Prorophora (Prorophora) albidogilvella Roesler, 1970

Liu, Jiayu & Li, Houhun, 2012, Taxonomic study of the genus Prorophora Ragonot, 1887 (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Phycitinae) in China, with description of a new species, ZooKeys 180, pp. 41-51 : 48-49

Prorophora (Prorophora) albidogilvella Roesler, 1970 Figs 5811

Prorophora albidogilvella Roesler, 1970: 50. [Holotype: ♂, Gobi Altaj aimak, Mongolia, deposited in Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary].

Prorophora (Prorophora) albidogilvella Roesler, 1970: Roesler, 1973: 65; Roesler, 1987: 394.

Material examined.

China, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region: 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀, Ejin Qi (41.9°N, 101°E), 927 m, 17−18.VII.2006, coll. Xinpu Wang and Xiangfeng Shi; Gansu Province: 1 ♂, Minqin County (38.6°N, 103.0°E), 1343 m, 26.VII.2006, coll. Xinpu Wang and Xiangfeng Shi. (genitalia slide nos. LJY09075 ♂; LJY11074 ♀; LJY11081 ♀).

Diagnosis.

Adult (Fig. 5) with wingspan 15.0−18.0 mm. This species is conspicuously different from its congeners by the costa distally thornlike and separated from the valva, and the apex-straight sacculus with a dorsoapical spine in the male genitalia (Fig. 8); and by the ductus bursae curved in S shape distally, and having a sclerotized ring-shaped plate at the entrance of the corpus bursae which is covered with pyramidlike thorns on inner surface in the female genitalia (Fig. 11).

Distribution.

China (Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Gansu); Mongolia.