Leucoma ochripes ( Moore, 1879 )

Xie, Linzhe, Wang, Ming, Chen, Yusi & Wang, Houshuai, 2022, Review of the genus Leucoma Hübner, 1822 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) from China, with description of two new species, Zootaxa 5115 (3), pp. 361-380 : 364

Leucoma ochripes ( Moore, 1879)

( Figs 4 , 27 )

Stilpnotia ochripes Moore, 1879: 45 .

Caviria ochripes: Hampson, 1893: 490 ; Collenette, 1932: 57; Collenette, 1934b: 139.

Dendrophleps semihyalina Swinhoe, 1895:14.

Caragola ochripes: Swinhone, 1903: 378 .

Stilpnotia niveata Matsumura, 1933: 151 ; Chao, 1978: 54.

Euzora ochripes: Swinhoe, 1922: 460 ; Bryk, 1934: 123.

Leucoma ochripes: Holloway, 1999: 109 ; Chao, 2003: 287.

Himala ochripes : Bali et al., 2020: 357.

Diagnosis. The species is superficially similar to L. niveata ( Walker, 1865) , but can be differentiated by its frons without black hairs, forelegs orange yellow, midlegs and hindlegs grayish white, with orange yellow tarsi. The species is also similar to L. niveata and Ivela eshanensis ( Chao, 1983) in male genitalia, but can be distinguished from the latter by the right valva obviously incurved at the middle of ventral side.

Material examined. 1♂, Fengtongzhai Nature Reserve, Baoxing County, Ya’an City , Sichuan, 29–30.VI.2019 , leg S.Y. Huang. 1♂, Nanling National Nature Reserve, Ruyuan County, Shaoguan City , Guangdong, 31.V.2017, leg. M. Wang.

Distribution. China (Fujian, Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan), Myanmar, India, Malaysia.

Figures

FIGURES 1‒10. Adults. 1. L. salicis (male, SCAU); 2. L. costalis (male, SCAU); 3. L. sartus (male, SCAU); 4. L. ochripes (male, SCAU); 5–6. L. candida (5. male, SCAU; 6. female, SCAU); 7–8. L. chrysoscela (7. male, SCAU; 8. female, SCAU); 9‒10. L. parallela (9. male, SCAU; 10. female. SCAU). Scale bars = 10mm.

FIGURES 25–29. Male genitalia. 25. L. sericea; 26. L. melanoscela; 27. L. ochripes; 28. L. nyingchiensis sp. nov. (holotype); 29. L. sichuana sp. nov. (holotype).