Meleonoma microbyrsa
Creators: name: Wang, Shuxia
name: Zhu, Xiaoju
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cosmopterigidae
Meleonoma
Meleonoma microbyrsa

description: Meleonoma microbyrsa (Wang, 2003)
(Fig. 43)
Cryptolechia microbyrsa Wang, 2003: 198.
Meleonoma microbyrsa: Wang et al. 2020: 382.
Type material examined. CHINA, Henan: Holotype ♂, Neixiang County (33.00°N, 111.80°E), 650 m, 11.VII.1998, leg. HH Li, slide No. W98260. Paratypes: 1♂, 10.VI.1998, other same data as holotype; 1♂, Mt. Jigong, Xinyang City, 700 m, 10.VI.1998, leg. HH Li.
Additional material: Fujian: 1♀, Guadun, Mt. Wuyi, 1100 m, 31.VII.2008, leg. WC Li et al.; 1♂ 1♀, Mt. Tianzhu, 220 m, 6−17.VIII.2010, leg. BB Hu & J Zhang; Guangxi: 1♂, Qingshan Forest Farm, Pingxiang City, 300 m, 22.VII.2011, leg. BB Hu; 1♂, 17.IV.2012, 1♂, 28. VI.2012, Shaoping Forest Farm, Pingxiang City, 280 m, leg. XF Yang; 1♂, Nandan County, Hechi City, 868 m, 10.VIII.2011, leg. SL Hao & YH Sun; Guizhou: 1♂, Taiping Town, Jiangkou, 516 m, 12.VII.2019, leg. MR Xing et al.; Hainan: 2♂, Duowenling, Lin’gao County, 207 m, 20.VIII.2017, leg. X Bai et al.; 2♂ 1♀, Mt. Wolong, Tunchang County, 126 m, 20–21. VI.2018, leg. P Liu et al.; 1♂ 1♀, 650 m, 7.IV.2008, 1♂, 1000 m, 9.IV.2008, Bawangling, Changjiang County, leg. BB Hu & HY Bai; 2♂ 3♀, Bawangling, Changjiang County, 161 m, 12–13.III.2016, leg. QY Wang et al.; 3♂ 1♀, Bawangling, Changjiang County, 146 m, 13–16.VIII.2017, leg. X Bai et al.; 1♀, Bawangling, Changjiang County, 193 m, 10. VI.2018, leg. P Liu et al.; 1♂, Datian, Dongfang City, 56 m, 4. VI.2018, leg. P Liu et al.; 1♂ 1♀, 3. VI.2010, 3♂ 15♀, 4−30.IX.2010, Yinggeling, 620 m, leg. BB Hu; 1♂, Hongkan, Yinggeling, 508 m, 26. VI.2014, leg. PX Cong et al.; 1♂, Hongkan, Yinggeling, 540 m, 16.III.2016, leg. QY Wang et al.; 1♂ 1♀, Yinggeling, 270 m, 8–9.XI.2016, leg. X Bai et al.; 1♀, Yinggezui, Yinggeling, 599 m, 30.VII.2017, leg. X Bai et al.; 1♂, Hongxin Village, Yuanmen Town, Baisha County, 430 m, 14.IV.2014, leg. TT Liu et al.; 1♂, Hongxin Village, Yuanmen Town, Baisha County, 460 m, 30. VI.2014, leg. PX Cong et al.; 1♀, 31.VII.2015, 3♂ 2♀, 18–20.III.2016, Hongxin Village, Yuanmen Town, Baisha County, 445 m, leg. QY Wang et al.; 2♂ 1♀, Mt. Wuzhi, 742 m, 4–6.VII.2014, leg. PX Cong et al.; 1♂, Forest Park, Mt. Diaoluo, Lingshui County, 922 m, 9.VII.2014, leg. PX Cong et al.; 1♂, 17.III.1980, Jianfengling; 2♂ 2♀, Jianfengling, Ledong County, 770 m, 13–17.VII.2014, leg. PX Cong et al., slide No. LiSR14049 ♀; 4♂, Tianchi, Jianfengling, Ledong County, 787 m, 8.III.2016, leg. QY Wang et al.; 1♂, Jianfeng Town, Ledong County, 40 m, 30.IV.2014, leg. TT Liu et al.; Hubei: 2♂, Taohuachong, Yingshan County, 635 m, 23−26. VI.2014, leg. W Guan & MQ Yang; Zhejiang: 1♀, Longxushan Village, Mt. Longxu, 778 m, 21.VIII.2014, leg. AH Yin et al.; 2♂, Longwantan, Yongjia County, 127 m, 20.VIII.2018, leg. S Yu et al.; 1♀, Jiufu Village, Mt. Longtang, 520 m, 25.VII.2014, leg. AH Yin et al.
Diagnosis. The species is similar to M. malacobyrsa (Meyrick, 1921), but can be differentiated in the male genitalia by the valva without a triangular denticle on the ventral margin, the sacculus with the dorsal lobe blunt apically, the ventral lobe rounded apically. In M. malacobyrsa, the valva has a triangular denticle on the ventral margin, the dorsal lobe of the sacculus is rounded apically, and the ventral lobe is pointed apically (Clarke 1963: 165, Fig. 2).
Description. Forewing length 5.5−7.5 mm.
Female genitalia (Fig. 43). Papillae anales rounded, densely covered with long setae. Apophyses anteriores about half length of apophyses posteriores. Eighth sternal plate concave at middle semicircularly on posterior margin, lined with long setae. Lamella antevaginalis ventrally sub-rectangular, concave at middle on posterior margin, straight on anterior margin, sclerotized laterally; dorsally banded, arched backward. Antrum narrower than ductus bursae. Ductus bursae membranous, gradually widened toward corpus bursae. Corpus bursae oval, spiculate posteriorly; signum sub-triangular, with several teeth, apical tooth largest.
Distribution. China (Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Henan, Hubei, Zhejiang).
Notes. The female of this species is described for the first time.
description: Published as part of Wang, Shuxia & Zhu, Xiaoju, 2020, Study of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914 (Lepidoptera: Autostichidae) from China, with descriptions of fifteen new species, pp. 331-357 in Zootaxa 4838 (3) on pages 352-356, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4404074