Churingosia, a new subgenus of the genus Manulea Wallengren with descriptions of four new species from the Oriental realm (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae)
Author
Volynkin, Anton V.
Altai State University, Lenina Avenue, 61, RF- 656049, Barnaul, Russia.
Author
Černý, Karel
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Tiergartenstrasse 27, A- 6020 Innsbruck, Austria. natura. cerny @ aon. at; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7207 - 2255 Corresponding author. monstruncusarctia @ gmail. com
natura.cerny@aon.at
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Manulea
(
Churingosia
)
nigripes
(
Hampson, 1900
)
,
comb. n.
(
Figs 11, 12
,
22
,
31
)
Ilema nigripes
Hampson, 1900
,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum
, 2: 175, pl. 23: fig. 6 (
Type
locality: [NE
India
,
Meghalaya
,
Khasi Hills
] “
Assam
,
Khásis
”).
Type material examined
.
Lectotype
(
hereby designated
) (
Fig.11
):male,“Khasis|
May 1896
.|Nat.Coll.”/ “nigripes | type
♂
. Hmpsn” / “97-164.” / red ring “Type” label / QR-code label with unique number: “
NHMUK010401840
” (
NHMUK
).
Additional material examined
.
INDIA
:
1 male
, Khasis,
May 1896
, Nat. Coll. /
Ilema nigripes Hmps
/
Lithosia
auriflava Moore / Doncaster private coll. Purch. 1927, gen. prep. No.:
AV
6491 (prepared by Volynkin) (
OUMNH
);
1 female
, Khasis,
Mar. 1897
, Nat. Coll. / 684 / Rothschild Bequest
B
.
M
. 1939-1, unique number:
NHMUK
010292059, gen. prep. No.:
NHMUK
010317776 (prepared by Volynkin) (
NHMUK
).
Note
.
In
the original description of
Ilema nigripes
,
Hampson (1900)
mentioned
one male
and
one female
from “
Assam
, Khásis” as “type”.
In
order to stabilise the nomenclature we hereby designate the male specimen from
Khasis
labelled as “Type” and preserved in the
NHMUK
collection as
lectotype
.
Diagnosis
. The forewing length is 19.5–20.0 mm in males and 21.0 mm in female.
Manulea nigripes
is the largest species in the group. The differences from the morphologically most similar
M. mikrotera
sp. n.
are discussed below in the diagnosis of the latter species.
Distribution
. Northeast
India
:
Meghalaya
(
Hampson 1900
). The record from
Thailand
(
Černý & Pinratana 2009
) belongs
M. mavropoda
sp. n
.
The record from Sikkim (
Hampson 1900
) requires clarification and probably belongs to
M. mikrotera
sp. n
.