Scrobipalpa flavinerva Bidzilya & Li, 2010

Li, Houhun & Bidzilya, Oleksiy, 2019, New species and new records of the genus Scrobipalpa Janse (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from China, ZooKeys 840, pp. 101-131 : 101

Scrobipalpa flavinerva Bidzilya & Li, 2010 Fig. 30

Scrobipalpa flavinerva Bidzilya & Li, 2010: 16, figs 15, 38.

Material examined.

3 ♂, 4 ♀, Erdaohu, Yanchi County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, 1397 m, 19,20.vii.2013, coll. Houhun Li et al. (gen. slide nos. L13070♀; YMQ13167♂; LLJ15203♀).

Female genitalia (Fig. 30). Papilla analis elongate, ovate, sparsely covered with hairs; apophyses posteriores five times longer than segment VIII; sternite VIII twice as long as broad, weakly narrowing apically, postgenital plates smooth with stronger sclerotized zone along medial margin, rounded posteromedially, posteriorly ca. 1/3 width of sternite VIII, then gradually narrowing towards apophyses anteriores, ventromedial depression prolonged, trapezoidal, densely covered with microtrichia, with distinct lateral folds, divided anteromedially to 1/3 length into lobes which not extend beyond anterior margin of sternite VIII; apophyses anteriores as long as sternite VIII, straight; ductus bursae narrow to moderate width, with distinct transition to subovate corpus bursae, colliculum narrow, ring-shaped; signum stout, basal plate large, distal hook curved under the right angle, narrow, acute.

Biology.

Host-plant unknown. Adults were collected from the end of June to middle August at an altitude of 1400 m.

Distribution.

China (Ningxia, Inner Mongolia), Mongolia, Russia (Buryatia) ( Bidzilya and Nupponen 2018).

Remarks.

This species was described from four males collected in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia in China. The female of this species is described for the first time based on specimens from Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

The female genitalia are very similar to those of S. parki ( Povolný, 1993) (see Povolný 2002, Pl. 75, fig. 789), but can be recognized by the shorter lobes of the ventromedial depression not extending beyond the anterior margin of sternite VIII, as in the latter species. An additional difference is the broader basal plate of the signum.