Assara korbi ( Caradja, 1910 )

Qi, Mu-Jie, Han, Hui-Lin, Park, Bo-Sun & Bae, Yang-Seop, 2014, Taxonomic study of the genus Assara Walker (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Phycitinae) in NE China, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 3814 (2), pp. 283-291 : 288-289

Assara korbi ( Caradja, 1910)

( Figs. 4 , 7, 11, 15)

Euzophera korbi Caradja, 1910 , Dt. Ent. Z. Iris 24: 130. TL: East Asia.

Assara korbi ( Caradja, 1910) : Roesler, 1973, 4: 155; Du, Li & Wang, 2002, 27(1): 15; Bae et al., 2008, 240; Li & Ren et al., 2009, 131; Li et al., 2012, 395.

Diagnosis ( Figs. 4 , 7, 11, 15). This species is similar to A. tumidula Du, Li & Wang, 2002 , both of them with a streak near the middle of dorsum in forewing, but it can be distinguished from A. tumidula by the following characters: forewing with two patches along costa, one near basal area, another near postmedial line; juxta with lateral lobes coniform; in female genitalia, papillae anales with length about 3 times as width; ductus bursae with 3/ 4 of anterior part enlarged. As for A. tumidula , forewing with one long patch along costa; juxta with lateral lobes finger-shaped; in female genitalia, papillae anales with length about 2 times as width; ductus bursae with 1/2 of anterior part enlarged.

Materials examined. 1 male, China, Prov.Jilin, Mt. Changbai, Helong, Jiashan, 756 m, 9-VII-2002 (Bae Y.S. & Park K.T.), Slide No. UIK-2715, (INU); 4 males, 1 female, China, Prov. Jilin, Xinan, 4-VI-2003 (Han H.L.), Slide No. UIK-2927–UIK-2931, (INU); 1 male, China, Prov. Jilin, Yongxin, 16-VIII-2003 (Han H.L.), Slide No. UIK-2783, (INU); 1 female, China, Prov. Heilongjiang, Mt. Maoershan, 30-VI-2010 (Han H.L.), Slide No. UIK- 2741.

Host plant. In Japan, the larvae feed on the gall of Schlechtendalia chinensis on the plant of Rhus javanica (Linnaeus) ; in Korea, feed on Quercus sp. ( Fagaceae ) ( Yoshiyasu 1991; Bae 2008).

Distribution. China (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Hubei, Tianjin, Henan, Zhejiang, Shaanxi, Gansu), Korea, Japan, Russia.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 4. Adults of Assara spp. 1. A. yanbianensis sp. n. 2. A. terebrella (Zincken, 1818). 3. A. hoeneella Roesler, 1965. 4. A. korbi (Caradja, 1910).