Agonopterix bipunctosa ( Curtis, 1850 )

Zhu, Xiaoju, Zhang, Li & Wang, Shuxia, 2023, New species and newly recorded species of the genus Agonopterix Hübner, [1825] (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae) from China, Zootaxa 5258 (4), pp. 379-404 : 394

Agonopterix bipunctosa ( Curtis, 1850)

( Figs 18 , 40 )

Depressaria bipunctosa Curtis, 1850: 116 .

Agonopterix bipunctosa ( Curtis, 1850) : Palm, 1989: 78.

Material examined. CHINA, Xinjiang: 1♁, Hemu, Burjin , 1114 m, 24.VII.2007, leg. XP Wang et al., slide No. ZL 08225 .

Diagnosis. Adult ( Fig. 18 ). Wingspan 19.5 mm. Agonopterix bipunctosa is similar to A. pallorella ( Zeller, 1839) in both forewing pattern and male genitalia, and can be distinguished by the forewing with a blackish dot at base of the costal margin, which is absent in A. pallorella ; and in the male genitalia by the distal half of the cuiller almost uniformly wide ( Fig. 40 ), while the distal half of the cuiller is triangularly expanded in A. pallorella ( Buchner 2017a: 12, fig. 21).

Distribution. China (Xinjiang), Southern England, southern Sweden, France, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Russia ( Lvovsky 2006).

Figures

FIGURES 17‒23. Adults of Agonopterix spp. 17, A. arenella, ♀; 18, A. bipunctosa, ♁; 19, A. broennoeensis, ♀; 20, A. kaekeritziana, ♁; 21, A. kirgizella, ♁; 22, A. ochrocephala, ♁; 23, A. septicella, ♁. Scales = 2.0 mm.

FIGURES 36‒41. Male genitalia of Agonopterix spp. 36, A. sphaeroidea sp. nov., paratype, slide No. ZL08106; 37, A. abditella, slide No. ZL09014; 38, A. angelicella, slide No. ZL08192; 39, A. arctica, slide No. ZL08167; 40, A. bipunctosa, slide No. ZL08225; 41, A. broennoeensis, slide No. ZL09034. Scales = 0.2 mm.