Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 93. (Budapest 2001)

Kun, A.: New Ethmiinae (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) species from Southeast Asia

Description - (Fig. 7): Male. Wingspan 23 mm. Antenna filiform, grey, basal segments slightly dilated, with white scales. Scape also with white scales; maxillary palp reduced, labial palp white with black scales on the last two segments; proboscis white. Frons and vertex white. Thorax whitish, with four black spots (Fig. 19); tegulae white with black scales at base. Forewing overlaid with black markings on white background, consisting mostly of elongate, rather small black patches (see Fig. 7). Hindwing greyish, without costal brushes; cilia whitish. Forelegs and midlcgs whitish grey with black scales, hindlcgs whitish grey, abdomen yellow, last four segments with two black spots on each segment. Male genitalia (Fig. 14): Uncus hood-like, flattened, bifid, with deep, more or less V-shaped medial incision; anterior and posterior parts of gnathos well-developed, posterior part dentate, anterior part wide, covered with small warts. Labis membranous, long, broad at base, tapering apically. Valva elongate, apically acute, covered with fine hairs, ventral margin with long, acute, wedgeshaped lobe at distal end of sacculus. Costa forming a long, sclerotized triangular plate; dorsal margin of aedeagus convex, carina with small, sclerotized ventral tooth; vesica without cornuti. Distribution - China (Prov. Hainan, Wuchishan (=Wujishan)). Bionomics - Unknown. The species was collected in a typical tropical seasonal lowland forest (S. H. YEN, pers. com.). Etymology - The species is dedicated to Dr. SllEN-HORN YEN, a zealous Taiwanese lepidoptcrist and collector of the species. Remarks - This species, as in the case of the former two ones, is supposedly sexually dimorphic. * * * Acknowledgements - I am grateful to the staff of the Lepidoptera Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, LASZLO RONKAY and LÁSZLÓ GOZMÁNY who have helped and given me valuable advice of the manuscript. I am indebted to KEVIN R. TUCK (The Natural History Museum, London), ANDREAS SEGERER (Zoologische Staatsammlung, Munich), GÜNTHER EBÉRT (Landesmuseum für Naturkunde, Karlsruhe) and THOMAS WITT (Witt Museum, Munich), ALEXANDER NAPOLOV, Sl-IEN-HORN YEN and CSABA S/.ABÓKY for their kind help submitting their interesting Ethmia material from SE Asia. REFERENCES DUBATOLOV, V. V., USTJUZHANIN, P.YA. & ZlNTSHENKO, V. K. (1997): A review of the Ethmiidae of the Asian part of Russia and neighbouring territories (Lepidoptera, Ethmiidae). - Atalanla 28 (1-2): 161-171. KUN, A. & SZABÓKY, Cs. (2000): Survey of the Taiwanese Ethmiinae (Lepidoptera, Oecophoridae) with descriptions of three new species. - Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 46 (1): 53-78. LlU. Y. ( 1980): A study of Chinese Ethmia Hübner (Lepidoptera: Ethmiidae) in classification, distribution and numerical taxonomy. - Entomotaxonomia 2 (4): 267-284. POWELL, J. A. (1973): A systematic monograph of New World ethmiid moths (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea). - Smithsonian Contributions of Zoology No. 120: 1-302.