Pangrapta neoobscurata Hu & Yu & Wang 2017, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Hu, Yan-Qing
name: Yu, Yong
name: Wang, Min
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Pangrapta
Pangrapta neoobscurata

description: Pangrapta neoobscurata Hu, Yu & Wang sp. nov. (Figs 7–12)
Type material. Holotype: male, Shimentai, 153 m, Yingde, Guangdong Prov., 10–13.iv. 2017, Legs. Yanqing Hu & Yong Yu. Paratype: male, with the same date as the holotype. All specimens are deposited in Southwest University of Science and Technology (SWUST), Mianyang, China.
Diagnosis. The new species resembles externally P. obscurata with very similar wing pattern (Figs 4, 7, 10). However, the obvious identification features are as follows: the new species has a broader, blackish brown and y-shaped stripe (Fig. 7, blue circle) between postmedial and medial lines and a smaller, grayish black and triangular patch next to apical angle in forewing costa compared with P. obscurata, which has a slender, dark brown and y-shaped stripe and a bigger, grayish brown and triangular patch; in hind wing, P. obscurata has successively two dark brown lines, a dark brown shadow and a serrated and dark brown line from wing base to out margin (Fig. 4, red circle), but the new species has a blackish brown shadow, with a black and thick line inside. The difference configuration in male genitalia is remarkable: valva, sacculus and tegumen wider, harpe thick, vesica with one cornutus in new species, while valva, sacculus, tegumen and harpe slender, vesica with three cornuti in P. obscurata.
FIGURES 1–12. 1–3. P. suaveola. 1. Male adult; 2 & 3. Male genitalia. 4–6. P. obscurata. 4. Male adult; 5 & 6. Male genitalia. 7–12. P. neoobscurata sp. nov. 7. Male adult (Holotype); 8 & 9. Male genitalia (Holotype); 10. Male adult (Paratype); 11 & 12 Male genitalia (Paratype).
Description. Adult (Figs 7 & 10). Wingspan 28–29 mm. Head, thorax, collar and abdomen dark brown; antenna dark brown, filiform; labial palpus dark brown, stretched beyond the vertex. Forewing ground color dark brown, a blackish brown and y-shaped stripe between postmedial and medial lines, a grayish black and triangular patch next to apical angle in forewing costa; basal line blackish brown, just represented at front part; antemedial line blackish brown and wavy; medial line blackish brown and arc-shaped; postmedial line black and sinuated; subterminal line poorly discernible, wavy; terminal line blackish brown and thin; cilia blackish brown; reniform spot poorly obvious and black circle; orbicular spot undistinguished. Hind wing ground color grayish brown; medial line black, relatively broad; postmedial line blackish brown, similar shadow; terminal line bronze, wavy; a yellowish brown area outside of postmedial line; cilia blackish brown; discal spot brown. Male genitalia (Figs 8, 9, 11 & 12). Uncus thin, long, hookshaped apically, almost 3 times as long as harpe; tegumen more broad; valva long, broad distally; cucullus round; harpe close to cucullus margin, short, finger-shaped, round apically; sacculus broad, 3/5 time as long as valva; saccus small, Vshaped. Aedeagus short; vesica with a huge cornutus and two diverticula covered with many dots and spines. Female. Unknown.
Etymology. The specific name is derived from the name of P. obscurata.
Distribution. China (Guangdong).
description: Published as part of Hu, Yan-Qing, Yu, Yong & Wang, Min, 2017, A new species of Pangrapta Hübner, 1818 from China (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Pangraptinae) in Zootaxa 4362 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/1076394