Ophthalmitis herbidaria Guenee 1858
Creators: name: Jiang, Nan
name: Xue, Dayong
name: Han, Hongxiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Geometridae
Ophthalmitis
Ophthalmitis herbidaria

description: Ophthalmitis herbidaria (Guenée, 1858)
Figs. 19–22, 50, 62, 74, 85, 96
Ophthalmodes herbidaria Guenée, 1858, in Boisduval & Guenée, Hist. nat. Insectes (Spec. gén. Lépid.), 9: 283. Syntypes 1ɗ, 1Ψ, India (central). (BMNH)
Ophthalmodes pulsaria Swinhoe, 1891, Trans. ent. Soc. Lond., 1891 (4): 489. Syntypes 3ɗ, India: Khasi Hills. (BMNH)
Boarmia herbidaria: Matsumura, 1931, 6000 Illust. Insects Japan-Empire: 875.
Boarmia (Ophthalmodes) herbidaria: Wehrli, 1943, in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde, 4 (Suppl.): 529.
Ophthalmitis herbidaria: Fletcher, 1979, in Nye (Ed.), Generic Names Moths World, 3: 146.
Diagnosis. This species is similar to O. irrorataria as follows: the postmedial lines on both wings are serrate and distinct; a broad dark band is present between the medial line and the outer margin of the discal spot on the hindwing. But it can be distinguished by the following characters: the discal spots of both wings are larger; greyish brown patches are usually present between the postmedial and submarginal lines, and between the submarginal and terminal lines; the areas inside the postmedial lines are not diffused with blackish brown scales; the terminal bands on the underside of both wings are broader; the cleft of the eighth sternite of the male abdomen is deeper and apical processes are pointed and more strongly sclerotized. The most distinct differences between these two species are in the male genitalia: the uncus is square distally, while it is rounded in O. irrorataria; the valva is relatively broader; the dorsal margin of the sacculus is long and curved, much broader than in O. irrorataria, but the marginal teeth are weaker relatively small; the ampulla is broader, terminating dorsally with a spur-like process; the sclerotized spines of the aedeagus are larger. In the female genitalia: the lamella postvaginalis is broader; the colliculum is longer and broader; the ductus bursae is shorter; the signum has fewer central teeth, and are positioned one side only.
Material examined. CHINA: Shaanxi: Liuba, Miaotaizi, 1350 m, 19.VII.1998, coll. Yao Jian, 1ɗ (IZCAS); Shanghai, VIII.1930, 1 ɗ (IZCAS); Zhejiang: Lin’an, West Tianmushan, 400 m, 26–27.VII.2003, coll. Xue Dayong, 1Ψ (IZCAS); Hubei: Zigui, Maoping, 80 m, 27.IV.1994, coll. Li Wenzhu, 1Ψ (IZCAS); Jiangxi: Jiulianshan, 11.VI.1975, coll. Zhang Baolin, 1Ψ (IZCAS); Hunan: Tongdao, 14.IV.1981, 1ɗ (IZCAS); Fujian: Nanping, 14.IV.1981, 1Ψ (IZCAS); Hainan: Jianfengling, 10.XI.1982, coll. Lin Youdong, 1Ψ (IZCAS); Sichuan: Emeishan, Qingyinge, 800–1000 m, 15.VII.1957, coll. Huang Keren, 1Ψ (IZCAS); Yunnan: Baoshan, Baihualing, 1520 m, 11–13.VIII.2007, coll. Wu Chunguang, 1ɗ (IZCAS).
Distribution. China (Shaanxi, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Hubei, Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian, Taiwan, Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan), India.
description: Published as part of Jiang, Nan, Xue, Dayong & Han, Hongxiang, 2011, A review of Ophthalmitis Fletcher, 1979 in China, with descriptions of four new species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Ennominae), pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 2735 on pages 11-12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201656