Orthocraspeda sordida Snellen, 1900

Wu, Jun & Han, Hui-Lin, 2023, New species and records of Paroxyplax Cai, 1984 (Lepidoptera: Limacodidae) and its allies from China, with a checklist of the treated genera, Zootaxa 5254 (3), pp. 383-397 : 391-392

Orthocraspeda sordida Snellen, 1900

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Orthocraspeda sordida Snellen, 1900 , Tijdschr. Ent. 43: 99. Type locality: “ Batavia (14 métres)” [Java]. Lectotype: male, in RMNH, designated by J. D. Holloway, 1986.

Orthocraspeda luticrista Tams, 1924 , J. nat. Hist. Soc. Siam 6: 280, pl. 17, fig. 7. Type locality: “ Bangkok ” [ Thailand]. Holotype: male, in NHMUK.

Material examined. 1 female, CHINA, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Jinghong City , Mengyang Town , 4-5.VIII.2018, leg. HL. Han, J. Wu & MR. Li, genit. prep. WuJ-188-2, coll. NEFU ; 1 male and 1 female, CHINA, Yunnan Province, Yuxi City, Yuanjiang County, Laohuqing , 29.XI.2020, leg. J. Wu, JJ. Fan, MR. Li & G. Fu, genit. prep. WuJ-496-1, WuJ-495-2, coll. NEFU .

Diagnosis. This species differs from O. furva ( Wileman, 1911) (Figs 27, 28, 32, 37), the only species of this genus known to occur in China previously, by the lack of the distinctive dark transverse fasciae on the forewing.

It also resembles in appearance the rare Bornean member O. bornesordida ( Holloway, 1986) , but in the male genitalia of O. sordida Snellen, 1900 (Fig. 31), the valva is more erect, the sacculus is more angled, and the costal process also shares distinctly different features.

Bionomics. The examined specimens were collected in southern Yunnan in August close to the tropical rainforest and in central Yunnan in November from a mango orchard.

Distribution. China (Yunnan), Thailand, northern Vietnam, western Malaysia, Sumatra, Java.

Remarks. This species is reported for the first time from China.