Paratalanta ussurialis Bremer 1864

Paratalanta ussurialis (Bremer, 1864) (Figs. 12, 13, 20, 26) Botyodes ussurialis Bremer, 1864: 68. Type locality: Amur. Paratalanta ussurialis (Bremer, 1864): Meyrick, 1890: 441. Material examined. CHINA: 1 ♀, Mt. Xiaowutai, Yu County (39.93 ��N, 114.95 ��E), Hebei Province, 20.viii. 2005, leg. Yunli Xiao, gen. slide no. CYP 12032; 2 ♂♂, Huansongpu Forest Farm (43.85 ��N, 125.36 ��E), Antu County, Jilin Province, 1010 m, 4.viii. 2004, leg. Aihuan Zhang; 1 ♂, Liangshui National natural reserve (47.13 ��N, 128.85 ��E), Heilongjiang Province, 22.vii. 2009, leg. Weichun Li & Jiayu Liu, gen. slide no. CYP 11042; 1 ♂, Mt. Daiyun administration, Dehua County (25.68 ��N, 118.18 ��E), Fujian Province, 870 m, 13.ix. 2002, leg. Xinpu Wang; 2 ♂♂, Shuilian Cave (32.35 ��N, 113.36 ��E), Mt. Tongbai, Henan Province, 300 m, 14.ix. 2000, leg. Houhun Li & O. Karsholt; 9 ♂♂, Dashahe, Daozhen County (28.85 ��N, 107.60 ��E), Guizhou Province, 1350 m, 25.v. 2004, leg. Shulian Hao; 1 ♂, Pingyuan Village, Daozhen County, Guizhou Province, 1300 m, 22.viii. 2004, leg. Yunli Xiao; 1 ♂, Guo Village, Daozhen County, Guizhou Province, 1300 m, 21.viii. 2004, leg. Yunli Xiao; 1 ♂, Dashahe, Daozhen County, Guizhou Province, 1370 m, 25.viii. 2004, leg. Yunli Xiao, gen. slide no. CYP 11032; 1 ♂, Fangxiang Village, Leishan County (26.37 ��N, 108.07 ��E), Guizhou Province, 900 m, 13.ix. 2005, leg. Jialiang Zhang; 16 ♂♂, Huguo Temple, Mt. Fanjing (27.83 ��N, 108.76 ��E), Guizhou Province, 1390 m, 28.v. 2002, leg. Xinpu Wang; 1 ♂, Danfeng County (33.72 ��N, 110.33 ��E), Shaanxi Province, 680 m, 28.v. 1994, leg. Jin Zhou, gen. slide no. ZDD01865; 2 ♀♀, Xinmin Forest Farm, Jingyuan County (35.48 ��N, 106.33 ��E), Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, 2100 m, 7.viii. 2000, leg. Houhun Li & Shuxia Wang, gen. slide no. ZDD01866. Diagnosis. Adult (Figs. 12, 13) with wingspan 30.2 ��� 35.5 mm. This species is characterized by the narrow and long fore wing having a rectangular reniform stigma in male; the straight spine-shaped sella and the juxta concave deeply to 1 / 2 length on the posterior margin in the male genitalia (Fig. 20); and the antrum with long setae on the postero-lateral margin (Fig. 26). Distribution. China (Fujian, Guizhou, Heilongjiang, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Jilin, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan), Korea, Japan, Russia (Far East). Ecology. Caught in mountains from 300 m to 2100 m. Flight period from end of May to middle September.
Published as part of Zhang, Dandan, Cai, Yanpeng & Li, Houhun, 2014, Taxonomic review of the genus Paratalanta Meyrick, 1890 (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Pyraustinae) from China, with descriptions of two new species, pp. 118-132 in Zootaxa 3753 (2) on pages 130-131, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3753.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/227700
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