Scythropiodes issikii Takahashi 1930
Creators: name: Wang, Qingyun
name: Li, Houhun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lecithoceridae
Scythropiodes
Scythropiodes issikii

description: Scythropiodes issikii (Takahashi, 1930)
Figs 15, 30, 42
Depressaria issikii Takahashi, 1930: 285. TL: Japan. Psecadia (Ethmia) issikii (Takahashi): Matsumura, 1931: 1084. Odites plocamopa Meyrick, 1935b: 84.
Odites perissopis Meyrick, 1936: 27.
Odites issikii (Takahashi): Okada, 1962: 86.
Scythropiodes issikii (Takahashi): Lvovsky, 1996: 650.
Diagnosis. Adult (Fig. 15) with wingspan 14.0–23.0 mm. This species is similar to S. citrantha (Meyrick, 1908) by having a similar forewing pattern. It can be separated by the valva narrowed gradually and the transtilla having a pair of semioval lateral lobes (Fig. 30). In S. citrantha, the valva is broadened semiovally from distal 1/3, and the transtilla has a pair of stout digitate lateral lobes (Clarke 1955: Pl. 230, Figs 2–2 a).
Material examined. CHINA: Shanxi Province: 5 Ƌ, 2 ♀, Lingchuan County, 900 m, 14–18.VII.2010, coll. Haiyan Bai and Lingling Yang; 1 Ƌ, Zhongtiaoshan Nature Reserves, 11.VII.2012, coll. Qiang Gao and Na Chen; 2 Ƌ, Yangcheng County, 594 m, 16.VII.2012, coll. Wei Guan and Xiuchun Wang; 1 ♀, Administration of Zhongtiaoshan Nature Reserves, 20.VII.2012, coll. Qiang Gao and Na Chen; Zhejiang Province: 2 Ƌ, 1 ♀, Mt. Tianmu, 400 m, 30.VII–1.VIII.2011, coll. Lingling Yang and Na Chen; 1 Ƌ, Mt. Tianmu, 335 m, 1.VII. 2 0 14, coll. Aihui Yin et al.; 2 Ƌ, Mt. Tianmu, 555 m, 3.VII.2014, coll. Aihui Yin et al.; 8 Ƌ, 3 ♀, Mt. Tianmu, 866 m, 15.VIII.2014, coll. Aihui Yin et al.; 1 Ƌ, Mt. Tianmu, 804 m, 11.VII.2014, coll. Aihui Yin et al.; 1 Ƌ, Mt. Tianmu, 789 m, 8.VIII.2014, coll. Aihui Yin et al.; 4 Ƌ, Mt. Tianmu, 866 m, 15.VIII.2014, coll. Aihui Yin et al.; 1 Ƌ, Mt. Longtang, 520 m, 29.VIII.2014, coll. Aihui Yin et al.; Anhui Province: 1 ♀, Huangshan City, 5.VIII.2004, coll. Jiasheng Xu and Jialiang Zhang; 1 Ƌ, 1 ♀, Mt. Jiuhua, 8.VIII.2004, coll. Jiasheng Xu and Jialiang Zhang; 1 ♀, Mt. Jiuhua, 9.VIII.2004, coll. Jiasheng Xu and Jialiang Zhang; Fujian Province: 1 Ƌ, Xiamen City, 1.VIII.2004, coll. Xiaofei Yang; Shandong Province: 6 Ƌ, Kunyushan forest farm, 19–21.VII.2009, coll. Qing Jin et al.; 8 Ƌ, 11 ♀, Shanghe County, VII–VIII.2012, coll. Jiahe Yan; 14 Ƌ, 12 ♀, Shanghe County, 10.VI–31.V.2013 (date of collecting larvae), Chinese ash (host plant), coll. Jiahe Yan; 6 Ƌ, 3 ♀, Shanghe County, 4–10.VI.2013 (date of collecting larvae), poplar (host plant), coll. Jiahe Yan; 1 ♀, Shanghe County, 5.VI.2013 (date of collecting larvae), cherry-apple tree (host plant), coll. Jiahe Yan; 1 ♀, Shanghe County, 9.VI.2013, willow (host plant), coll. Jiahe Yan; 1 Ƌ, Shanghe County, 11.VIII.2013 (date of collecting larvae), elm (host plant), coll. Jiahe Yan; 5 Ƌ, 4 ♀, Shanghe County, 30.VIII.2013, coll. Jiahe Yan; 8 Ƌ, 7 ♀, Shanghe County, 2.IX.2013, coll. Jiahe Yan; Henan Province: 7 Ƌ, 2 ♀, Tongbai County, 300 m, 11–14.IX.2000, coll. Houhun Li and Karsholt; 1 ♀, Yiyang County, 1000 m, 3.VIII.2006, coll. Denghui Kuang and Hui Zhen; 1 Ƌ, Lushi County, 1100 m, 6.VIII.2006, coll. Hui Zhen and Denghui Kuang; Hubei Province: 2 Ƌ, 1 ♀, Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County, 1000–1100 m, 10– 12.VII.1999, coll. Houhun Li et al.; 1 Ƌ, Hefeng County, 1260 m, 17.VII.1999, coll. Houhun Li et al.; 1 ♀, Lichuan City, 700 m, 30.VII.1999, coll. Houhun Li et al.; 1 Ƌ, Shennongjia City, 1200–1400 m, 17.VII.2003, coll. Shulian Hao; Hunan Province: 2 ♀, Tiaojiang County, 26.VII.2004, coll. Yunli Xiao; 1 Ƌ, Xinhua County, 3.VIII.2004, coll. Yunli Xiao; 1 Ƌ, Xinhua County, 8.VIII.2004, coll. Yunli Xiao; 1 Ƌ, Xinhua County, 10.VIII.2004, coll. Yunli Xiao; Hainan Province: 2 Ƌ, Baisha County, 430 m, 14–15.IV.2014, coll.Tengteng Liu et al.; Chongqing: 1 Ƌ, Mt. Simian, 1120 m, 17.VII.2010, coll. Xicui Du and Lifang Song; 1 Ƌ, Mt. Simian, 1000 m, 21.VII.2010, coll. Xicui Du and Lifang Song; Guizhou Province: 1 Ƌ, 1 ♀, Xishui County, 500 m, 3.VI.2000, coll. Yanli Du; Yunnan Province: 1 ♀, Mengla County, 620 m, 6.VIII.2010, coll. Yinhui Sun and Lixia Li; Gansu Province: 1 Ƌ, Wen County, 718 m, 18.VII.2005, coll. Haili Yu.
Host plants. Caprifoliaceae: Viburnum odoratissimum, Weigela coraeensis; Rosaceae: Malus pumila, Prunus persica, Pyrus ussuriensis, Rosa sp.; Rubiaceae: Gardenia jasminoides; Salicaceae: Populus nigra, Salix sp.; Smilacaceae: Smilax china; Ulmaceae: Ulmus parvifolia; Vitaceae: Vitis vinifera (Park & Wu 1997; Sakamaki 2013). Moriuti (1982) mentioned that this species rolled the leaves of host plants at its larval stage.
Distribution. China (Anhui, Beijing, Chongqing, Fujian, Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Korea, Japan, Russia.
description: Published as part of Wang, Qingyun & Li, Houhun, 2016, Review of the genus Scythropiodes Matsumura, 1931 (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae, Oditinae) from China, with a checklist of the world, pp. 301-329 in Zootaxa 4132 (3) on page 313, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4132.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258365