Liocrobyla brachybotrys Kuroko, 1960
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Liocrobyla brachybotrys Kuroko, 1960
Liocrobyla brachybotrys Kuroko, 1960: 6. TL: Kyushu, Japan. TD: ELKU (Holotype; Allotype); ELKU, NHMUK (Paratypes).
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; otherCatalogNumbers: gen.slide no. HNUSEL-5529; Taxon : taxonID: HNU_GRD_0195; scientificNameID: Liocrobyla brachybotrys Kuroko , 1960; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Lepidoptera ; family: Gracillariidae ; genus: Liocrobyla ; Location : country: South Korea; stateProvince: Gyeonsangbuk-do ; county: Gyeongju-si; Event: year: 1980; month: 8; day: 22
Description
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Adult (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 A). Head a tuft of fuscous scales near scape; frons white and pale ochrous with a tuft of white rather long scales below scape and the scales basal fuscous; maxillary palpus white with fuscous laterally; labial palpus white and apical of second segment with a fuscous band; antenna fuscous dorsally and white ventrally; scape fuscous dorsally and white on ventrally with a tuft scales on below. Thorax white mixed with pale ochrous; legs white with rough scales; fore coxa greyish-brown; middle femur and tibia fuscous and two narrow rings on sub-basal and median part of tibia; middle tarsus with four fuscous bands and the last of the two on apex side by side; hind femur greyish-brown; hind tibia white, except for basal and apical part; hind tarsus with three obscure fuscous bands. Wingspan 6.8 mm. Forewing ground colour fuscous mixed with ochrous and blackish scales; a goldish-orange ochrous stripe on the dorsal margin of basal to apical part with some white spots; a short white stria at 1/5 of forewing beginning at the dorsal margin and obliquely stretched outwards; longer white stria at 1/3 of forewing; first costa-stria at half of the forewing, reaching up to wing fold, broadening at basal and narrowing to apical; second costa-stria 2/3 of forewing with a black stria inside; the last white stria minute, curved to the inside and rather longitudinally reaching to wing fold; a pair of white spots on the apex with blackish-brown spot; outer line of apex white with blackish edges on both sides. Hind-wing greyish-brown, cilia long and densely along outer margin.
Male genitalia (Fig. 2 View Figure 2 F). Tegumen is as long as 2/3 of valva, membranous and slender. Valva elongated, narrowed to apex and is slightly swollen at 2/3 to basal part; long setae along ventral margin on the apex to sub-basal part, longer at the median to basal, a star-like, sclerotised with four large spinules on apex and each spinule same in length; costal process as long as valva, broad at 1/3 to apical, apical slightly rectangular with long and straight setae. Vinculum elongated and narrowed to saccus; saccus narrow and short. Aedeagus entirely sclerotised, slightly bent, broad to apex, concave near apex with large spinules, apex highly acute and numerous tiny spinules covered at 1/3 from the apex.
Distribution
Korea, Japan.
Notes
This species was reported for the first time from Korea by Kim and Byun (2019).
Host plants
Wisteria floribunda (Willd.) DC. [ Fabaceae ] in Korea (in this study). W. brachybotrys Siebold & Zucc. [ Fabaceae ] in Japan ( Kuroko 1960, De Prins and De Prins 2011).
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Liocrobyla brachybotrys Kuroko, 1960
| Kim, Da-Som, Lee, Ji-Young & Byun, Bong-Kyu 2023 |
Liocrobyla brachybotrys
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