Paratalanta cultralis amurensis ( Romanoff, 1887 )

Zhang, Dandan, Cai, Yanpeng & Li, Houhun, 2014, Taxonomic review of the genus Paratalanta Meyrick, 1890 (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Pyraustinae) from China, with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 3753 (2), pp. 118-132 : 128

Paratalanta cultralis amurensis ( Romanoff, 1887)

( Figs. 6, 7 , 16 , 23 )

Botys cultralis var. amurensis Romanoff, 1887: 30 . Type locality: Russia, Amur, Starikova. Paratalanta amurensis ( Romanoff, 1887) : Hampson, 1899: 251.

Paratalanta cultralis amurensis ( Romanoff, 1887) : Toll & Wojtusiak, 1957: 287.

Material examined. CHINA: 1 ♂, Mt. Wuling (40.60ºN, 117.47ºE), Xinglong County, Hebei Province, 800 m, 25.vii.2011, leg. Houhun Li & Yanpeng Cai, gen. slide no. CYP 12017; 2 ♂♂, Xiyao Village (38.65ºN, 112.00ºE), Ningwu County, Shanxi Province, 1475 m, 21.vii.2011, leg. Shulian Hao & Jiayu Liu, gen. slide no. CYP 12030; 1 ♀, Laotudingzi, Huanren County (41.20ºN, 125.30ºE), Liaoning Province, 8.vii.2009, leg. Weichun Li & Jiayu Liu, gen. slide no. CYP 12031; 1 ♀, Laoshan, Mt. Maoer, Shangzhi City (45.20ºN, 127.50ºE), Heilongjiang Province, 16.vii.2009, leg. Weichun Li & Jiayu Liu, gen. slide no. CYP 1104; 1 ♀, Maoer Mountain National Forest Park (45.28ºN, 127.52ºE), Heilongjiang Province, 18.vii.2009, leg. Weichun Li, gen. slide no. CYP 1202.

Diagnosis. Adult ( Figs. 6, 7 ) with wingspan 31.5 – 37.5 mm. This species is very similar to P. ussurialis , but can be differentiated by the much slenderer fore wing in male, the curved sella apically exceeding ventral margin of the valva in the male genitalia ( Fig. 16 ), and the antrum with a pair of latero-medial processes in the female genitalia ( Fig. 23 ). In P. ussurialis , the sella does not reach ventral margin of the valva, and the antrum has no process.

Distribution. China (Hebei, Shanxi, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang), Japan, Russia (Amur, Chabarowsk).

Ecology. Caught in mountain from 800 m to 1475 m. Flight period in July.

Figures

FIGURES 2 - 7. Adults of Paratalanta spp. 2. P. annaluta sp. nov. holotype, ♂; 3. P. annaluta sp. nov. paratype, ♀; 4. P. furcata sp. nov. paratype, ♂; 5. P. furcata sp. nov. paratype, ♀; 6. P. cultralis amurensis, ♂; 7. P. cultralis amurensis, ♀.

FIGURES 14 – 17. Male genitalia of Paratalanta spp. 14. P. annaluta sp. nov. holotype, genitalia slide no. ZDD 01713; 15. P. furcata sp. nov. paratype, genitalia slide no. CYP 12023; 16. P. cultralis amurensis, genitalia slide no. CYP 12030; 17. P. pandalis, genitalia slide no. CYP 12033.

FIGURES 21 – 26. Female genitalia of Paratalanta spp. 21. P. annaluta sp. nov. paratype, genitalia slide no. IOZ (E) 506397; 22. P. f u rc at a sp. nov. paratype, genitalia slide no. CYP 12045; 23. P. cultralis amurensis, genitalia slide no. CYP 12031; 24. P. pandalis, genitalia slide no. CYP 11035; 25. P. stachialis, genitalia slide no. CYP 11050; 26. P. ussurialis, genitalia slide no. CYP 12032.