Wittonola latifasciata László, Ronkay & Ronkay, 2015, sp. n.
Creators: name: László, Gyula M.
name: Ronkay, Gábor
name: Ronkay, László
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nolidae
Wittonola
Wittonola latifasciata

description: Wittonola latifasciata sp. n.
(Plate 4, Figs 3–6; gen. figs 25, 26)
Holotype. Female, Cambodia, Mondolkiri Prov., Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area, between Seima and O’Rang, 12º12’12”N, 107º01’09”E, 300 m, 30.I.2006, leg. G. Csorba & G. Ronkay, slide No.: LGN 1734 (W 22330) (coll. MWM).
Paratypes. Cambodia: 46 specimens of both sexes, with same data as the holotype, slide Nos: LGN 1731 (W 22327), 1733 (W 22329) (males), LGN 1732 (W 22328) (female); 23 specimens of both sexes, Seima Biodiversity Conservation area, between Seima and O'Rang, 360 m, 12º15’44”'N, 107º03’49”'E, 27–29.I.2006, leg. G. Ronkay (coll. MWM); 1 male, with the same data (coll. HNHM). Indonesia, Sumatra: 2 females, Rimbo Panti, 250 m, 00º20’50”N, 100º04’07”E, 24– 25.II.2002, leg. K. Larsen & M. Fibiger, slide Nos: LGN 1638, LGN 1639 (coll. ZMUC).
Diagnosis. The diagnosis of W. latifasciata is given in detail in the diagnosis of the genus Wittonola.
Nanola László, Ronkay & Witt, 2010
(Plate 1, Figs 5–8, Plate 5, Figs 3–7; gen. figs 4–7, 31–34)
Nanola László, Ronkay & Witt, 2010, Esperiana 15: 38. Type-species: Nanola hluchyi László, Ronkay & Witt, 2010, by original designation.
PLATE IV. Adults of Hampsonola, Wittonola and Ctenane species.
Taxonomic notes. When the genus was described in the monographic work on the Nolinae fauna of Thailand (László et al. 2010), only the type species was considered as member of the genus, due to the restricted area of that study. The detailed analysis of the genital morphology of Meganola s.l. revealed the existence of a distinct phyletic lineage being associated with Meganola by the former authors. According to the recent investigations, the taxonomic content of Nanola has been extended remarkably, comprising more than a dozen of species. The hindwing venation of the Nanola species is “quadrifine”, with the veins M3+CuA1 are stalked.
Diagnosis. The main generic characters of this lineage are the relatively short, apically pointed uncus, the generally broadly opened, simple, rather narrow and apically rounded valva, the origin of harpe from the ventral margin of the valval plate as a direct continuation of sacculus, unlike in Meganola, where the harpe is arising more medially from the valval plate (this feature displays closer connections between Nanola and Manoba Walker, 1864), and the usually short, relatively thick, simple aedeagus with or without cornuti in the vesica.
The configuration of the female genitalia, at least in those taxa where the female is known, is also rather curious. The main diagnostic features are the extraordinarily thick, strongly sclerotized ductus bursae and the unusal (and very variable) shape of the signum (it is a large quadrangular plate in N. liaoningensis, a long, narrow, evenly arcuate transverse sclerotization in N. franzdanieli, horseshoe-shaped in N. patkosigna and a pair of scobinated rounded plates in N. lesarbena); or even fully reduced like in N. hluchyi). In spite of the rather large external diversity, all species are characterised by the above mentioned combination of genital characters, indicating their close relationship.
description: Published as part of László, Gyula M., Ronkay, Gábor & Ronkay, László, 2015, Contribution to the knowledge on the Palaearctic and Oriental taxa of the Meganola s. l. (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Nolidae, Nolinae) generic complex with descriptions of 4 new genera and 11 new species, pp. 251-296 in Zootaxa 4052 (2) on pages 279-281, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4052.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240598