Promacrochilo Bleszynski, 1962

Chen, Fu-Qiang & Wu, Chun-Sheng, 2014, Taxonomic review of the subfamily Schoenobiinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) from China, Zoological Systematics 39 (2), pp. 163-208 : 203-204

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3.12 Promacrochilo Bleszynski, 1962 ( Figs 12, 115, 121, 125)

Promacrochilo Bleszynski, 1962 . Coridon (A), 3: 3. Type species: Chilo ambiguellus Snellen, 1890 , by original designation (replacement name for Macrochilo Hampson, 1896 ).

Macrochilo Hampson, 1895 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1895: 950. Type species: Chilo ambiguellus Snellen, 1890 , by original designation (a junior homonym of Macrochilo Hübner, 1816 ).

Diagnosis. The genus is distinguished from other genera by vein R 5 shortly stalked with R 2+3+4.

Description. Head with frons protruded; labial palpi porrect, covered with coarse scales; maxillary palpi expanded; patagia of prothorax with long tuft.

Wings ( Fig. 12). Forewing elongate, apex pointed; R 1 nearby upper angle of cell, close to R 2; R 2 to R 5 stalked, R 5 separated firstly, then R 2; M 1 from discocellulares, close to R 5; M 2 and M 3 from lower angle of cell; Cu 1 and Cu 2 before lower angle of cell. Hindwing with Sc+R 1 and Rs stalked, from upper angle of cell as M 1; M 2 and M 3 from lower angle of cell; Cu 1 and Cu 2 before lower angle of cell.

Male genitalia. Uncus near triangular, covered with setae dorsally; gnathos semicircular, apex suffused with minute spines; tegumen broad, with sclerotized dorsal ridge reversed Y-shaped; valva broad, a sclerotized process present at sacculus; vinculum broad; saccus round; coremata present; juxta plate-like, sclerotized; aedeagus strong, vesica with minute spinules, manica with a tuft of coarse spines; ductus ejaculatorius from the terminal of aedeagus.

Female genitalia. Anal papillae slender, covered with setae; apophyses anterioris and posterioris slender; ductus bursae membranous, much longer than corpus bursae; corpus bursae round.

Distribution. Oriental Region.

Remarks. The genus comprises only one species, distributed in China and south Asia.

References

Bleszynski, S. 1962. Studies on the Crambidae. Part 34. Miscellaneous Notes. Coridon (A), 3: 1 - 3.

Hampson, G. F. 1895. On the classification of the Schoenobiinae and Crambinae, two subfamilies of moths of the family Pyralidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1895: 897 - 974.

Hampson, G. F. 1896. The fauna of British India, including Sri Lanka and Burma. Moths, 4. Taylor and Francis, London. 594 pp.

Snellen, P. C. T. 1890. A catalogue of the Pyralidina of Sikkim collected by Henry J. Elwes and the late Otto Moller, Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1890: 557 - 647.