Endoclita phuthoensis Long, Chi & Grehan, 2024

Pham, Duy Long, Chi, Nguyen Minh, Grehan, John R., Khai, Tran Quang, Ignatev, Nikolai, Jones, Loren D., Mielke, Carlos G. C., Quang, Dao Ngoc & Yakovlev, Roman, 2024, Notes on Endoclita C. & R. Felder (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) feeding on Eucalyptus in Vietnam, with new records and a new species, Zootaxa 5453 (1), pp. 63-85 : 65-66

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5453.1.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:721FB81B-B372-41C6-9661-685AE7F834ED
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11233391
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03818796-DE5D-FFF6-9ACC-4792FE2A6524
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Endoclita phuthoensis Long, Chi & Grehan
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Endoclita phuthoensis Long, Chi & Grehan , sp. n.

( Figs 1a–d View FIGURE 1 , 5a, 6a, 7b, 8b View FIGURES 5–8 , 9a, c, f View FIGURE 9 , 10a–e View FIGURES 10–11 , 12a, c, e View FIGURE 12 , 20b, e View FIGURE 20 )

Holotype ♀ (with the following labels separated by forward slashes): / “ FPRC#51 , Host : Eucalyptus hybrid ( E. urophylla × E. grandis ), Location : Yen Lap district, Phu Tho province, Vietnam, Adult emergence: 16/10/2022 – 11/11/2022, Collector: Nguyen Minh Chi and Duy Long Pham/ Holotypus, Endoclita phuthoensis ♀, Long, Chi & Grehan. ” Deposited in the collection of FPRC.

Paratypes: 11 ♀: FPRC#53 , 54 , 60–62 , 65–68 , FPRC#72–73 , same site data as holotype ( FRPC#53 , 68 deposited in CUIC, rest in FPRC) . 9 ♀: FPRC#54 , 60–62 , 65–67 , FPRC#72–73 , same site as holotype ( FPRC) . 2 ♀: FRPC#53, 68, same site as holotype ( CUIC) .

Diagnosis. The forewing costal margin is almost liner, and this feature separates this species from all Endoclita with a lobe-like expansion near Sc1 ( Fig. 4a View FIGURE 4 ). Distinguished from linear costal margin species in eastern Asia by absence of a sub-triangular dark shaded patch over outer forewing discal region ( Fig. 4b View FIGURE 4 ), or by absence of forewing stigma in comparison to eastern Asian linear costal margin species E. auratus ( Fig. 3c View FIGURE 3 ), E. marginentotatus ( Fig. 3a–b View FIGURE 3 ) and E. undulifer ( Fig. 3d View FIGURE 3 ).