Two new species of the subgenus Cryptanaema de Vos of the genus Cyana Walker from eastern Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini Nudariina)
Author
Volynkin, Anton V.
Altai State University, Lenina Avenue, 61, RF- 656049, Barnaul, Russia.
Author
Černý, Karel
Tiergartenstrasse 27, A- 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Author
Vos, Rob De
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-08-24
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journal article
129870
10.11646/zootaxa.5178.1.5
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Subgenus
Cryptanaema
de
Vos, 2017
Cyana
(
Cryptanaema
) de
Vos, 2017
,
Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New
Guinea
, 3: 597.
Type
species:
Chionaema nigroplagata
Bethune-Baker, 1910
, by original designation.
Diagnosis
. Species of the subgenus have a cryptic colouration with the dominance of brown, grey and creamy white whereas most species of other subgenera of
Cyana
display aposematic red or yellow patterns on a white ground colour or (in the subgenus
Clerckia
Aurivillius, 1882
) an aposematic combination of black and various shades of orange, red and yellow. In the male genitalia, vesica bearing clusters of numerous short but robust triangular cornuti which is characteristic of the subgenus, a feature similar to such
Nudariina
genera as
Barsine
Walker, 1854
,
Ammatho
Walker, 1855
, etc. (illustrated by
Volynkin
et al.
(2019))
. In the female genitalia, the posterior section of the corpus bursae is strongly dilated and rugose sclerotised.