Haritalodes Warren, 1890

Sezen, Kazim, Aydin, Ebru Güney, Yildiz, Hasret Simge, Yildiz, Islam, Can, Feza, Ghanbari, Solmaz & Toprak, Umut, 2024, First record of the genus Haritalodes Warren, 1890 and H. derogata (Fabricius, 1775) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Spilomelinae) from Türkiye and its morphological and molecular identification, Zootaxa 5447 (1), pp. 124-132 : 126

Genus Haritalodes Warren, 1890

Type species: Botys multilinealis Guenée, 1854 , by original designation

Haritalodes derogata (Fabricius, 1775)

Phalaena derogata Fabricius, 1775: 641 , type locality: East India.

Syn.: Botys multilinealis Guenée, 1854: 337–338 , pl. 8 fig. 11, type locality: East India .

Botys otysalis Walker, 1859: 723–724 , type locality: Australia, Moreton Bay .

Notarcha obliqualis Lucas, 1898: 83 , type locality: Australia, Queensland, Brisbane .

Zebronia salomealis Walker, 1859: 476–477 , type locality: Sierra Leone.

Material examined. 3 ♂ 2 ♀, Üniversite Mahallesi, Ortahisar , Trabzon Province, 26.x.2023, leg. K. Sezen.

Diagnosis. Wingspan 22.2-26.0 mm. Labial palpus whitish, except for brownish scales at the end of first and second segments; third segment very short. Vertex covered with whitish scales and tinged with light brown scales at the medio-basal area. Patagium and tegula light yellow. Antenna filiform. Ground color of the wings light yellow; the marginal shade on the forewing is brown with a light yellow at the apex; basal area with a brown spot near posterior margin; antemedial line brown; antemedial area with a brown orbicular and subreniform spot the hindwing pattern is light brown ( Fig. 1 ). It is noteworthy indicating that the characteristics (both external above and genitalia below) were based on observations and published literature ( Tabesh et al. 2015; Karpun et al. 2022).

Male genitalia. Without uncus arms; the uncus is wide and both rounded smooth and indented at the apex; sacculus sclerotized; saccus U-shaped; coremata with densely long hairs ( Fig. 2A ); aedeagus with an elongated cornutus ( Fig. 2B ).

Female genitalia. Papillae analis simple; the anterior half of ductus bursae is ornamented with wrinkles; corpus bursae ovoid, membranous and with two semicircular and denticulate signa ( Fig. 3A, 3B ).

Distribution. Afrotropical ( Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion Island, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia), Australian ( Australia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tasmania), Eastern Palaearctic ( China, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan), Oriental (Andaman Island, Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, Guam, India, Indonesia, Java, Laos, Nepal, Nicobar Island, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Solomon Island, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam) ( Swezey 1946; Sidhu & Dhawan 1979; Odebiyi 1982; Uematsu 1986; Zaman & Karimullah 1987; Leraut 2005; Yamanaka 2008; Alamu et al. 2019); Iran ( Tabesh et al. 2015); Azerbaijan ( Gahramanova et al. 2020); Northeastern Caucasus, Russia ( Karpun et al. 2022; Ustjuzhanin et al. 2022), also Russian Far East (Amur) ( Slamka 2013); Micronesia (at the genus level) ( Ko et al. 2023) ( Fig. 4 ). This species, as imported has been recorded in the Netherlands ( Kuchlein & de Vos 1999; Muus & Corver 2024).

Remarks. The genus Haritalodes and H. derogata are reported from Türkiye for the first time.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Haritalodes derogata (Fabricius, 1775) adult female (scale bar: 1 cm).

FIGURE 2. Haritalodes derogata (Fabricius, 1775) male genitalia; (A) male genitalia general view, (B) aedeagus (scale bar:1 mm).

FIGURE 3. Haritalodes derogata (Fabricius, 1775) female genitalia; (A) female genitalia general view, (B) close-up of the anterior half of ductus bursae and corpus bursae showing the two semicircular and denticulate signa (scale bar: 1 mm). The single arrow indicates ornamented with wrinkles on the anterior half of ductus bursae, and the paired arrows indicate two semicircular and denticulate signa on corpus bursae.

FIGURE 4. The worldwide distribution map of Haritalodes derogata (Fabricius, 1775). The present distribution of H. derogata is shaded in gray; the region colored in green shows the presence of the genus in Micronesia and the region colored in red shows the presence of the species in Türkiye.