Revision of the Barsine cardinalis - anomala ' species-complex' (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae)
Author
Volynkin, Anton V.
Author
Černý, Karel
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-11-30
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4358.3.3
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Barsine longstriga
(
Fang, 1991
)
(
Figs. 7–9
,
28
,
40
)
Miltochrista longstriga
Fang, 1991
,
Sinozoologia
8
(5): 390, 396, fig. 7 (Type locality: [China] "Qinling, Shaanxi").
Type
material examined
.
Photograph of the
holotype
(
Fig. 7
): white label "
Miltochrista longstriga
Fang
" / red label "
Holotype
" / white label in Chinese / white label in Chinese with date "1979.
VII.30
" / white label "[slide] L- 0049" / blue label "IOZ(E) 208634" / white label "
♂
" (Coll.
IZCAS
).
Other
material examined.
1 ♂
,
5 ♀
, [
Sichuan
]
Kwanhsien
,
China
,
VII.1930
,
G.M. Franck
[leg.] (
Coll.
NHMUK
)
;
1 ♀
, same locality and collector, but
18.VII.
[19]30 (
Coll.
NHMUK
)
;
2 ♂
, [
Sichuan
]
Kwanhsien
, W
China
,
15 and 29.VII.
[19]26,
G.M. Franck
[leg.] (
Coll.
NHMUK
)
;
1 ♂
, Kwanhsien, Szechwan [
Sichuan
], W
China
,
17.VII.
[19]26
G.M. Franck
[leg.] (
Coll.
NHMUK
)
;
1 ♂
,
3 ♀
,
Kwanhsien
, West
China
,
24.VII.–1.VIII.
[19]26,
G.M. Franck
[leg.] (
Coll.
NHMUK
)
.
Diagnosis
. Length of forewing is
11–12 mm
in males and
13–14 mm
in females. The species differs clearly from other members of the
B. cardinalis
–
anomala
'species-complex' in the paler ground colour of forewing, the basally broader longitudinal blackish strip, presence of the strong blackish suffusion on forewing veins, and dark brown forewing cilia (
Figs. 7–9
). The male genitalia (
Fig. 28
) are characterized by the large rounded distal lobe of valva, presence of the small claw-like medial costal process, the small trigonal distal costal process directed dorsally, the robust, long, dorsally curved and apically pointed distal saccular process well separated from the distal section of valva, and presence of fields of small and more or less spine-like cornuti in the vesica; the female genitalia (
Fig. 40
) differ clearly from other species in the large, ovoid, weakly sclerotized corpus bursae with a weak rugose sclerotization posteriorly and without any signa, scobination or granulation.
FIGURES 1–9.
Barsine
spp.: adults. 1,
B. cardinalis cardinalis
, holotype ♂, Sikkim (©NHMUK); 2,
B. cardinalis cardinalis
, holotype ♂ of
Miltochrista erubescens
, Khasis
(©NHMUK); 3,
B. cardinalis cardinalis
, ♂, Khasis (©NHMUK); 4,
B. cardinalis cardinalis
, ♀, Khasis (©NHMUK); 5,
B. cardinalis gemina
, holotype ♂, N Thailand, Chiang Mai prov. (NHMUK, ex coll. CAV); 6,
B. cardinalis gemina
, paratype ♀, N Thailand, Chiang Mai prov. (CAV); 7,
B. longstriga
, holotype ♂, China, Shaanxi prov., Qinling (IZCAS); 8,
B. longstriga
, ♂, China, Sichuan, Kwanhsien (©NHMUK); 9,
B. longstriga
, ♀, China, Sichuan, Kwanhsien (©NHMUK).
FIGURES 10–17.
Barsine
spp.: adults. 10,
B. pseudocardinalis
, holotype ♂, N Thailand, Chiang Mai prov. (MWM/ZSM); 11,
B. pseudocardinalis
, paratype ♀, N Thailand, Lampang prov. (CKC); 12,
B. pseudocardinalis
, paratype ♂, C Vietnam, Kon Tum prov. (CAV); 13,
B. pseudocardinalis
, paratype ♀, C Vietnam, Kon Tum prov. (CAV); 14,
B. anomala
, ♂, Sikkim (©NHMUK); 15,
B. anomala
, holotype ♀, Sikkim (©NHMUK); 16,
B. fansipana
, holotype ♂, N Vietnam, Fan-si-pan Mts. (MWM/ZSM); 17,
B. fansipana
, paratype ♀, N Vietnam, Fan-si-pan Mts. (MWM/ZSM).
Distribution
. Central and South
China
(
Shaanxi
,
Hubei
,
Hunan
,
Sichuan
,
Yunnan
,
Guangdong
) (
Fang 1991
,
2000
;
Dubatolov
et al.
2012
). The report of
B. longstriga
for
India
(
Kirti & Singh 2016
) belongs to
B. anomala
.