Lista menglaensis Wang, Chen & Wu, 2019

Wang, Mingqiang, Chen, Fuqiang, Zhu, Chaodong & Wu, Chunsheng, 2019, A supplemental description of the genus Lista Walker from China (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), with two new and a newly record species, Zoological Systematics 44 (1), pp. 84-88 : 86

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11865/zs.201903
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3518095B-189A-4088-A1DF-47E68C3B180B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4617106
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C98782-0555-8226-FF51-C1A0FBA3F1BC
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Lista menglaensis Wang, Chen & Wu
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Lista menglaensis Wang, Chen & Wu sp. nov. ( Figs 4 View Figures 1–4 , 8–9 View Figures 5–10 )

Diagnosis. The new species is similar to L. ficki ( Christoph, 1881) and L. monticola Yamanaka, 2000 by their similar uncus and valva. However, the new species has the gnathos with tridentate apex and the sacculus with two equal length spines, while the latter two have the gnathos with hooked apex and the sacculus with two unequal length spines.

Description. Adult male. Forewing length 8.5–9.0 mm (n = 2). Head yellow mixed with few fuscous scales; first and second segments of labial palpus with yellow scales on outer side and fuscous scales on inner side; third segment with pale brown scale; maxillary palpus pale yellow; antenna pale brown, scape extension golden, mixed with fuscous scales. Thorax mixed with pale brown and yellow scales. Forewing covered with yellow and fuscous scales, a black tuft located at apex of cell; postmedial fascia straight, yellow with black edge on inner side and brown edge on outer side, respectively, outer area covered with fuscous scales; cilia brown. Hindwing with similar pattern as forewing, but basal area mixed with dark-yellow and black scales, outer area covered with rufous scales.

Male genitalia. Uncus broad, suffused with dense setae. Gnathos with apex tridentate and base extended two strongly sclerotized spine-like processes laterally. Valva slowly broaden from base to apex, terminal margin truncated; a sclerotized plate from sacculus to center of valva, apex rounded; costa sclerotized; sacculus with two spine-like processes in middle, nearly same length. Juxta plate like, bifurcated at apex. Phallus slender, slightly curved in middle, with a sclerotized platelike cornutus in middle.

Female genitalia. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype ♂, China, Yunnan, Mengla (elev. 800 m), 7.VIII.2012, leg. R. L. Kitching (gen. slide no. Ep779). Paratype. ♂, China, Yunnan, Mengla (elev. 1200 m), 12.VII.2012, leg. R. L. Kitching (gen. slide no. Ep777) .

Distribution. China (Yunnan).

Etymology. The species is named after the type locality, Mengla, Yunnan Province.