Four new species and one new subspecies of the Ghoria albocinerea Moore, 1878 species-group from northern Indochina and China (Lepidoptera, Erebidae Arctiinae, Lithosiini) Author Volynkin, Anton V. Altai State University, Lenina Avenue, 61, RF- 656049, Barnaul, Russia. & monstruncusarctia @ gmail. com; volynkin _ a @ mail. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9447 - 4925 & National Research Tomsk State University, Lenina Avenue, 36, RF- 634050, Tomsk, Russia. & monstruncusarctia @ gmail. com; volynkin _ a @ mail. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9447 - 4925 Author Saldaitis, Aidas Nature Research Centre, Akademijos str., 2, LT- 08412, Vilnius- 21, Lithuania. & saldrasa @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0999 - 3996 & saldrasa @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0999 - 3996 Author Černý, Karel Tiergartenstrasse 27, A- 6020 Innsbruck, Austria. & natura. cerny @ aon. at; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7207 - 2255 text Zootaxa 2020 2020-06-09 4789 2 575 588 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.2.11 1175-5326 3887620 4620FED8-51D8-4DDC-BDB9-0D02571A55F3 Ghoria sinotibetica Dubatolov, Kishida & Wang, 2012 ( Figs 11, 12 , 24–26 , 35 ) Ghoria sinotibetica Dubatolov, Kishida & Wang, 2012 , Tinea 22 (2): 104, figs 2, 5 ( Type locality: China , Sichuan , Ludin , Moxi , 2700 m ). Type material examined . Photographs of the holotype ( Fig. 26 ): male, China , Sichuan , Ludin , Moxi , 2700 m , 18- 19. vii. 2009 , Y. Kishida leg., preparation in sugar by Dubatolov (Coll. SZMN , later to be deposited in SCAU ) . FIGURES 9–16. Ghoria spp., adults. Specimens are deposited in MWM/ZSM. FIGURES 17–19. Ghoria nanlingica sspp., male genitalia. Depositories of specimens: 17 – MWM/ZSM; 18 – ASV; 19 – SZMN (photo by V.V. Dubatolov). Additional material examined . 7 males , 3 females , China , NW Sichuan , Daxue Shan Mts. , Gongga Shan , NW Moxi , 29°41’N, 101°58’E, 14–19.VII.1999 , leg. Sinyaev & Plutenko , slides ZSM Arct. 2019-953, 2020-055, 2020- 056 (males), 2020-057 (female) ( Coll. MWM / ZSM ) ; 1 male , 3 females , China , W Sichuan , Yaan / Kangding , Erlang Shan Mt. , H- 2000m , N29°87.340’’ E102°30.970 ’’, 08.VII.2019 , Butvila & Saldaitis ( Colls AFM & ASV ) ; 1 male , 1 female , China , W Sichuan , Yaan / Kangding , Erlang Shan Mt. , H- 2100m , N29°51 . E102°18, 12 .vii.2009, I.[ Irene ] & A.[ Alessandro ] Floriani, A. [ Aidas ] Saldaitis leg. ( Coll. AFM ) ; 1 male , China , W Sichuan , Yaan / Kangding , Erlang Shan Mt. , H- 2161m , N29°87.340’’ E102°30.970 ’’, 12–13. VI .2015, Floriani & Saldaitis ( Coll. AFM ) . Remark . Dubatolov et al. (2012b) did not illustrate the vesica structure of G. sinotibetica . However, we dissected a few of topotypical males (collected in the same gorge as the type series) and all of them have the constant valva shape, the aedeagus size as well as the size and shape of spines in aedeagus vesica ( Figs 24, 25 ) identical to those of the holotype ( Fig. 26 ). Diagnosis . Forewing length is 17–18 mm in males (17.5 mm in the holotype ) and 18.5 mm in females. The species ( Figs 11, 12 ) is similar externally to G. mubupa sp. n. ( Figs 13, 14 ) and G. synnefo sp. n. ( Figs 15, 16 ), but differs from G. mubupa sp. n. by its slightly paler male hindwing and monotonous dark grey female hindwing (that of G. mubupa sp. n. is whitish) and from G. synnefo sp. n. by its slightly smaller size and pale yellow edge of forewing costa (that is bright yellow in G. synnefo sp. n. ). The male genital capsule of G. sinotibetica ( Figs 24–26 ) is very similar to that of the externally dissimilar G. longivesica ( Figs 22, 23 ), but the aedeagus of G. sinotibetica is conspicuously shorter and narrower, the vesica is ca. 2.5 times shorter than that of G. longivesica and lacks a subbasal diverticulum, the subbasal chamber of vesica is shorter and bearing the broader field of small cornuti, and the distal diverticulum bears conspicuously smaller spines. The female genitalia of G. sinotibetica ( Figs 35 ) differ clearly from those of other related species ( Figs 32–34, 36–38 ) by the very short ductus bursae and the left-positioned signum bursae. Distribution . The species is known from northwestern Sichuan Province of China only.