Antivaleria ronkayorum Zhang & Wang 2024, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Fang, Weijun
name: Zhang, Yulong
name: Wang, Min
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Antivaleria
Antivaleria ronkayorum

description: Antivaleria ronkayorum Zhang & Wang sp. nov.
Materials
Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: recordedBy: Min Wang & Yining Chen; sex: male; occurrenceID: 9DE2A386-C052-5638-BBD4-FE47627DB287; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Zhejiang; county: Chun'an; locality: Tianping Village; verbatimElevation: 1150 m; Event: eventDate: 28-10 - 2023
Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: Min Wang & Yining Chen; sex: 3 males, 1 female; occurrenceID: 6C2F22F9-F02A-567B-BD07-581F6C114E97; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Zhejiang; county: Chun'an; verbatimElevation: 1050 m; Event: eventDate: 15-10 - 2023
Description
Male (Fig. 1 a). Wingspan 38-43 mm, fore-wing length 18-23 mm. Antennae weak bipectinate, head and thorax dark brown mixed with mossy green. Fore-wing broadly triangular, with pointed apex and corrugated outer margin, dorsum cilia reddish. Ground colour dark brown; wing pattern distinct, basal line twisted, forming a “ 3 ” shape. Reniform stigma large, green, terminally edged with yellow. The postmedial line is a fine, partly white-filled thin line, that is curved inwards around posterior edge of the cell. The inner half of marginal area broad and green bordered by the subterminal line at outer side. Hind-wing ground colour dark brown; discal spot faint; terminal area and cilia slightly darker than inner. Abdomen dark brown, distal segment covers in tufts.
Male genitalia (Fig. 2 a). Valva elongated and slightly curved with a pointed setose apex and broad basal part. Harpe is strongly sclerotised, curved at the base, apical part bifurcated, forming a “ C ” shape. Juxta calabash-shaped. the aedeagus with a large, sclerotised, multispinose dorsal carinal plate and bicuspical ventral carinal extension. Vesica membranous tubular, with a wedge-shaped cornutus.
Female. The description is limited to the single incomplete female specimen that was collected. Wingspan 45 mm, fore-wing length 21.5 mm. Antennae filiform, wing pattern close to male.
Female genitalia (Fig. 3). Anal papillae short and weak. Ostium bursae small, trapezoidal, ventral plate smoothly sclerotised, the dorsal plate is much smaller, consisting of two scobinate hemispheres. Ductus bursae is long, granulosely sclerotised, with a strong sclerotised lobe. Cervix bursae is large egg-shaped, wrinkled and apically sclerotised. Corpus bursae is oval, with two long, one slightly short and one much shorter signum-stripes.
Diagnosis
The new species resembles A. peregovitsi Ronkay et al., 2010, but differs in the postmedial line curved inwards around posterior edge of the cell; the uncus is broader, the cucullus is more foot-shaped with a more pointed apex, the dorsal section of juxta is more slender, differently shaped distal part of harpe and a larger dentated plate of the dorsal carina; the dorsal plate of ostium bursae is much smaller.
Etymology
The species name is dedicated to Drs. Gábor Ronkay and László Ronkay in honour of their marvellous work on Noctuidae.
Distribution
China, Zhejiang (Chun’an Fig. 4).
description: Published as part of Fang, Weijun, Zhang, Yulong & Wang, Min, 2024, A new species of winter noctuid moth (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Xyleninae) from Zhejiang, China, with a key to species of the genus, pp. e 127939 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e127939, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e127939