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<mods:titleid="5A5EE2FB4765ACBA8EC32E32B3B407C8">An overview of genera and subgenera of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae). Part 1. Barsine Walker, 1854 sensu lato, Asura Walker, 1854 and related genera, with descriptions of twenty new genera, ten new subgenera and a check list of taxa of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex</mods:title>
<mods:namePartid="C97F3FD883E0B8494925141CA697BA41">Volynkin, Anton V.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="FF87CB5E17A6D9C73239AC59A2ED40FF">Altai State University, Lenina Avenue, 61, RF- 656049, Barnaul, Russia & National Research Tomsk State University, Lenina Avenue, 36, RF- 634050, Tomsk, Russia</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="29C5E18D12F720C54ED55F2A1C5CF2CA">Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, Guangdong, China * Corresponding author. E-mail: volynkin _ a @ mail. ru</mods:affiliation>
<figureCitationid="13300DEA5529805680934675A41C1460"box="[686,822,1539,1566]"captionStart="Figures 31–46"captionStartId="12.[151,236,1949,1973]"captionTargetBox="[159,1436,193,1894]"captionTargetId="figure-19@12.[151,1436,189,1913]"captionTargetPageId="12"captionText="Figures 31–46. Type species of genera and subgenera of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex: adults. Depositories of specimens: 31, 32 – NHMUK; 33–46 – MWM/ZSM."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13355636"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13355636/files/figure.png"pageId="16"pageNumber="30">Figs 41, 42</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="13300DEA55298056817F4675A45B1460"box="[834,881,1539,1566]"captionStart="Figures 124–127"captionStartId="31.[151,236,1926,1950]"captionTargetBox="[189,1416,257,1846]"captionTargetId="figure-19@31.[151,1436,256,1855]"captionTargetPageId="31"captionText="Figures 124–127. Type species of genera of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex: male genitalia."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13355654"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13355654/files/figure.png"pageId="16"pageNumber="30">125</figureCitation>
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<emphasisid="B97FCD7D5529805680834630A6C61402"italics="true"pageId="16"pageNumber="30">A catalogue of the lepidopterous insects in the Museum of Natural History at the East-India House</emphasis>
<emphasisid="B97FCD7D5529805683FC46F2A27A14E5"box="[449,1360,1667,1691]"italics="true"pageId="16"pageNumber="30">List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum</emphasis>
<bibRefCitationid="EF9A6C9E5529805681C446D4A39414C4"author="Hampson, G. F."box="[1017,1214,1698,1722]"pageId="16"pageNumber="30"pagination="1 - 590"refId="ref31860"refString="Hampson, G. F. (1900) Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum, 2, 1 - 590."type="journal article"year="1900">Hampson (1900))</bibRefCitation>
. In the male genitalia, the tegumen is broad; the juxta with a deep medial basal concavity; the valva is short and medially broadened, nearly elliptical. The combination of such features as the presence of a robust, thorn-shaped medial costal process and the absence of distal costal and saccular processes and distal membranous lobe of valva is characteristic for the genus. Aedeagus is large, and the vesica structure is similar to that of
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<figureCitationid="13300DEA55288057809341A7A41C1392"box="[686,822,465,492]"captionStart="Figures 31–46"captionStartId="12.[151,236,1949,1973]"captionTargetBox="[159,1436,193,1894]"captionTargetId="figure-19@12.[151,1436,189,1913]"captionTargetPageId="12"captionText="Figures 31–46. Type species of genera and subgenera of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex: adults. Depositories of specimens: 31, 32 – NHMUK; 33–46 – MWM/ZSM."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13355636"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13355636/files/figure.png"pageId="17"pageNumber="31">Figs 43, 44</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="13300DEA55288057817F41A7A45B1392"box="[834,881,465,492]"captionStart="Figures 124–127"captionStartId="31.[151,236,1926,1950]"captionTargetBox="[189,1416,257,1846]"captionTargetId="figure-19@31.[151,1436,256,1855]"captionTargetPageId="31"captionText="Figures 124–127. Type species of genera of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex: male genitalia."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13355654"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13355654/files/figure.png"pageId="17"pageNumber="31">126</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="13300DEA55288057814141A7A4831392"box="[892,937,465,492]"captionStart="Figures 182–189"captionStartId="44.[151,236,1842,1866]"captionTargetBox="[154,1436,287,1769]"captionTargetId="figure-19@44.[151,1436,281,1774]"captionTargetPageId="44"captionText="Figures 182–189. Type species of genera, subgenera and their synonyms of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex: female genitalia."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13355680"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13355680/files/figure.png"pageId="17"pageNumber="31">182</figureCitation>
Medium-sized moths with pale red body and wing colouration and pattern consisting of blackish suffusion along veins only. Antennae of both sexes ciliate. In the male genitalia, the valva lacks distal costal and saccular processes, like in
, but the medial costal process is small, tubercle-like and setose as well as the area around it (an autapomorphic feature; similar tubercle-like process is known in
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only, but in the latter that is heavily sclerotised and not setose). In addition, in
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the sacculus is narrower and shorter, not reaching the valva apex. Aedeagus is elongated and narrow, nearly straight; vesica is short, nearly elliptical, with two clusters of numerous various sized small and very small thorn-like cornuti. In the female genitalia, the ductus bursae is subdivided into the heavily sclerotised trapezoidal antrum and the moderately sclerotised anterior section. The anterior section of corpus bursae is elliptical, membranous, with a weakly dentate signum medially. The posterior section of corpus bursae is narrow, moderately sclerotised and weakly rugose. The appendix bursae originates from the posterior section of corpus bursae and is evenly moderately sclerotised and weakly rugose also. Such an appendix bursae structure is unique among the generic complex.
