Etiella grisea Hampson, 1903

Liu, Hong-Xia & Li, Hou-Hun, 2014, Taxonomic study of the genus Etiella Zeller (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae) in China, Zoological Systematics 39 (1), pp. 149-153 : 151-153

Etiella grisea Hampson, 1903 New recorded to China ( Figs 3 , 6, 9 )

Etiella grisea Hampson, 1903: 33 .

Etiella drososcia Meyrick, 1929: 158 .

Etiella zinckenella (Treitschke) sensu Tams, 1935: 254 [misidentification].

Etiella grisea drososcia ( Meyrick, 1929) : Whalley, 1973: 13.

Material examined. 1♀, China, Mt Tianzhu (24º06'N, 117º55'E; alt. 220 m), Xiamen, Fujian Province, 1 August 2011, coll. Jin Zhang and Bing-Bing Hu ; 1♂, 1♀, Yongxing Farm, Lanyu Town (22º03'N, 121º32'E; alt. 20 m), Taiwan, 20 August 2006, coll. Hou-Hun Li and Xi-Cui Du.

Diagnosis. Adult ( Fig. 3 ) with wingspan 16–22 mm. This species can be distinguished from its congeners by the male genitalia with the left process about 1/2 length of the right one ( Fig. 6 ), and the helical ductus seminalis in the female genitalia ( Fig. 9 ).

Biology. This species was bred from the pods of Vigna (Leguminosae) and Crotalaria (Leguminosae) ( Whalley, 1973) .

Distribution. China (Fujian, Taiwan), Indonesia, Australia, New Guinea, Fiji.

Figures

Figs 1−4. Adults of Etiella spp. 1. E. brevis sp. nov., holotype, ♂. 2. Head of E. brevis sp. nov., paratype, ♀. 3. E. grisea Hampson, ♀. 4. E. walsinghamella Ragonot, ♂. Scale bars: 1, 3−4 = 2.0mm, 2 = 0.5mm.

Figs 5−9. Genitalia of Etiella spp. 5−7. Male. 8−9. Female. 5. Etiella brevis sp. nov., holotype, slide No. LHX11027. 6. E. grisea Hampson, slide No. LHX12338. 7. E. walsinghamella Ragonot, slide No. LHX12131. 8. E. brevis sp. nov., paratype, slide No. LHX12129. 9. E. grisea Hampson, slide No. LHX12339. Scale bars = 1.0mm.