Artona (Fuscartona) funeralis

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Artona (Fuscartona) funeralis (Butler, 1879) Figs 19 A, 19 B, 20 A, B Procris funeralis Butler, 1879: 351. TL: Japan. Note. Following the original description by Butler (1879: 351, in English): deep purplish brown, the fringes paler; the disc of secondaries whitish and semi-hyaline; abdomen black; claspers and proboscis horn-yellow; a whitish extruded anal tuft. Expanse of wings 9 lines. The description of this species was corrected by Efetov (1997: 168) based on the holotype examination. The holotype is a female with the male genitalia (mentioned by Butler as ‘ a whitish extruded anal tuft’) on the end of the abdomen connected with the female genitalia of the holotype. Material examined. Japan • 1 male, 1 female; Karamanzawa L-7, Onbetsu Hokkaido; 15 Jun. 2000; M. Sakurai leg.; adult and genitalia slide no. YN-3832 male, YN-3833 female. Distribution. ? Korea, Far East of Russia (Sakhalin and Southern Kuril Islands), China, Japan (Efetov 1997, 2016; Hirowatari et al. 2013; KSAE and ESK 2021; Efetov and Tarmann 2024). Host plants. According to Efetov (2016) and Hirowatari et al. (2013), Sasa species (Sasa kurilensis) of the family Poaceae, was noted as host plants of this species. Remarks. This species was first recorded from Gensan [Wonsan], Korea (currently North Korea) by Leech (1898: 331) under the name Adscita funeralis Butler, 1879. Subsequently, it was listed as Artona funeralis Butler by the Zoological Society of Korea (1968: 55), as Balataea funeralis (Butler, 1879) by Shin et al. (1983: 291), ESK and KSAE (1994: 339), and Paek et al. (2010: 277), and as Fuscartona funeralis (Butler, 1879) by KSAE and ESK (2021: 523); however, none of these publications provided illustrations of the adult or genitalia. Park et al. (2012) presented the first illustration of the adult, apparently a female, together with a brief description and ecological information, largely consistent with those given by Shin et al. (1983). All of the above-mentioned publications used a Korean common name for this species. When the original description of this species by Butler (1879), as well as the redescription by Efetov (1997), are compared with the brief descriptions in the Korean literature (Shin et al. 1983; Park et al. 2012), the Korean specimens are described as having a black ground color of the body and wings, with a slight bluish sheen on the body. This discrepancy suggests that species of Artona (Fuscartona) martini Efetov, 1997, may have been misidentified as Artona (Fuscartona) funeralis (Butler, 1879) in the Korean literature. A similar taxonomic confusion was also clarified by Hirowatari et al. (2013: 326) through their examination of Japanese material, in which they demonstrated that the name funeralis had long been misapplied to two distinct species and that A. (Fuscartona) martini represents a separate taxon with the type locality in Nagoya, Japan. Despite examinations of domestic institutional and private collections, as well as additional field surveys, no confirmed Korean specimens of A. funeralis (Butler) were found. Therefore, Japanese material was examined in the present study.

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