Scobura evansi Devyatkin, 2004

Fan, Xiaoling, Chiba, Hideyuki & Wang, Min, 2010, The genus Scobura Elwes & Edwards, 1897 from China, with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), Zootaxa 2490, pp. 1-15 : 6-7

Scobura evansi Devyatkin, 2004

Figs. 7−8 , 37−41

Scobura coniata: Huang, 2001: 146 .

Scobura evansi Devyatkin, 2004: 61 . (Type locality: Fujian, China)

Diagnosis

Forewing length 16.5 mm. Forewing upperside cell spots conjoined, lower one larger and rounded; spot in space CuA1 largest, narrow, basally oblique, distally concave; without male stigma.

Male genitalia ( Figs. 37−41 ): Tegumen without socius; uncus thin and long; saccus short and broad; valva with ventrodistal process pointed distally; aedeagus with suprazonal sheath slightly shorter than subzonal sheath; juxta U-shaped and each arm bifurcated.

Material examined.

13, Nanling National Nature Reserve, Ruyuan, Guangdong, 22.VI.2003, M. Wang.

Distribution

China (Fujian, Guangdong).

Remarks

The species, recorded as S. coniata by Huang (2001), was described by Devyatkin in 2004 as a new species from Fujian. It is similar to S. lyso , but can be distinguished by having the cell spots conjoined and its peculiar horn-shaped juxta.

Figures

FIGURES 1 − 24. Adults of Scobura species: 1 − 4. S. cephaloides kinka Evans (Hainan), male (1 – 2), female (3 – 4); 5 – 6. S. isota (Swinhoe), male (Yunnan); 7 − 8. S. evansi Devyatkin, male (Guangdong); 9 – 12. S. coniata Hering (Guangdong), male (9 – 10), female (11, 12); 13 – 14. S. lyso (Evans), male (Zhejiang); 15 – 18. S. hainana (Gu & Wang) comb. nov. (Guangdong), male (15 − 16), female (17 − 18); 19 − 20. S. parawoolletti sp. nov., male (Hainan, holotype); 21 – 22. S. woolletti (Riley), male (Borneo); 23 − 24. S. stellata sp. nov., male (Guangdong, holotype). Odd number, upperside; even number, underside; scale bar, 10 mm.

FIGURES 37 − 41. Male genitalia of Scobura evansi Devyatkin (Guangdong). 37. ring, lateral view; 38. tegumen, dorsal view; 39. valva, inner view; 40. aedeagus; 41. juxta.