Teliphasa erythrina Li, 2016

Ranjan, Rahul, Singh, Navneet & Kirti, Jagbir Singh, 2022, On the taxonomy of genus Teliphasa Moore, 1888 (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae Epipaschiinae) with the description of two new species and two new species records from India, Zootaxa 5141 (1), pp. 60-70 : 61

Teliphasa erythrina Li in Liu, Wang & Li, 2016: 127–128

( Figs 9 , 14 )

Type locality: Mengla County, Bubang , Yunnan Province, China .

Diagnosis: T. erythrina ( Fig. 9 ) is very similar to T. amica ( Liu et al. 2016: Fig. 12 ) but is distinct in the forewing with a rusty brown postmedial area and basal area tinged with fuscous, whereas in T. amica the forewing basal area is completely fuscous and the marginal area is olivaceous fuscous. In male genitalia, the uncus is triangular, and the complex of tegumen and vinculum form a shape of number ‘8’ (whereas in T. amica uncus is semicircular and tegumen vinculum complex is almost straight). Furthermore, T. erythrina is distinct from T. nubilosa ( Figs 1 , 15 ) by the labial palpi of male reaching up to the vertex of head, the forewing with a medial whitish area tinged with fuscous, the hindwing with a basal and medial area having whitish suffusion; male genitalia with the uncus apically pointed and the vesica with longer and narrower cornutus, whereas in T. nubilosa the labial palpi of male reach up and posteriad to the prothorax, the forewing medial area is tinged olive, the hindwing has a suffusion of more fuscous scales, and in the male genitalia, the uncus is apically flat and the vesica bears a shorter, more robust cornutus.

Material examined. India, Meghalaya, Umtasor , 2 ♂, 15.ix.2014 , 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 16.ix.2014 ( R. Ranjan leg.) ( NZCSI) .

Distribution: Indian record: Meghalaya (present study); Global record: China ( Liu et al. 2016).

Figures

FIGURES 7–10. Imago of Teliphasa spp. 7, male & 8, female, T. spinaejuxta sp. nov; 9, male, T. erythrina; 10, male, T. similalbifusa.

FIGURES 14–19. Male genitalia of Teliphasa spp. 14, T. erythrina; 15, T. nubilosa; 16, T. dodaki sp. nov.; 17, T. similalbifusa; 18, T. hamata; 19, T. spinaejuxta sp. nov..

FIGURES 11–13. Female genitalia of Teliphasa spp. 11, T. nubilosa; 12, T. hamata; 13, T. spinaejuxta sp. nov.

FIGURES 1–6. Imago of Teliphasa spp. 1, male & 2, female, T. nubilosa; 3, male & 4, female, T. hamata; 5, male, holotype & 6, male, paratype, T. dodaki sp. nov.;