Prays cingulata Yu et Li 2004
Creators: name: Cong, Peixin
name: Li, Houhun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Yponomeutidae
Prays
Prays cingulata

description: Prays cingulata Yu et Li, 2004
(Figs. 3, 4, 8)
Prays cingulata Yu et Li, 2004: 15. TL: China (Guizhou). TD: NKU.
Type material. CHINA: Holotype ♂, Guizhou Province: Linjiang [28.30°N, 106.20°E], Xishui, 500 m, 3.VI.2000, coll. Yanli Du, genitalia slide No. YHL00244. Paratypes: 3 ♂, 3 ♀, same locality as holotype, 390–550 m, 28.V–28.IX.2000, coll. Yanli Du and Haili Yu, genitalia slide Nos. YHL00245♂, YHL00272♀, YHL00313♀, YHL00419♂.
Other material. Chongqing: 15 ♂, 1 ♀, Beipo, Mt. Jinfo, 800–1100 m, 4–7.VIII.2012, 28.V–6.VI.2013, 13.IX.2014, coll. Xiaofei Yang and Tengteng Liu, genitalia slide Nos. CPX15137 ♂, CPX15169♂, CPX15170♂, CPX15198♀, CPX15212♂, CPX15220♂, CPX16015♂; Guizhou Province: 1 ♂, Chishui, Zunyi, 390 m, 27.V.2000, coll. Yanli Du, genitalia slide No. CPX15203; 1 ♂, Linjiang, Xishui, 500 m, 3.VI.2000, coll. Yanli Du; 1 ♀, Jinding, Mt. Fanjing, 2100 m, 31.VII.2001, coll. Houhun Li and Xinpu Wang, genitalia slide No. JQ 08055; 2 ♂, Dashahe, Daozhen, 600 m, 29.V.2004, coll. Shulian Hao, genitalia slide Nos. CPX15150, XYL03660; 1 ♂, Dashahe, Daozhen, 1350 m, 26.VIII.2004, coll. Yunli Xiao, genitalia slide No. JQ 08177; 3 ♂, 10 ♀, Xiasi Village, Kuankuoshui Nature Reserves, Suiyang, 840 m, 6–9.VI.2010, coll. Linlin Yang, genitalia slide Nos. CPX15167 ♂, CPX15204♀, YLL10288♂, YLL10289♀; 1 ♀, Kuankuoshui Nature Reserves, Suiyang, 1500 m, 13.VIII.2010, coll. Linlin Yang; 1 ♂, Fenshuiling, Kuankuoshui Nature Reserves, Suiyang, 17.VIII.2010, coll. Linlin Yang, genitalia slide No. CPX15197; 1 ♂, Baishao Village, Qinggangtang, Suiyang, 800 m, 12.VIII.2010, coll. Xicui Du, genitalia slide No. CPX15209; Yunnan Province: 2 ♂, Xiaoheishan Nature Reserves, Longling, 1974 m, 17.VII.2013, coll. Shurong Liu et al., genitalia slide No. CPX14075.
Diagnosis. Adult (Fig. 8) with wingspan 10.0–12.0 mm. This species is close to P. lambda Moriuti, 1977 in genital characters. Prays cingulata can be distinguished in the male genitalia by the obliquely outwards socius without any tooth, the tegumen produced into a pair of free thorn-shaped processes medially, and the saccus gradually widened distally (Fig. 3); in the female genitalia by the ductus bursae sclerotized in anterior 2/3 (Fig. 4). In P. lambda, the socius is curved obliquely inwards and has many tiny teeth near ventral margin on the inner surface, the tegumen is concave medially and forms a semicircular process laterally on the anterior margin, and the saccus is parallel laterally in the male genitalia (Moriuti, 1977: Plate XXIII, fig. 255); and the ductus bursae is membranous in the female genitalia (Moriuti, 1977: Plate XLVIII, fig. 407).
Distribution. China (Chongqing, Guizhou, Yunnan).
description: Published as part of Cong, Peixin & Li, Houhun, 2017, Review of the genus Prays Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Praydidae) from China, with descriptions of twelve new species, pp. 201-227 in Zootaxa 4263 (2) on pages 209-210, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4263.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/573055