Review of the Prabhasa Moore, 1878 genus-group (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae)
Author
Dubatolov, Vladimir V.
Author
Volynkin, Anton V.
Author
Kishida, Yasunori
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-04-11
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Prabhasa
Moore, 1878
Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London
1878
: 25–26.
Type species:
Prabhasa venosa
Moore, 1878
, by subsequent designation (
Hampson 1894
).
Ilema (Prabhasa)
:
Hampson 1900
: 138.
Eilema
:
Strand 1922
: 592
.
Description.
Wing shape of the typical
Eilema
habitus, male has tufted androconial fold along the basal half of costal Vein.
Male genitalia:
uncus bifid, cucullus and sacculus distally with narrow processes; ValVe Ventral edge conVeX, with a setose fold in its basal half; aedeagus thin, Vesica membranous, short, thin.
Female genitalia:
ductus bursae weakly sclerotized, dorso-Ventrally flattened, its anterior section membranous; corpus bursae elliptical, membranous, with a large round signum posteriorly.
Remarks. 1.
Černý & Pinratana (2009) combined
Prabhasa
and
Zadadra
Moore, 1878
species in one genus; this is not correct: uncus is bifid in
Prabhasa
, but simple and narrow in
Zadadra
(
Fig. 30
);
Prabhasa
has a setose Ventral fold of sacculus (on the figure 24 it is pressed aboVe costa), whereas no fold is Visible in
Zadadra
species (see:
Fang 2000
: 240–244; Kirti & Singh 2015: 129–131); howeVer, some other characters, like cucullus and sacculus apices are similar; in any case, these genera are closely related. ReVision of the genus
Zadadra
will be published later by the authors. Here we treat
Prabhasa
as a probably monotypic genus. All other taXa preViously included to
Prabhasa
belong to different genera.
2.
Specimens from
China
treated by authors (Daniel 1954;
Fang 2000
;
DubatoloV & Zolotuhin 2011
; DubatoloV
et al.
2012) as
Prabhasa venosa
belong to “
Prabhasa
”
costalis
Moore,
1878
in fact. It is not congeneric with
Prabhasa venosa
and belongs to another, yet undescribed genus, which is described below as
Chinasa
DubatoloV, Volynkin & Kishida
,
gen.
nov. 3.
Specimens from
Thailand
treated by Černý & Pinratana (2009) as
Prabhasa venosa
belong to the new species described below as
Macohasa cernyi
DubatoloV, Volynkin & Kishida
,
sp. nov.
, which is closely related to
Macotasa orientalis
(
Hampson, 1905
)
and
Macotasa dimorpha
(
Hampson, 1918
)
. All three species haVe the male genitalia clearly different from
Macotasa
Moore, 1878
,
Prabhasa
and
Zadadra
and belong to the new genus, which is described below as
Macohasa
DubatoloV, Volynkin & Kishida
,
gen.
nov. 4.
Judging the male genitalia structure,
Prabhasa plumbeomicans
(
Hampson, 1894
)
(illustrated by
DubatoloV & Zolotuhin (2011)
and Kirti & Singh (2015)), belongs to the genus
Zadadra
, therefore the new combination is established here:
Zadadra plumbeomicans
(
Hampson, 1894
)
,
comb.
nov.
5.
The male genitalia structure of
Prabhasa monastyrskyi
DubatoloV, 2012 (see DubatoloV 2012: fig. 5) is more similar to that of
Zadadra
species, but, howeVer, differs by the robust, bulb-like, strongly setose distal saccular process, and presence of a robust cornutus in Vesica. Here we proVisionally place this species in the genus
Zadadra
:
Zadadra monastyrskyi
(DubatoloV, 2012)
,
comb.
nov. 6.
There are seVeral species described or included in
Prabhasa
, but their male genitalia are quite different either from
Prabhasa
or from
Zadara
,
Chinasa
and
Macohasa
. Their generic placement will be more carefully scrutinized later by the authors of the present paper in the forthcoming reVision of the genus
Zadadra
.