Prays lobata Yu et Li, 2004

Cong, Peixin & Li, Houhun, 2017, Review of the genus Prays Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Praydidae) from China, with descriptions of twelve new species, Zootaxa 4263 (2), pp. 201-227 : 217

Prays lobata Yu et Li, 2004

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Prays lobata Yu et Li, 2004: 16 . TL: China (Hubei). TD: NKU.

Type material. CHINA: Holotype ♂, Hubei Province : Mahe [29.60°N, 109.10°E], Xianfeng , 400 m, 25.VII.1999, coll. Houhun Li et al., genitalia slide No. YHL00282 .

Diagnosis. Adult ( Fig. 17 ) with wingspan 12.0 mm. This species is similar to P. epsilon Moriuti, 1977 by the recurved socii with teeth, but it differs from the latter in the male genitalia by the valva with two unequally sized denticles before apex on the dorsal margin ( Fig. 33 ). In P. epsilon , the valva is produced into a triangular process befroe apex on the ventral margin ( Moriuti, 1977: Plate XXIII, fig. 252).

Distribution. China (Hubei).

Figures

FIGURES 17 – 22. Adults of Prays spp. 17, P. lobata, holotype, ♂; 18, P. dorsiprotrusa sp. nov., holotype, ♂; 19, P. inconspicua, ♀; 20, P. helanshana sp. nov., paratype, ♀; 21, P. acinacea sp. nov., paratype, ♀; 22, P. alpha, ♀. (Scales = 2.0 mm).

FIGURES 29 – 34. Male genitalia of Prays spp. 29, P. longisaccula sp. nov. (holotype, slide no. CPX 15160); 30, P. semilunata sp. nov. (paratype, slide no. CPX 15153); 31, P. tineiformis (slide no. CPX 15202); 32, P. semicircularis sp. nov. (holotype, slide no. CPX 16003); 33, P. lobata (holotype, slide no. YHL 00282); 34, P. dorsiprotrusa sp. nov. (holotype, slide no. CPX 15142). (Scales = 0.2 mm).