Hoploscopa aurantiacalis (Snellen, 1895)

Leger, Theo, Kehlmaier, Christian, Vairappan, Charles S. & Nuss, Matthias, 2020, Twenty-six new species of Hoploscopa (Lepidoptera, Crambidae) from South-East Asia revealed by morphology and DNA barcoding, ZooKeys 907, pp. 1-99 : 1

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.907.36563

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scientific name

Hoploscopa aurantiacalis (Snellen, 1895)
status

 

Hoploscopa aurantiacalis (Snellen, 1895) Figs 20 View Figures 19–33 , 102 View Figures 99–102

Material examined.

Lectotype: ♀, with labels: "Lecto- | type" [purple ringed]; "SYN- | TYPE" [blue ringed]; "F1893 | Java occ. | Pengaleng | 4000' F[ee]t" [handwritten, label squared with silver]; "Syncrotaula | aurantiacalis | Snellen | det. M. Shaffer, 1967" [handwritten]; "Lectotype | Eudorina | aurantiacalis | Snellen | det. M. Nuß” [handwritten]; “99.113.”; "♀ | Pyralidae | Brit[ish].Mus[eum]. | Slide N°. | 20246"; "GU Nr 659 | prep. M. Nuß”; " NHMUK 010923286" [barcode appended]. Deposited in NHMUK.

Diagnosis.

The median discoidal stigma, cubital and dorsal patches of the forewings form an oblique thin white streak. In female genitalia, the membranous pouch anterad from the antrum and the leaf-shaped sclerotisation of the corpus bursae allows to recognise this species. Male genitalia are not known.

Similar species.

No similar species known.

Description.

Head. Antennae dorsally brown. Proboscis pale yellow. Maxillary palpi brown, base pale yellow, inner side pale brown. Labial palpi brown, ventral base and inner side pale yellow.

Thorax (Fig. 20 View Figures 19–33 ). Collar white. Forewing length: 10 mm; forewing ground colour brown; basal longitudinal red fascia dorsally edged with pale yellow, running up to postmedian area; costal field reddish brown; median discoidal stigma v-shaped, white, forming oblique streak extending down to dorsal area; postmedian patch reddish brown speckled with white, with costal white blotch; postmedian line marked on costal half; postmedian suffusion white; subterminal line white; subterminal field broadly marked with reddish brown; margin brown, chequered with pale yellow. Hindwing pale brown. Fore- and midlegs brown to bronze. Hindlegs with femur bronze, tibia pale yellow speckled with bronze, tarsi bronze.

Male genitalia. Not known.

Female genitalia (N = 1) (Fig. 102 View Figures 99–102 ). Anterior apophyses bent ventrad at 1/3, without bump. Antrum sclerotisation short. Ductus bursae of medium length, with a rounded pouch at base, one loop on its middle. Corpus bursae rounded, extending lateral into a broad pouch, posterior half reticulated, anterior half with erect papillae, with leaf-shaped sclerotisation at corpus opening. Thorn long, flattened, straight, thinly indented.

Distribution.

Recorded from West Java (Indonesia), at an altitude of 1,300 m.

Remarks.

Nuss (1998) transferred this species from Eudorina to Hoploscopa and designated the lectotype.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Crambidae

Genus

Hoploscopa