Harutaeographa monimalis (Draudt, 1950)

Benedek, Balazs, Saldaitis, Aidas & Rimsaite, Jolanta, 2012, Taxonomic and faunistic studies on the genus Harutaeographa (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Orthosiini) with description of a new species, ZooKeys 242, pp. 51-67 : 53-54

Harutaeographa monimalis (Draudt, 1950) Figs 4, 51824

Material examined.

1 male, 1 female, China, W. Yunnan, Baiyunshan, 2600 m, Yunlong county, end of ii - early iii.2008, leg. Yi et al, in the collection of DNK; slide Nos JB1851m (Fig. 18); JB1852f.

Diagnosis.

Male genitalia. Uncus small, elongated; tegumen short; juxta long, tongue-shaped, more or less quadrangular; vinculum short and heavily sclerotised, U-shaped; sacculus broad, with more or less parallel margins. Clasper relatively large, thumb-like, with elongated and heavily sclerotised base; clasper fused with relatively small and evenly curved ampulla. Valvae more or less symmetrical, broad, armed with strong, finger-shaped ventral process and large, broad digitus; cucullus broad and strong, more or less rhomboidal in shape. Aedeagus relatively long, straight and broad; vesica evenly helicoid in shape, everted ventrally, covered with a row of fine spiculi from basal part of vesica along to terminal segment where it merges into a stouter cluster of longer spines forming a brush-like structure. Female genitalia (Fig. 24): Ostium bursae wide, rounded; ductus relatively short; appendix bursae helicoid with three coils; corpus bursae constricted mesially with both anterior and posterior sections broadly elliptical.

Note.

This is the first new report of this species known previously only by its holotype specimen collected by Dr. H. Höne in 1935 (coll. ZFMK, Bonn).