<documentid="D674CBAECA83B18223D619E9B74307B4"ID-DOI="10.37828/em.2023.68.3"ID-ISSN="2336-9744"ID-Zenodo-Dep="13247134"ID-ZooBank="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:056C13E9-C85C-4803-B27D-AD181809DD13"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatments_approvedBy="felipe"checkinTime="1722972544256"checkinUser="felipe"docAuthor="Volynkin, Anton V, Černý, Karel, Huang, Si-Yao & Saldaitis, Aidas"docDate="2023"docId="03873A5AA077FFCEFF6FFF63FD82FBE6"docLanguage="en"docName="EcolMontenegrina.68.12-37.pdf"docOrigin="Ecologica Montenegrina 68"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2023.68.3"docStyle="DocumentStyle:3485E46B0EDC64DBF2992EDE30BFB5AE.2:EcolMontenegrina.2017-.journal_article"docStyleId="3485E46B0EDC64DBF2992EDE30BFB5AE"docStyleName="EcolMontenegrina.2017-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="2"docTitle="Miltochrista asphida Volynkin, Černý, Huang & Saldaitis, 2023, sp. n."docType="treatment"docUuid="DB5A9098-F99A-4086-9D85-DB8C9B27E44E"docUuidSource="ZooBank"docVersion="3"lastPageNumber="19"masterDocId="FFBE4222A070FFC9FFF8FFA6FF85FFE3"masterDocTitle="Thirteen new species of the genus Miltochrista Hübner from Indochina, China, Myanmar and India (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini)"masterLastPageNumber="37"masterPageNumber="12"pageNumber="19"updateTime="1722981376954"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-4.0">
<mods:titleid="2784204194742306215DE1DD58C489EE">Thirteen new species of the genus Miltochrista Hübner from Indochina, China, Myanmar and India (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini)</mods:title>
<taxonomicNameid="4C2EF0CFA077FFCEFF6FFF63FE17FF3C"ID-CoL="BV6BL"authorityName="Volynkin & Černý & Huang & Saldaitis"authorityYear="2023"box="[151,402,197,223]"class="Insecta"family="Erebidae"genus="Miltochrista"kingdom="Animalia"order="Lepidoptera"pageId="7"pageNumber="19"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="species"species="asphida"status="sp. nov.">
<figureCitationid="131597C9A077FFCEFECBFEA3FEF8FEFC"box="[307,381,261,287]"captionStart="Figures 70–73"captionStartId="20.[151,237,1996,2019]"captionTargetBox="[151,1436,199,1915]"captionTargetId="figure-7@20.[151,1436,189,1928]"captionTargetPageId="20"captionText="Figures 70–73. Miltochrista spp.: male genitalia. Depositories of the specimens dissected: 70, 71 and 73 in MWM/ZSM; 72 in WIGJ (ex CAV)."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13247155"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13247155/files/figure.png"pageId="7"pageNumber="19">72, 73</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="131597C9A077FFCEFDBBFEEEFDE0FE81"box="[579,613,328,354]"captionStart="Figures 70–73"captionStartId="20.[151,237,1996,2019]"captionTargetBox="[151,1436,199,1915]"captionTargetId="figure-7@20.[151,1436,189,1928]"captionTargetPageId="20"captionText="Figures 70–73. Miltochrista spp.: male genitalia. Depositories of the specimens dissected: 70, 71 and 73 in MWM/ZSM; 72 in WIGJ (ex CAV)."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13247155"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13247155/files/figure.png"pageId="7"pageNumber="19">72</figureCitation>
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)
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;
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<figureCitationid="131597C9A077FFCEFF67FD3FFEAFFD50"box="[159,298,665,691]"captionStart="Figures 39–49"captionStartId="14.[151,237,1985,2008]"captionTargetBox="[171,1416,192,1859]"captionTargetId="figure-7@14.[151,1436,189,1887]"captionTargetPageId="14"captionText="Figures 39–49. Miltochrista spp.: adults. Depositories of the specimens: 39 and 45 in WIGJ (ex CAV); 40 and 47 in CKC; 41–44 in MWM/ZSM; 46 in CAV; 48 and 49 in ZFMK."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13247142"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13247142/files/figure.png"pageId="7"pageNumber="19">Figs 39–44</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="131597C9A077FFCEFE10FD1DFDF6FD36"box="[488,627,699,725]"captionStart="Figures 70–73"captionStartId="20.[151,237,1996,2019]"captionTargetBox="[151,1436,199,1915]"captionTargetId="figure-7@20.[151,1436,189,1928]"captionTargetPageId="20"captionText="Figures 70–73. Miltochrista spp.: male genitalia. Depositories of the specimens dissected: 70, 71 and 73 in MWM/ZSM; 72 in WIGJ (ex CAV)."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13247155"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13247155/files/figure.png"pageId="7"pageNumber="19">Figs 72, 73</figureCitation>
) is clearly different from other similar congeners due to the shield-like dilated proximal section of the uncus (reminiscent of the externally dissimilar
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<figureCitationid="131597C9A077FFCEFEB5FD58FEE9FCFB"box="[333,364,766,792]"captionStart="Figures 74–77"captionStartId="21.[151,237,1996,2019]"captionTargetBox="[151,1436,205,1913]"captionTargetId="figure-10@21.[151,1436,189,1928]"captionTargetPageId="21"captionText="Figures 74–77. Miltochrista spp.: male genitalia. Depositories of the specimens dissected: 74 in OUMNH; 75 and 76 in MWM/ZSM; 77 in WIGJ (ex CAV)."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13247157"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13247157/files/figure.png"pageId="7"pageNumber="19">74</figureCitation>
), and the narrow and strongly elongate valva. The vesica configuration of
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<figureCitationid="131597C9A077FFCEFC71FC86FC63FCD9"box="[905,998,800,826]"captionStart="Figures 74–77"captionStartId="21.[151,237,1996,2019]"captionTargetBox="[151,1436,205,1913]"captionTargetId="figure-10@21.[151,1436,189,1928]"captionTargetPageId="21"captionText="Figures 74–77. Miltochrista spp.: male genitalia. Depositories of the specimens dissected: 74 in OUMNH; 75 and 76 in MWM/ZSM; 77 in WIGJ (ex CAV)."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13247157"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13247157/files/figure.png"pageId="7"pageNumber="19">Figs 77</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="131597C9A077FFCEFC0AFC86FB94FCD9"box="[1010,1041,800,826]"captionStart="Figures 78–81"captionStartId="22.[151,237,1996,2019]"captionTargetBox="[160,1434,199,1915]"captionTargetId="figure-7@22.[151,1436,189,1928]"captionTargetPageId="22"captionText="Figures 78–81. Miltochrista spp.: male genitalia. Depositories of the specimens dissected: 78 in MWM/ZSM; 79 in ZFMK; 80 in WIGJ (ex CAV); 81 in CKC."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13247159"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13247159/files/figure.png"pageId="7"pageNumber="19">78</figureCitation>
) but in the new species, the main chamber is somewhat broader, the lateral cornutus is longer, and the apical diverticulum is slightly larger.
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<paragraphid="8B918B4CA077FFCEFF0DFCC2FD97FC9D"blockId="7.[151,1437,328,1029]"box="[245,530,868,894]"pageId="7"pageNumber="19">The female is unknown.</paragraph>
. The specific epithet is derived from the Greek ‘ασπίδα’ meaning ‘a shield’ and refers to the shield-like dilated proximal section of the uncus. The name is a noun in the nominative singular in apposition to the generic name.
