which is darker in the outer part, and by its characteristic wing pattern which is similar to L. flaviplaga and L. takao, but differs by absence of white bars at ante- and postmedial lines and the bright yellow patch. Antemedial line dark brown, distinct in dorsal part, diffused in costal part of wing, acutely angled basally towards costa; postmedian line arises at dorsum as a narrow, white, diffused line bordered inside by a dark brown suffusion which is more intensive in medial fields between ante- and postmedian lines and becomes distinct in costal area; orbicular expressed as small dot, reniform as distinct, small dot; subterminal line diffused; subterminal field with row of diffused streaks, surrounded by yellowishwhite margins in costal area. Wingspan 25–27 mm. In male genitalia (Fig. 28), the species differs from its allies by rather massive, sickle-like uncus; slightly wider shape of valva with costa separated from membrane in apical part of valva; thin, moderate and acute extension of sacculus; shape of clasper with sclerotized basal plate and shape of harpe, which is shorter than half of costa and rather weak. Aedeagus relatively thin, vesica large, bulbous, with apical diverticulum, without cornuti. In female genitalia (Fig. 43) ovipositor short, rather small, papillae anales moderate; apophyses small, thin, equally long; antrum small and relatively wide, ductus bursae very short, flattened, sclerotized; corpus bursae rounded, rather wide, with single signum in bottom part.
Distribution and biology (Fig. 52). Russian Far East, Primorye Terr., Korea, North China, Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima Is.). The species is reported from Russia for the first time. In the Far East L. polybapta was collected in Manchurian broad leaved forests with Quercus mongolica. Probably bivoltine, adults flying from late June to mid August. In Japan the larvae feed on oak (Quercus acutissima) and chestnut (Castanea crenata) (Miyata 1983; Yamamoto & Sugi 1978).
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 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274658