Stenoloba pinratanai Behounek &amp; Kononenko 2010, sp. n.
Creators: name: Behounek, G.
name: Kononenko, V. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Stenoloba
Stenoloba pinratanai

description: <i>Stenoloba pinratanai</i> Behounek &amp; Kononenko sp. n. (Figs. 31, 32, 48, 71) <b>Type material.</b> Holotype: male, Thailand, Prov. Chiang Mai, Doi Phahompok, Mae Ai, 16–20 km NW, 1550– 2200 m, 20°07'N, 99°06'O, 14.–19.iii 2005 (T. Ihle leg.), genitalia slide GB5907 male. Paratypes: 1 female with same data and collector, genitalia slide GB7208 female, coll. Behounek; 2 males, with same data and collector, coll. of A. Becher and J. Stumpf. The holotype and one female paratype are in the collection of G. Behounek, to be deposited to ZSM, Munich; 2 male paratypes are in the collections of A. Becher and J. Stumpf. <b>Diagnosis.</b> The new species differs well from its congeners by triangular shape of forewing and crèmewhite ground color of forewing with distinct black and brownish wing pattern. It is close to <i>S. brunneola</i> in the male genitalia and comprised in the same species group with the former. <b>Description.</b> Adult (Figs. 31, 32). Wingspan: male, 30–32 mm, female 28 mm. Forewing shape triangular, costa straight, apex acute. Head and thorax brownish, with white scales; ground color of forewing creamy – white, elements of wing pattern black or brownish; basal and subbasal fields white, basal line marked by black spots; antemedial line black, twin, with white line between; medial field white; orbicular rounded, white, bordered by thin black line; medial line thin, black, less expressed in central part of wing; blackish-brown shadow liing in lower part of wing between antemedial line and postmedial line; reniform rather small, narrow, bordered by thin black line; postmedial line black, thin or indistinct; subbasal streak black. Prominent subterminal and terminal fields, white, the subterminal one with blackish suffusion; terminal line expressed as row of semilunar streaks; cilia whitish and blackish. Hindwing basally whitish, greyish towards terminal margin; discal spot traceable; terminal line blackish; cilia black and whitish, pale yellowish grey at base. <b>Male genitalia</b> (Fig. 48). Uncus short, basally massive; tegumen almost equal to vinculum in length; juxta shield-like; valva relatively short, with almost parallel costal and ventral margin; cucullus elongate, costa well developed, apex rectangular, covered with strong setae. Aedeagus with large massive spine-like cornutus in vesica. <b>Female genitalia</b> (Fig. 71). Ovipositor short, papillae anales rather small; anterior and posterior apophyses almost equal in length; antrum large, elongate, funnel-like, joined with cervix bursae by membranous patch; ductus bursae strongly sclerotized, bursa large, with strong sclerotized lateral extension. <b>Distribution.</b> (Fig. 86). North Thailand. The species is known only from its type-locality, where it occurs in mountain forest at elevations of 1550–2200 m. <b>Etymology.</b> The species name is dedicated to the entomologist Bro Amnuay Pinratana (Bro Philip) from Thailand.
description: Published as part of <i>Behounek, G. &amp; Kononenko, V. S., 2010, Fourteen new species of the genus Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892 from South East Asia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Bryophilinae), pp. 1-31 in Zootaxa 2679 (1)</i> on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2679.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5301975