A review of the subgenus Delineatia Volynkin & Huang, 2019 of the genus Ammatho Walker, 1855, with descriptions of two new species from Taiwan and Vietnam (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiini)
Author
Volynkin, Anton V.
Altai State University, Lenina Avenue, 61, RF- 656049, Barnaul, Russia. & National Research Tomsk State University, Lenina Avenue, 36, RF- 634050, Tomsk, Russia
Author
Wu, Shipher
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, No. 128, Sec. 2, Academia Rd., Nangang Dist., Taipei City 11529, Taiwan. shipher @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2264 - 7238
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-06-18
4801
2
237
250
journal article
21639
10.11646/zootaxa.4801.2.2
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1175-5326
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Subgenus
Delineatia
Volynkin & Huang, 2019
Ammatho
(
Delineatia
) Volynkin & Huang
in
Volynkin, Huang & Ivanova, 2019
,
Ecologica
Montenegrina
26
: 21, figs 15, 16, 111, 167 (
Type
species:
Hypoprepia delineata
Walker, 1854
, by the original designation).
Diagnosis
. Medium-sized moths with red colouration and blackish pattern. Externally, members of the subgenus are similar to species of the subgenus
Conicornuta
Volynkin, 2019
of the genus
Ammatho
. Male genitalia of the subgenus are characterised by the combination of the following features: (1) the densely serrulate anellus; (2) the small medial costal process at very long and narrow, lobe-like base (an autapomorphic feature); (3) the very large and heavily sclerotised distal costal process bearing several denticles or short prominences; (4) the very small distal membranous lobe of valva; (5) the strongly setose sacculus; (6) the narrow vesica with short diverticula bearing clusters of very small spine-like cornuti or granulation. Female genitalia structure is typical for the genus
Ammatho
and is characterised by (1) the presence of a well-developed postvaginal plate; (2) the cup-like or funnel-like antrum and the very short anterior membranous section of corpus bursae; (3) the weakly scobinated posterior section of corpus bursae; (4) the membranous anterior section of corpus bursae lacking signa.
Distribution
. The subgenus is distributed in Indochina, mainland
China
and the island of
Taiwan
.