Lophoptera nama (Swinhoe, 1900)

Figs. 56, 57, 116, 143, 169

Gyrtona nama Swinhoe, 1900, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (7) 7:492. Syntypes: 1 male 1 female, [India]: [Meghalaya], Jaintia Hills (BMNH).

Lophoptera acrogramma Turner, 1932, Trans. Proc. Roy. Soc. South Aust., 56: 177. Lophoptera nama: Holloway, 1985, Malay. Nat. J., 38: 267.

Diagnosis. This and the next species ( L. brunnama Holloway, 1985) have a greyish-white angular patch at the apex of the forewing, which is bigger and tinged with yellow in L. nama; the ground color of the forewing of L. nama is lighter than in L. brunnama . In the male genitalia, the apex of the valva bears a small process, but that of L. brunnama is round.

Material examined. CHINA, Hainan: 1 female, Jianfengling, 4.V.1983, coll. Gu Maobin (IZCAS). Guangxi: 1 male, Jinxiu, Luoxiang, 200 m, 15.V.1999, coll. Han Hongxiang; 1 female, Shangsi, Hongqi Linchang, 300 m, 28.V.1999, coll. Zhang Yanzhou (IZCAS).

Distribution. China (Fujian, Taiwan, Hainan, Guangxi, Tibet), India, Bhutan, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia.

Remarks. Holloway (1985) stated that this species was transferred to Lophoptera by Sugi in Inoue et al. (1982), but it does not appear in that work. So far as we know, the species nama was firstly transfered to Lophoptera by Holloway (1985).