Witteulisna, a new genus for a new species from North Vietnam (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini)
Author
Volynkin, Anton V.
Altai State University, Lenina Av. 61, RF- 656049, Barnaul, Russia. E-mail: monstruncusarctia @ gmail. com & National Research Tomsk State University, Lenina Av., 36, RF- 634050, Tomsk, Russia
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Ecologica Montenegrina
2020
2020-12-12
38
127
130
http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2020.38.16
journal article
10.37828/em.2020.38.16
2336-9744
13232721
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:90A457F5-5F77-4766-A8D8-704CF08193E5
Witteulisna paraxena
Volynkin
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs 1
,
5
)
Type material
.
Holotype
(
Figs 1
,
5
): male, “
Vietnam
, Prov. Vinh Phu,
Tam Dao
,
60 km
NW
Hanoi
,
950– 1200m
,
23°34’N
,
105°20’O
[E], Juni [June], 1994, Sinajev [Sinyaev] &
Simonov
leg.”, gen. slide
No.
: MWM 35984 (prepared by
Volynkin
) (MWM/
ZSM
).
Paratypes
:
4 males
, the same data as the holotype
;
1 male
, Tam Dao,
Tonkin
(
A. Duport
) (MWM/
ZSM
)
.
Diagnosis and description
: see under the genus.
Distribution
. The new species is only known from North
Vietnam
(
Vĩnh Phúc Province
).
Etymology
. ‘Paraxenos’ is a Latin transliteration of the Greek word ‘παράξενος’ meaning ‘strange’. The specific epithet refers to the peculiar structure of its aedeagus.