Araeopteron nebulosa Inoue 1965
Creators: name: Fibiger, Michael
name: Kononenko, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Araeopteron
Araeopteron nebulosa

description: <i>Araeopteron nebulosa</i> Inoue, 1965 (Figs. 5, 6, 15, 23, 28) <i>Araeopteron nebulosa</i> Inoue, 1965, <i>Tinea</i>, 7: 82, Pl. 15, fig. 4 A, 4 B (imago), text fig. 5 (male genitalia). <i>Araeopteron amoena</i> Inoue, 1958, partim. TL: Japan: Shizouka Pref., Odaru Spa. [BMNH, London]. Sugi, 1982, I: 806, II: 381, pl. 196, fig. 71 (imago); Poole, 1989: 116; Kononenko et al, 1998: 153, fig. 386 (imago); Kononenko &amp; Han, 2007: 31, Pl. 3, fig. 6 (male genitalia), Pl. 178, fig. 7 (female genitalia). <b>Material examined.</b> RUSSIA: Primorye territory: 1 male, Gorny (Gusevsky rudnik), 7 km N Zanadvorovka, 1.viii. 1984 (V. Kononenko); 4 males, 18 km SE Ussurijsk, Gornotayezhnoe, 24–27.viii. 1978, 15– 20.vii., 20.viii. 1994 (V. Kononenko), genit. preps 5961, 5862, 5871, 5873 M. Fibiger; 5 males, 5 females, same locality 15, 18.vii, 20.vii, 18.viii. 1994 (E. Beljaev &amp; M. Ponomarenko); 1 female, same locality, 1.vii. 1999 (S. Sinev); 1 male, Primorye terr., same locality, 250 m, 17–20.vii. 2002 (D. Nilsson &amp; K. Larsen), genit. prep. 5746 M. Fibiger, coll. D. Nilsson; 2 male, 1 female, Kedrovaya Pad nature reservation, 10–12.viii. 1988 (A. Lvovsky); 1 male, 2 female, 32 km W Ussurijsk, Krounovka, upper reach of Medveditsa river, 200 m, 30.v. 1984, 30.viii– 3.ix. 1998 (V. Kononenko), females genit. preps 5752, 5873 M. Fibiger; 1 male, Primorye terr., same locality 15–16.vii. 2002 (D. Nilsson &amp; K. Larsen), genit. prep. 5745 M. Fibiger; 2 male, 1 female, 22 km NE Nakhodka, 17–18.vii. 1999 (S. Sinev); 1 female, Mt. Sinegorka, 30 km NW Arsenjev, 4.viii. 1999 (V. Mironov). Colls. IBSS, ZISP, D. Nilsson. SOUTH KOREA: 1 male, Chuncheon, GW, 19.vi. 1991 (K.T. Park), genit. prep. 5183 KNA; 1 female, Gwang-Neunng, 9.vii. 1971, genit. prep. 5136 NIAST; 1 male, Prov. Kyeongri, Mi Soye 5.viii. 1996 (Bae, Paek, Lee, An); coll. CIS. CHINA: 1 male, 2 females, China, Prov. Henan, Tongbai, 300 m, 11–13.ix. 2000 (O. Karsholt &amp; Nankai Univ. Tianjin). Colls. ZMUC and M. Fibiger. <b>Diagnosis.</b> <i>A. nebulosa</i> is distinguished from other East Asiatic <i>Araeopteron</i> species by the pale grey ground colour of wings, with well marked dark pattern and a prominent black discal spot. The male genitalia differ by having a relatively long, subapically bent uncus and presence of three small pointed, triangular ampullae; vesica with long, broad sclerotised patch of small, narrow spines. The female differs by having a broad shuttlecock-shaped signum with moderately long spines. <b>Description.</b> Adult (Figs. 5, 6). Wingspan 11–13 mm. Antennae of both sexes without lamellae, with scales. Labial palps strongly upturned, 3 rd segment 2.5 times as long as 2 nd. Head small, eyes large. Head, patagia, thorax, and ground colour of forewing and hindwing grey, suffused with black-grey patches; hindwing with prominent black medial line; both wings with prominent discal spot. All crosslines present, often indistinct or interrupted; terminal line prominently indicated by black interveinal spots. Underside unicolorous grey, with pattern. Colour of abdomen basally and apically grey, medially dark grey. Male genitalia (Fig. 15). Uncus relatively long, subapically bend; membranous part of valva widest 2 / 3 from base, there smoothly angeled; sacculus regularly tapered, widest and rounded apically, there ventrally curved; clasper fused to sacculus, with three very small pointed, triangilar ampullae. Aedeagus medium long and narrow; vesica with long, broad sclerotised patch, comprising very many small, narrow spines. Female genitalia (Figs. 23, 28). Antrum vertically narrow, somewhat trapezoid, but with large lateral, posterior extensions; ductus bursae relatively short and narrow, membranous; posterior part of corpus bursae cylindric, anterior part ovoid, with broad shuttlecock-shaped signum, which has broad convexity with long spines in opposite direction. <b>Distribution</b> (Fig. 36). Russia, southern Primorye terr., South Korea, China (Prov. Henan), Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu). This species is reported for China for the first time. <i>Araeopteron kurokoi</i> Inoue, 1958 <i>Araeopteron kurokoi</i> Inoue, 1958, <i>Tinea</i>, 4: 230, (not illustrated). TL: Japan, Fukuoka Pref., Mt. Hikosan [BMNH, London]. Inoue, 1965: 83, Pl. 15, figs 5 A, 5 B (imago), text fig. 6 (male genitalia); Sugi, 1982, I: 806, II: 381, pl. 196, fig. 70 (imago); Poole, 1989: 115. <b>Diagnosis.</b> This species differs from other <i>Araeopteron</i> species in continental Asia by its prominent wing pattern, especially the presence of a large discal spot on the forewing. In the male genitalia the valve is broad, with the sacculus ending in an abruptly enlarged, comma-like process. <b>Distribution.</b> Japan: Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu. The species is not found in the continental Far East, but is listed here because of its occurrence in Japan, and possibly in South Korea.
description: Published as part of <i>Fibiger, Michael &amp; Kononenko, Vladimir, 2008, A revision of the subfamily Araeopteroninae Fibiger, 2005 in the Russian Far East and neighbouring countries with a description of four new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), pp. 39-54 in Zootaxa 1891</i> on pages 46-49, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184345
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