Rhodostrophia anchotera Prout, 1935

Cui, Le, Xue, Dayong & Jiang, Nan, 2019, Description of two new species of Rhodostrophia Hübner, 1823 from China (Lepidoptera, Geometridae), Zootaxa 4563 (2), pp. 337-353 : 350

Rhodostrophia anchotera Prout, 1935

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Rhodostrophia anchotera Prout, 1935 , in Seitz , Macrolepid. World, 4 (Suppl.): 25, pl. 4: a. Holotype ♁, China: Sichuan, S of Muli, 8850 ft (NHM).

Diagnosis. The species is similar to R. acidaria Staudinger, 1892 , but can be distinguished by the following characters: the male hind tibia has three spurs, but it has four spurs in R. acidaria ; the antemedial line of the forewing is less sharply angled near the costa in R. anchotera than that in R. acidaria , the postmedial line of the hind wing is less sinuous ( Prout 1920 –1941).

Material examined. CHINA: Yunnan (ZFMK): 1 6, Li-kiang , 22.III.1935, coll. H. Höne. More material is available at ZFMK.

Distribution. China (Sichuan, Yunnan).

Figures

FIGURES 1–15. Adults of Rhodostrophia. 1–2. R. jacularia; 1. Male, Mongolia, 2. Female, Inner Mongolia, China; 3. R. grumaria, male, Tibet, China; 4. R. serraginaria, male, Xinjiang, China; 5. R. bicolor, male, Tibet, China; 6. R. yunnanaria, male, Yunnan, China; 7. R. similata, male, Yunnan, China; 8. R. reisseri sp. nov., male, holotype, Yunnan, China; 9. R. bisinuata bisinuata, female, Yunnan, China; 10. R. stueningi sp. nov., male, holotype, Yunnan, China; 11. R. philolaches, male, Yunnan, China; 12. R. tristrigalis, male, Sichuan, China; 13. R. anchotera, male, Yunnan, China; 14. R. olivacea, male, Yunnan, China; 15. R. pelloniaria, male, Tibet, China. Scale bar = 1 cm.