A review of the Barsine inflexa Moore, 1878 and the B. flavodiscalis (Talbot, 1926) species-groups, with descriptions of six new species from Indochina, India and China (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae)
Author
Volynkin, Anton V.
Author
Černý, Karel
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-09-12
4668
4
543
561
journal article
25464
10.11646/zootaxa.4668.4.7
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1175-5326
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Barsine victoria
Volynkin & Černý
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs 5–8
,
34, 35
,
46, 47
)
Type material.
Holotype
(
Figs 5
,
34
): ♁, “[
Myanmar
,
Chin State
] Burma,
Mt.Victoria
,
Pakokku
Chin
Hills.
2,200m
.
15–30.VI.1938
. (
G. Heinrich
).” / “Brit. Mus. 1938-689.” / “
NHMUK010606265
”, slide
NHMUK010315203
Volynkin (Coll.
NHMUK
).
Paratypes
.
MYANMAR
: 2 ♁,
2 ♀
, same data as in the
holotype
, slide
NHMUK010315811
(
♀
)
Volynkin
(
Coll.
NHMUK
); 4 ♁,
1 ♀
, [
Myanmar
,
Kachin State
]
Upper
Burma:
Htawgaw.
6000 ft.
Capt.
A.E. Swann
, slide
NHMUK010315810
(♁)
Volynkin
(
Coll.
NHMUK
); 1 ♁, [
Myanmar
,
Kachin State
]
Upper
Burma:
Hpimaw. Fort
,
Nr. Myitkyina
,
8000 ft.
Capt.
A.E. Swann
(Coll.
NHMUK
); 1 ♁, [
Myanmar
,
Kachin State
] NE Burma, Kambaiti,
7000 ft.
,
16.
VI
.1934,
R. Malaise
, slide
NHMUK010315202
(
Coll.
NHMUK
)
;
1 ♀
, same locality and collector, but
19.
VI
.1934 (
Coll.
NHMUK
); 1 ♁, same locality and collector, but
20.
VI
.1934 (
Coll.
NHMUK
)
;
INDIA
: 1 ♁,
Cherrapunji
,
July 1893
(
Coll.
NHMUK
); 4 ♁,
1 ♀
,
Khasis
,
Nat. Coll.
, slides
NHMUK010315774
(♁)
and
NHMUK010315779
(
♀
)
Volynkin
(
Coll.
NHMUK
); 2 ♁,
Khasis
,
April 1894
,
Nat. Coll.
(
Coll.
NHMUK
); 1 ♁,
Khasis
,
May 1894
,
Nat. Coll.
(
Coll.
NHMUK
); 1 ♁,
Khasis
,
Aug. 1894
,
Nat. Coll.
(
Coll.
NHMUK
); 1 ♁,
Khasis
,
Sep. 1894
,
Nat. Coll.
(
Coll.
NHMUK
); 3 ♁,
Khasia Hills
,
Assam
,
Nissary
(
Coll.
NHMUK
);
1 ♀
,
Khasis
,
5000 ft.
, Shillong,
25.IX
,1927,
Fletcher
coll. (Coll.
NHMUK
)
.
FIGURES 1–8.
Barsine
spp.: adults. 1,
B. inflexa
, ♁, NE India (©NHMUK); 2,
B. inflexa
, ♁, E Nepal (MWM/ZSM); 3,
B. inflexa
, ♀, NE India (©NHMUK); 4,
B. kanchenjunga
, holotype ♁, NE India (MWM/ZSM); 5,
B. victoria
, holotype ♁, NW Myanmar (©NHMUK); 6,
B. victoria
, paratype ♁, NE India (©NHMUK); 7,
B. victoria
, paratype ♀, NW Myanmar (©NH- MUK); 8,
B. victoria
, paratype ♀, NE India (©NHMUK).
Diagnosis
. Forewing length is
10.5–11.5 mm
in males and
12.5–13.5 mm
in females.
Barsine victoria
can be separated from its closest relative
B. inflexa
by its slightly narrower forewing and thinner transverse lines and costal margin edge. In the male genitalia,
B. victoria
differs from
B. inflexa
by its uncus being much less broadened basally (that is discoid in
B. inflexa
), much smaller distal costal process situated on the valva apex, broader medial costal process, slightly larger distal saccular process, slightly shorter aedeagus, the presence of a cluster of cornuti on the subbasal diverticulum, the presence of the ventral medial diverticulum, and smaller distal diverticulum. The female genitalia of
B. victoria
can be distinguished from those of
B. inflexa
by their weaker spinulose scobination of corpus bursae and much smaller appendix bursae.
Distribution
. North East
India
(
Meghalaya
) (
Hampson 1900
, as
B. inflexa
) and North
Myanmar
(
Chin
and
Kachin
States).
Etymology.
The species name refers to its
type
locality, vicinities of Mount Victoria in North West
Myanmar
.