Stenoloba nora Kononenko & Ronkay, 2001

Han, H. L. & Kononenko, V. S., 2018, Twelve new species and four new records of Stenoloba Staudinger 1892 from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Bryophilinae), Zootaxa 4388 (3), pp. 301-327 : 312-313

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( Figs 24, 25 View FIGURES 16–30 , 47 View FIGURES 44–47 , 56 View FIGURES 48–57 )

Stenoloba nora Kononenko & Ronkay, 2001 , Insecta Koreana, 18(2):107, fig. 15 (Holotype: male, Taiwan, Prov. Taoyan, Ming Chyr Forest Recreation Area , 1160, coll. Kovacs, HNHM, Budapest).

References. Sohn & Tzuoo 2012: 243, Fig. 7 View FIGURES 1–15 .

Material examined. 2 males, 1 female, China, Prov. Yunnan, Lancang , 19.iv.2013, H.L. Han, C. Zhang leg, slide male HHL-6166-1, female HHL-6167-2 ; 2 males, Prov. Fujian, Mt. Wuyi, Sangang , 8–9.vii.2013, C. Zhang & X.F. Liu leg., coll. NEFU .

Diagnosis. Stenoloba nora ( Figs 24, 25 View FIGURES 16–30 ) externally, by wing pattern is somewhat similar to S. uncata ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 1–15 ), described below, but S nora is somewhat larger in size and differs by wider shape od forewing, darker basal and subbasal fields, distinct antemedial line and vertical position of the reniform. The postmedial line is defined by fine, partly interrupted grey line, curved more strongly around reniform, not touching its lower extremity; the shape of the darkened basal area is also somewhat different each other, slightly narrower in S. nora ; the antemedial line is sharply defined in S. nora , and the dark streak running to place of claviform is shorter; in S. uncata . The male genitalia of S. nora ( Fig. 47 View FIGURES 44–47 ) and S. uncata ( Fig. 42 View FIGURES 40–43 ) are conspicuously different: the first one has, comparing with those of S. uncata , not expressed scaphium; broader, apically less tapering juxta; shorter, distally more tapering valva without folk-like apex, like in S. uncata ; and shorter aedeagus. The female genitalia ( Fig. 56 View FIGURES 48–57 ) characterize by narrow papillae anales, moderate long cup-like antrum with lateral flaps (not expressed in other Stenoloba species), moderate long flattened sclerotised ductus bursae, slightly sclerotided caudal part of bursa and elongate ovoid shape of bursae.

Distribution. South and Southwest China (Prov. Yunnan, Prov. Fujian), Isl. Taiwan. Moths were collected in April and July. The species formerly was known from Taiwan Isl. Hereby it is first reported for the continental China. New data considerable extend the distribution pattern of S. nora .

Notes. The female genitalia described by and illustrate by Sohn & Tzuoo (2012).