Promalactis sumatrana Lvovsky, 2000a

Kim, Sora, Heppner, John B. & Park, Kyu-Tek, 2017, Eight new species of the genus Promalactis (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from Indonesia, with a checklist of the genus, Journal of Natural History 51 (29 - 30), pp. 1671-1695 : 1693

Promalactis sumatrana Lvovsky, 2000a

Promalacti sumatrana Lvovsky, 2000a: 674 . TL: Dolok Merangir, Indonesia.

Diagnosis ( Figures 2m , 3m , 4j, 4 ja,b, 5e, 5ea,b)

This species is characterized from congeners by the wing pattern with the postmedial pale grey patch traversed from costal margin to posterior margin. The male genitalia are characterized by the circular uncus, the elongated club-shaped cucullus, the process of saccullus with dense hairs and the heavily sclerotized sacculus. The female genitalia are also characterized by the distinctly developed lamella postvaginalis.

Material examined

Two males and two females: one male, Northern Sumatra, 18 km, northeast Prapat , 8–14 November 1985, 1050 m, J .B. Heppner , & E .W. Diehl , gen . slide No . 9318, one male, Sumatra U ., 7 km southeast Parapat , 22 August 1992, 1400 m, J .B. Heppner , & E .W. Diehl ; two females, Sumatra U ., 43 km, southwest P. Siantar (HW4), 1200 m, 24–26 July 1992, J . B. Heppner , gen . slide No . 9303, 9304/S Kim.

Distribution

Indonesia (Sumatra: North, Northeast).

Figures

Figure 2. Adult of Promalactis. (a) Promalactis brevivalva; (b) Promalactis diazomatis sp. nov.; (c) Promalactis diehli; (d) Promalactis hamatella sp. nov.; (e) Promalactis ingenticula sp. nov.; (f) Promalactis laetusella sp. nov.; (g) Promalactis latifundus sp. nov.; (h) Promalactis merangirella; (i) Promalactis minutispina sp. nov.; (j) Promalactis mooatana sp. nov.; (k) Promalactis nataliae; (l) Promalactis roesleri; (m) Promalactis sumatrana; (n) Promalactis trigonilancis sp. nov.

Figure 3. Wing pattern of Promalactis. (a) Promalactis brevivalva; (b) Promalactis diazomatis sp. nov.; (c) Promalactis diehli; (d) Promalactis hamatella sp. nov.; (e) Promalactis ingenticula sp. nov.; (f) Promalactis laetusella sp. nov.; (g) Promalactis latifundus sp. nov.; (h) Promalactis merangirella; (i) Promalactis minutispina sp. nov.; (j) Promalactis mooatana sp. nov.; (k) Promalactis nataliae; (l) Promalactis roesleri; (m) Promalactis sumatrana; (n) Promalactis trigonilancis sp. nov.