Ihlegramma ihlei Eitschberger, 2003

Ihlegramma ihlei Eitschberger, 2003 View in CoL

Figs 1A–B View Figure 1 , 2A–D View Figure 2

Type locality: “ Laos, 1000 m, Ban Hin Ngon , 15 km SW von Xan Nua ”, [Houaphanh province] .

Material examined: LAOS: Phongsaly province, mountain tropical forest, 21°37'18"N, 101°57'06"E, 03-04.viii.2024, V. Spitsyn & E. Spitsyna leg. – 1♂ GoogleMaps ; Phongsaly province, mountain tropical forest, 21°37'18"N, 101°57'06"E, 12-13.viii.2024, V. Spitsyn & E. Spitsyna leg. – 1♀ GoogleMaps ; Phongsaly province, Phongsaly town, mountain tropical forest, 21°41'34"N, 102°06'19"E, 06-09.viii.2024, V. Spitsyn & E. Spitsyna leg. – 5♂ GoogleMaps ; Phongsaly province, Boun Neua town , mountain tropical forest, 21°37'23"N, 101°55'36"E, 15-16.viii.2024, V. Spitsyn & E. Spitsyna leg. – 1♂ GoogleMaps .

Description. Female morphology: Wingspan 100 mm, forewing length 51 mm. Eye black. Antenna brown. Frons brown-grey. Vertex brown-grey. Labial palpus long (its length approximately 1.5 of eye diameter), black dorsally, grey-creamy ventrally, its apical part grey-brown. Thorax grey-brown dorsally, grey-creamy ventrally. Legs brown, inner surface white-creamy. Patagium and tegula grey-brown with black band. Upperside of forewing: ground colour grey-brown with brown and irregular black-grey spots; central cell with white spot contrasting with ground colour of wing; basal line black-brown, strongly curved; antemedial band reduced to black spot and absent beyond central cell; medial band wide and black from costal margin to М 2, and narrow, indistinct and brown from М 2 to anal margin; postmedial stripe divided into separated, diffuse, black-brown and brown spots; apical stripe wide, black-brown; medial and postmedial areas with two bold and black lines (first one between М 3 и Cu 1 and second one between Cu 1 и Cu 2); fringe of forewing with bicolour scales (white-creamy and grey-brown). Underside of forewing grey-brown. Upperside of hindwing dark brown, anal margin grey. Underside of hindwing grey-brown, basal part and area between 3А and 2А light grey-creamy, anal margin dark grey. Abdomen brown-grey dorsally, white-creamy ventrally, with one dorsal and two lateral (one from each side) dark brown lines. Female genitalia: Papilla analis medium-sized, its surface covered with elongated follicles with hairs. Apophysis posterioris long, moderately sclerotised. Apophysis anterioris medium-long, well-sclerotised, with curved basal part. Antrum elongated, well-sclerotised. Ductus bursae very long. Corpus bursae strongly elongated, ovoid. Defined border between ductus bursae and corpus bursae absent. Signum large, drop-shaped, bearing multiple denticles. Comment on male morphology: Wingspan 86–93 mm, forewing length 45–47 mm (n = 7). Harpe has toothed margins (it is barely visible in the figures provided in Eitschberger’s work (2003)).

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education (project No. FUUW-2023-0001).

References

Eitschberger, U. (2003) Eine neue Sphingiden-Gattung mit einer neuen Art – Ihlegramma gen. nov. ihlei spec. nov. aus Laos (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten, 54, 105– 111.