Liocrobyla kumatai Kuroko, 1982

Kim, Da-Som, Lee, Ji-Young & Byun, Bong-Kyu, 2023, Review of the genus Liocrobyla (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Ornixolinae) from Korea, with description of one newly-recorded species, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 115509-115509 : 115509

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e115509

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scientific name

Liocrobyla kumatai Kuroko, 1982
status

 

Liocrobyla kumatai Kuroko, 1982

Liocrobyla kumatai Kuroko, 1982: 185. TL: Japan. TD: ELKU (Holotype); EIHU, NHMUK (Paratypes).

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: female; otherCatalogNumbers: gen.slide no. HNUSEL-5528; Taxon: taxonID: HNU_DNA_1857; scientificNameID: Liocrobyla kumatai Kuroko , 1982; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Lepidoptera ; family: Gracillariidae ; genus: Liocrobyla ; Location : country: South Korea; stateProvince: Jeollabuk-do; county: Jeonju-si ; Event : year: 1977; month: 7; day: 13

Description

Redescription

Adult (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 D). Head white with a dark brown median line; frons white and smooth with a tuft of blackish-brown scales below scape; face white mixed with fuscous; maxillary palpus fuscous and apical ochrous; labial palpus white with a dorsal fuscous band on the first segment at median to apical and a minute ring on the subapical of the second segment; each antenna segment on dorsally white to basal and the rest of them brown and white ventrally; scape white with a lateral fuscous line. Thorax white; tegular pale ochrous and fuscous posteriorly; legs white with fuscous bands; fore coxa milky fuscous with white band on apical part; fore femur fuscous laterally; fore tibia blackish fuscous with two white spots on the basal and median part; fore tarsus with tree fuscous band and the last one most broad; middle femur fuscous laterally; middle tibia with two oblique narrow fuscous bands on 1/3 and 2/3 to base with fuscous apical; middle tarsus with four oblique fuscous bands. Wingspan 6.3-7.8 mm. Forewing ground colour fuscous and bronzy ochrous near apex; white streak on dorsal margin from basal to median with two black spots and most of the outer area tinged with pale ochrous; white costa-stria begin at 1/3 to base, stretched along costal margin over a half of forewing, the width of stria on costal margin almost same as the white streak on dorsal margin, rapidly curved downwards obliquely and reaching to wing fold; second white costa-stria at 2/3 to the base with black stria on inner side; more narrow and slender white stria near the apical part and downwards obliquely near the blackish spot of apex; a slightly elongated horizontally black spot on the apex with two white spots and the lower one near tornus longer than upper one. The hind-wing ground colour is greyish and the cilia are long.

Female genitalia (Fig. 2 View Figure 2 I). Papillae anales elongated caudally, sclerotised, long scales on the apex and stout setae densely on the inner side; apophyses posteriores stout and reduced. Ostium bursae wide at opening; antrum sclerotised and as long as 2/3 of apophyses anteriores. Ductus bursae reduced and membranous; ductus seminalis just below antrum with tiny and minute spinules, sclerotised lines originating from ductus bursae form a ring laterally and the sclerotised ring elongated as long as antrum. Corpus bursae are membranous and ovate.

Distribution

Korea, Japan, Russia.

Host plants

Lespedeza bicolor Turcz. [ Fabaceae ] in Korea (in this study). L. bicolor Turcz. [ Fabaceae ] in Japan ( De Prins and De Prins 2011, Ikeda 1995). Desmodium sp. [ Fabaceae ] in Russia ( Ermolaev 1987, De Prins and De Prins 2011).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Gracillariidae

Genus

Liocrobyla

Loc

Liocrobyla kumatai Kuroko, 1982

Kim, Da-Som, Lee, Ji-Young & Byun, Bong-Kyu 2023
2023
Loc

Liocrobyla kumatai

Kuroko 1982
1982