A new species and two species records of genus Barsaurea from India (Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini)
Author
Singh, Santosh
0000-0001-5727-3075
Department of Zoology & Environmental Sciences, Punjabi University, Patiala, 147002, Punjab, India Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700053, West Bengal, India & bishtsantosh 20 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5727 - 3075
bishtsantosh20@gmail.com
Author
Kirti, Jagbir Singh
0000-0002-9670-5931
Department of Zoology & Environmental Sciences, Punjabi University, Patiala, 147002, Punjab, India Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700053, West Bengal, India & prjagbir 2005 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9670 - 5931
prjagbir2005@gmail.com
Author
Singh, Navneet
0000-0002-6657-7983
nsgill 007 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6657 - 7983
nsgill007@gmail.com
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-07-11
5315
4
349
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5315.4.5
journal article
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Barsaurea apatani
S. Singh, Kirti, & N. Singh
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs 1
,
6
)
Holotype
:
Ô,
India
,
Arunachal Pradesh
:
Ziro
(
27.534755N
,
93.820389E
,
1599 m
),
3.v.2018
,
Santosh Singh
leg. (13475/H10).
Diagnosis:
Forewing length
15mm
in male.
Barsaurea apatani
sp. nov.
(
Fig.1
)closely resembles
B.phaeoxanthia
in its colouration and forewing markings but is distinct by the grey colour of head and vertex, brownish frons, greyish collar and patagia and darker forewing markings covering the marginal area, whereas in
B. phaeoxanthia
(
Figs. 2, 3
), the head, vertex, frons, collar, patagia and marginal area of forewing are yellowish. In male genitalia of
B. apatani
(
Fig. 6
), the uncus is shorter and more dilated subapically; the valva is shorter, broader and almost rectangular and the vesica with two diverticula, each with a cluster of strong cornuti apically, whereas in the male genitalia of
B. phaeoxanthia
(
Fig. 7
), the uncus is longer and subapically less dilated, the valva is long and narrower at apex and the vesica bears a single cluster of 1–3 cornuti apically.
Distribution:
So far known from its
type
locality only.
Etymology:
The name of this species is derived from the local tribe ‘Apatani’ that inhabits the
type
locality of the species.