Oreta trispinuligera Chen 1985
Creators: name: Song, Wenhui
name: Xue, Dayong
name: Han, Hongxiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Drepanidae
Oreta
Oreta trispinuligera

description: Oreta trispinuligera Chen, 1985
Figs. 35–37, 84–85, 118, 147, 172
Oreta trispinuligera Chen, 1985, Entomotaxonomia, 7 (4): 278, fig. 2, pl.1: 3. Holotype 3, China: Hubei, Shennongjia (SIECAS).
Oreta ancora Chu & Wang, 1987, Acta Ent. Sin., 30 (3): 300, fig. 12, pl.1: 25. Holotype 3, China: Hubei, Shennongjia (IZCAS). (nec Wilkinson, 1972)
Oreta ankyra Chu & Wang, 1991, Fauna Sinica, 3: 246, fig. 203, pl.10: 16. (nom. nov. for Oreta ancora Chu & Wang, 1987), syn. nov.
Material examined. CHINA, Hubei (SIECAS): Shennongjia, Hongping, 10.VIII.1983, coll. Jin Gentao and Liu Zuyao, 13 (Holotype); Shennongjia, Songbai, 11.VII.1983, coll. Jin Gentao and Liu Zuyao, 13 (Paratype). Henan (IZCAS): Longyuwan, 1000 m, 18.VIII.1997, coll. Ren Yingdang et al., 23. Shaanxi (IZCAS): Zhouzhi, Houzhenzi, 1300 m, 16.VIII.2007, coll. Li Wenzhu, 13; Foping, Huoditang, 1550 m, 19.VII.2007, 8.VII.2008, coll. Li Wenzhu, 33; Foping, Longcaoping, 1200–1256 m, 3.VII.2008, coll. Bai Ming et al., 33. Gansu (IZCAS): Kangxian, Qinghe Linchang, 1400 m, 7–9.VII.1999, coll. He Tongli et al., 531Ƥ; Wenxian, Qiujiaba, 2350 m, 21.VII.1999, coll. Wang Hongjian, 13; Wenxian, Tielou, 1450 m, 24.VII.1999, coll. Zhu Chaodong, 13. Hubei (IZCAS): Shennongjia, Dajiuhu, 1800 m, 1.VIII.1981, coll. Han Yinheng, 13 (Holotype of O. ankyra); Shennongjia, 20.VII.1980, 1Ƥ; Xingshan, Longmenhe, 1300-1340 m, 20–21.VI.1993, coll. Huang Runzhi, 131Ƥ; same locality, 1300 m, 8.IX.1994, coll. Song Shimei, 33. Fujian (IZCAS): Chong’an, Tongmu, 19.VIII.1979, coll. Wang Linyao, 13; Sangang, 4.IV.1983, coll. Wang Linyao, 13. Guangxi (IZCAS): Longsheng, 16.VI.1980, coll. Wang Linyao, 13. Chongqing (IZCAS): Wushan, Liziping, 1870 m, 4.VIII.1993, coll. Song Shimei, 13; Wanxian, Wang’erbao, 1200 m, 12.VIII.1993, coll. Song Shimei, 131Ƥ. Yunnan (IZCAS): Xiaomenglun, 6–7.V.1980, coll. Wang Linyao, 131Ƥ.
Diagnosis. O. trispinuligera resembles O. trispina in the deeply hooked fore wing apex, and distinctly protruding outer margin on both wings. However, the hollow under the apex is more deeply concave and the outer margin is more protruding in O. trispinuligera. The ground colour of O. trispinuligera is dark brown, but reddish brown and with two colour-forms in O. trispina. The male genitalia are close to those of O. sanguinea and O. liensis by almost oval uncus, not concave medially; the median process of the gnathos is slender and straight; the valva bears small pointed processes. However, in O. trispinuligera three pointed processes are present, with the posterior two longer, and the anterior one shorter; whereas in O. sanguinea and O. liensis, only the anterior two processes are distinct, with the anterior one much longer. In addition, the saccus is much broader in O. trispinuligera than in O. sanguinea and O. liensis. The female genitalia have a spinose signum in the corpus bursae.
Distribution. China (Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Fujian, Guangxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan).
Remarks. The species O. ankyra Chu & Wang, 1991, which was originally named as O. ancora Chu & Wang, 1987, a homonym of O. ancora Wilkinson 1972, was found to be identical to O. trispinuligera on both external and genital characters, and is therefore synonymized here. The anterior process on the valva of O. ankyra (Fig. 82) is present in the preparation shown, but since it overlaps the middle process on both left and right valvae, it is not clearly visible on the figure.
description: Published as part of Song, Wenhui, Xue, Dayong & Han, Hongxiang, 2012, Revision of Chinese Oretinae (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae), pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3445 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.212981