On the taxonomy of the genera Planovalvata Dubatolov & Kishida, Stigmatophora Staudinger and Pseudomiltochrista Dubatolov & Bucsek, with description of one new species (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiini)
Author
Volynkin, Anton V.
Author
Dubatolov, Vladimir V.
Author
Kishida, Yasunori
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-03-13
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128
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journal article
30531
10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.7
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1175-5326
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Genus
Planovalvata
Dubatolov & Kishida, 2012
Planovalvata
Dubatolov & Kishida in Dubatolov, Kishida & Wang
,
Tinea
22
(1): 39.
Type species:
Planovalvata confusa
Volynkin, Dubatolov & Kishida
,
sp. nov.
(=
Stigmatophora roseivena
sensu
Dubatolov
et al.
(2012)
, neC
Hampson (1894))
.
Taxonomic note.
In the original description,
Dubatolov & Kishida (Dubatolov
et al.
2012)
attributed the genus to "the series of
Miltochrista
-like genera" (
Asura
/
Miltochrista
complex by
Holloway 2001
), but according to the male genitalia structure (entire distal section of valve with a longitudinal zone of costally directed strong setae), it is related to the genus
Eugoa
Walker, [1858] and not to the
Asura
/
Miltochrista
complex. At present the genus
Eugoa
includes several groups of species with significantly different genital structures and some of them probably could be erected into separated genera. The generic/subgeneric structure of this group will be revised later by the authors.
Diagnosis.
Small moths with yellow forewing ground color and pattern consisting of red strokes on veins and along the costal margin. In the male genitalia,
Planovalvata
has the following apomorphic differences from the typical
Eugoa
(the type species
Eugoa aequalis
(Walker, [1858]) was illustrated by
Holloway (2001)
and
Durante (2012))
: 1) uncus is long, narrow and laterally flattened (whereas in
Eugoa
the uncus is short, dorso-ventrally spatula-like broadened); 2) tegumen without paratergal sclerites and dentate penicular lobes (whereas in
Eugoa
s. str. the tegumen with rounded paratergal sclerites and large irregularly dentate penicular lobes); 3) vinculum is very short (whereas in
Eugoa
the vinculum is longer); 4) distal part of the costal margin of valve is irregularly dentate (whereas in
Eugoa
the costal margin of valve is smooth). Female unknown.