Spilonota albicana (Motschulsky, 1866)

Choi, Seokhoon, Kim, Jeong-Nam, Bayarsaikhan, Ulziijargal, Jang, Chang Moon, Kim, Hanul, Nasu, Yoshitsugu & Bae, Yang-Seop, 2024, Taxonomic study of the genus Spilonota Stephens (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae: Eucosmini) with descriptions of two new species in Korea, Zootaxa 5418 (4), pp. 357-370 : 359-360

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5418.4.4
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scientific name	Spilonota albicana (Motschulsky, 1866)
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Spilonota albicana (Motschulsky, 1866) View in CoL

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Grapholitha albicana Motschulsky, 1866 , Bull. Soc. Nat . Moscou, 39(1): 199 ( Japan).

Description. Adult. Wingspan 14–16 mm; forewing ground color grayish white; basal area black mottled pattern; costa strigulae 1 to 6 light gray and 7 to 9 white, indicated by pair; strigulae located in basal and median fascia confluent with wing pattern, indistinct compared to terminal fascia; tornal blotch dark brown, with silver spot, subtriangular pattern, from dorsum 2/3 to tornus; apex dark brown; speculum ground color dark brown, inner and outer line of speculum color silver, line of speculum extended to tornus, with 3 to 5 small black inner spots; hindwing dark apricot; cilia dark apricot, bright apricot towards abdomen; abdomen dark brown.

Male genitalia. Uncus absent; socii conical, rounded apex; tuba analis membranous; tegumen strong; aedeagus 1/2 of the length from tegumen to vinculum, bends lightly, deciduous cornuti; vinculum small; caulis inverted trapezoid; valva long, tapering neck; basal opening about half width of valva, round rectangular shaped; sacculus hairy; cucullus subrectangular, setae moderately dense; one pollex on edge.

Female genitalia. Papillae anales with long and short hairs; lamella antevaginalis towering, medially concave, bifid peaks; colliculum long more than half of ductus bursae length; corpus bursae spherical; signa pair, horn-shaped, difference size.

Material examined [ Korea]. 1 ♂, Namhae-gun , 2. VI. 1994 (B.K. Byun), genitalia slide No. INU-13546 ; 1 ♂, Chuncheon-shi , Mt. Gubong, 8. VI. 1998 (S.M. Lee), genitalia slide No. INU-13547 ; 2 ♀, Namyangju-shi , Mt. Chukryeong, 20. VII. 1999 (Y.S. Bae, Kim & Kim), genitalia slide No. INU-13625, 13628 ; 1 ♀, Mt. Gwangdeog , 9. VII. 1997 (Y.S. Bae), genitalia slide No. INU-13626 .

Host plants. Prunus leveilleana , Prunus maximowiczii , Padus buergeriana [ Rosaceae ], Lyonia ovalifolia var. elliptic [ Ericaceae ] ( Nasu 2021).

Distribution. Korea (GN, GG, GW) ( Byun et al. 1998), China ( Zhang & Li 2005), Japan ( Nasu 2021), Russian Far East (Siberia) ( Kuznetzov 2001).

Remarks. This species was first recorded by Park (1983), who synonymized S. prognathana with S. albicana . In this paper, we consider S. prognathana as a separated species (see some detailed information in the “Remarks” subsection of the latter species).