Review of the bicolora Fang and binghami Hampson species-groups of the genus Ovipennis Hampson with descriptions of five new species from Southwestern China and Indochina (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiini)
Author
Huang, Si-Yao
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China
Author
Volynkin, Anton V.
Altai State University, Lenina Avenue, 61, RF- 656049, Barnaul, Russia
Author
Černý, Karel
Tiergartenstrasse 27, A- 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Author
Li, Zhi-Hong
Administration bureau of Taiyanghe Natural Reserve, Chachen Road, 48, Pu’er 665000, Yunnan, China
Author
Saldaitis, Aidas
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China & Nature Research Centre, Akademijos str., 2, LT- 08412, Vilnius- 21, Lithuania & Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-01-16
5399
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540
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.8
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5399.5.4
1175-5326
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Ovipennis bicolora
Fang, 1986
(
Figs 1–3
,
16
,
24
,
33, 34
)
Ovipennis bicolora
Fang, 1986: 178
, fig. 1;
Fang 2000: 140
, pl. IV, fig. 1;
Volynkin
et al.
2019: 72
.
Ovipennis binghami
[
nec
Hampson, 1903
]:
Fang, 2000: 140
, pl. IV, fig. 2
Type material examined.
Holotype
(
Fig. 1
): male, handwritten and printed white label “
ƃnjĖAEẬẤdz
[
Sichuan
,
Mt. Emei
,
Qingyinge
] |
1979. VI. 16
|
ϕ⁂Lj‡※
[
Chinese Academy of Science
]” / handwritten and printed white label “
1979.VI.16
|
ẌÄƁ:
Hffffi
[leg.
Jiu-wei Bai
]” / white printed label “♁” / red printed label “
HOLOTYPE
” / blue printed label “IOZ (E) 208897” / handwritten and printed label “
Ovipennis bicolora
Fang
|
ṘẼƁ:ẀḴŘ
[
Identifier
:
Cheng-lai Fang
]” (
IZCAS
).
Additional material examined
:
CHINA
:
2 males
,
20.
VI
.2021,
Sichuan
,
Mt. Emei
,
Qingyingge
,
Si-Yao Huang
leg., unique numbers: LTS5 & LTS6 (
CHSY
)
;
1 female
,
18.
VI
. 2021,
Sichuan
,
Mt. Emei
, road from
Wuxiangang
to
Qingyinge
,
Si-Yao Huang
leg., unique number: LTS7 (
CHSY
)
;
1 female
,
19.
VI
.2021,
Sichuan
,
Mt. Emei
, road from
Wuxiangang
to
Hongchunping
,
Si-Yao Huang
leg., unique number: LTS8 (
CHSY
)
;
1 female
,
21.
VI
.1957,
Sichuan
,
Mt. Emei
,
Qingyinge
,
800–1000m
,
Fu-xing Zhu
leg., unique number: IOZ (E) 470198 (
IZCAS
)
;
3 females
,
12.
VI
.1957,
Sichuan
,
Mt. Emei
,
600 m
,
Ping Gao
leg., unique numbers: IOZ (E) 470204–470206 (
IZCAS
)
.
Diagnosis.
The forewing length is 8.0 mm in males and 10.0 mm in females.
Ovipennis bicolora
is similar in appearance only to
O. regina
sp. n.
and the detailed comparison is provided below in the diagnosis of the new species. The genitalia of both sexes of
O. bicolora
are most reminiscent of
O. hanae
sp. n.
and the detailed comparison is provided below in the diagnosis of the latter species.
Distribution.
Currently known only from its
type
locality in
Sichuan Province
, western
China
(
Fig. 38
).
Remarks.
The record of
Ovipennis binghami
from
Sichuan
(
Fang 2000
) is based on the misidentification of the female of
O. bicolora
.