Abstract
A new species of Stenoloba from the olivacea species group, Stenoloba solaris, sp. n. (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), is described from Yunnan, China. Illustrations of the male holotype and its genitalia are provided. A diagnostic comparison is made with Stenoloba albistriata Kononenko & Ronkay, 2000, Stenoloba olivacea (Wileman, 1914), and Stenoloba benedeki Ronkay, 2001 (Fig. 4).
Highlights
Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892 is an East Asian genus of the subfamily Bryophilinae
The first comprehensive revisions of the genus were published by Kononenko and Ronkay (2000, 2001) and Ronkay (2001) based on the East Palaearctic and northern Oriental species
Several articles have increased taxonomic knowledge of this large and very diverse genus including most notably a 2010 publication by Behounek & Kononenko which listed 75 species arranged into 14 species-groups
Summary
A new species of Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892 from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Bryophilinae). Lafontaine | Received 13 March 2013 | Accepted 12 June 2013 | Published 17 June 2013 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0E571669-1249-486C-853A-6232012767A9
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