TY - JOUR
T1 - Review of the genus Vespina (Lepidoptera, Incurvariidae) with two new species from China and Japan
AU - Hirowatari, Toshiya
AU - Yagi, Sadahisa
AU - Ohshima, Issei
AU - Huang, Guo Hua
AU - Wang, Min
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Donald Davis (Smithsonian Institution, Washington) and late Ebbe Nielsen (CSIRO, Canberra) for the literature and information on monotrysian Heteroneura. We further thank Norio Hirai and Nagao Hirano (Nagano, Japan) for providing us with the materials. We also thank Jonas Stonis (Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences) and Shigeki Kobayashi (OPU) for their valuable comments and suggestions as reviewers. This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no.30800710, 31411140034), JSPS, and NSFC under the Japan-China Scientific Cooperation Program, and JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Number JP16H05766).
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PY - 2021/2/12
Y1 - 2021/2/12
N2 - Asian species of the genus Vespina Davis, 1972 (Lepidoptera, Incurvariidae) are mainly reviewed. Vespina meridiana Hirowatari & Yagi sp. nov. from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and Vespina sichuana Hirowatari, Huang & Wang sp. nov. from Sichuan, China, are described. The previously known Vespina species are associated with plants from the Fagaceae family on the western coast of the USA and East Asia and with Sapindaceae (Aceraceae) in eastern Europe. The two new species described here are associated with Fagaceae and Myricaceae, respectively, in warm temperate areas in Asia. Vespina nielseni Kozlov, 1987, which was only known from East Asia, is newly recorded from South China. A checklist for the genus is provided herein. Morphological information of the immature stages of the two new species is partially provided. The absence or reduction of a female frenulum and presence of approximately 20 thin pseudofrenular bristles, the dorsoventrally flattened pupa, and the minute tergal spines scattered on abdominal segments 3–8 are considered as possible autapomorphies of Vespina.
AB - Asian species of the genus Vespina Davis, 1972 (Lepidoptera, Incurvariidae) are mainly reviewed. Vespina meridiana Hirowatari & Yagi sp. nov. from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and Vespina sichuana Hirowatari, Huang & Wang sp. nov. from Sichuan, China, are described. The previously known Vespina species are associated with plants from the Fagaceae family on the western coast of the USA and East Asia and with Sapindaceae (Aceraceae) in eastern Europe. The two new species described here are associated with Fagaceae and Myricaceae, respectively, in warm temperate areas in Asia. Vespina nielseni Kozlov, 1987, which was only known from East Asia, is newly recorded from South China. A checklist for the genus is provided herein. Morphological information of the immature stages of the two new species is partially provided. The absence or reduction of a female frenulum and presence of approximately 20 thin pseudofrenular bristles, the dorsoventrally flattened pupa, and the minute tergal spines scattered on abdominal segments 3–8 are considered as possible autapomorphies of Vespina.
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U2 - 10.11646/zootaxa.4927.2.3
DO - 10.11646/zootaxa.4927.2.3
M3 - Review article
C2 - 33756708
AN - SCOPUS:85101003308
SN - 1175-5326
VL - 4927
SP - 209
EP - 233
JO - Zootaxa
JF - Zootaxa
IS - 2
ER -