On the taxonomy of the genus Miltochrista Hübner with descriptions of five new species from India and China and notes on the genus Arctelene Kirti & Gill (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini)
Author
Volynkin, Anton V.
Altai State University, Lenina Avenue, 61, RF- 656049, Barnaul, Russia.
Author
Huang, Si-Yao
0000-0002-9859-9212
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China. E-mail: huangsiyao 2007 @ aliyun. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9859 - 9212 * Corresponding author. E-mail: monstruncusarctia @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9447 - 4925
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Ecologica Montenegrina
2022
2022-11-15
58
86
108
http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2022.58.9
journal article
10.37828/em.2022.58.9
2336-9744
13240006
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EC827EB4
Miltochrista hollowai
Kirti & Gill, 2009
(
Figs 22
,
50
)
Miltochrista hollowai
Kirti & Gill, 2009
,
Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia
, 52B (1–2): 112, figs 19–26 (p. 115) (
Type
locality: “
India
:
Gujarat
:
Saputara
,
970 m
”).
Material examined
.
INDIA
:
1 male
, [India,
Maharashtra
, Mumbai]
Bombay
, 60-7, unique number:
NHMUK010604718
,
gen. prep. No.:
NHMUK010314223
(prepared by Volynkin)
(
NHMUK
).
Diagnosis
. The forewing length is 10.5–11.0 mm in males.
Miltochrista hollowai
is externally similar to
A. rubricosa
but distinguished by the more curved medial line. The male genitalia of the species are similar to the
M. pseudoarcuata
–
M. paraarcuata
species pair (illustrated by
Kirti & Singh 2016
) but differ in the markedly broader and rounded distal section of the costa, and the smaller medial spur of the distal saccular process. The detailed comparison with
M. curvifascia
is provided above in the diagnosis of the latter species.
The female is unknown.
Distribution
. Western
India
(
Gujarat
,
Maharashtra
) (
Kirti & Gill 2009
).