A review of the Barsine obsoleta species-group with description of a new species from Vietnam (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae)
Author
Volynkin, Anton V.
Author
Černý, Karel
text
Zootaxa
2017
4254
2
188
200
journal article
33239
10.11646/zootaxa.4254.2.2
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Barsine obsoleta
species-group
Members of the group are medium-sized moths with very different wing coloration, but similar male genitalia structure. We include to the group species having the following characteristic features of the male genitalia (
Figs. 19–22
): 1) the distal saccular process without a dorsal lobe (whereas all other known
Barsine
species except
Barsine striata
(
Bremer & Grey, 1853
)
(
Figs. 17, 18
,
23
,
30
) have a dorsal lobe of distal saccular process); 2) 1st medial diverticulum of vesica is long and curved; 3) 2nd medial diverticulum is bilobate, its main lobe is broad and covered with strong short cornuti of different size, and the additional lobe is smaller, conical, with strong scobination. Despite the similarity of the male genital capsules of
B. striata
and the
B. obsoleta
species-group due to absence of a dorsal lobe of the distal saccular process, the male genital structures of the
B. obsoleta
speciesgroup are well separated from those of
B. striata
in the much narrower uncus, the broader apical lobe of valva, and especially the vesica configuration.
The
Barsine obsoleta
species-group includes the three known species reviewed below.