First records of five species of the genus Cyana Walker, 1854 from Myanmar (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae)
Author
Spitsyn, V. M.
text
Russian Entomological Journal
2022
2022-06-30
31
2
188
190
http://dx.doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.31.2.17
journal article
10.15298/rusentj.31.2.17
0132-8069
13179284
Cyana interrogationis
(Poujade, 1886)
Fig. 4
.
MATERIAL EXAMINED.
2♂
,
1♀
Myanmar
,
Kachin State
,
Malaria village
,
Dry
monsoon forests with rhododendron wastelands,
27°34´26´´N
,
97°22´29´´E
,
15.03.2014
,
Bolotov
,
Spitsyn
leg.
DISTRIBUTION.
China
(
Jiangsu
,
Zhejiang
,
Jiangxi
,
Hubei
,
Hunan
,
Fujian
,
Guangxi
,
Hainan
,
Sichuan
,
Guangdong
);
Thailand
;
Vietnam
[
Fang, 2000
;
Dubatolov et al., 2012
];
Laos
[
Bucsek, 2020
] and
Myanmar
(present study).
REMARKS. First record from
Myanmar
.
Cyana selangorica paeninsulana
Černý, 2009
Fig. 5
.
MATERIAL EXAMINED.
1♂
Myanmar
,
Kachin State
,
Malaria village
,
Dry
monsoon forests with rhododendron wastelands,
27°34´26´´N
,
97°22´29´´E
,
15.03.2014
,
Bolotov
,
Spitsyn
leg.
;
1♂
Myanmar
,
Rakhine State
, mountain tropical forest,
17°35´08´´N
,
94°39´50´´E
,
02.12.2018
,
V
.
Spitsyn
leg.
;
2♂
Myanmar
,
Rakhine State
, disturbed tropical forest,
18°37´17´´N
,
94°22´02´´E
,
05.12.2018
,
Spitsyn
leg.
;
1♂
Laos
,
Vientiane Province
,
Phatang village
, mountain bamboo forest,
19°04´55´´N
,
102°26´11´´E
, 23–
28.04.2016
,
V
.
Spitsyn
leg.
DISTRIBUTION. North East
India
(
Assam
and
Mizoram
),
Myanmar
(Tenasserim,
Rakhine
,
Kachin
) [
Singh et al., 2020
; present study] and South
Thailand
(Provinces of
Chumphon
,
Ranong
and Nakhon Si Tammarat) [
Černý, Pinratana, 2009
] and
Laos
(present study).
REMARKS. First records from northern
Myanmar
and
Laos
. The nominate subspecies distributed in Sundaland: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula and Borneo [
Holloway, 2001
;
Bucsek, 2012
].
Acknowledgements
.
This
study was partly supported by the
Russian Ministry of Science
and
Higher Education
(project
No.
FUUW-2022-0039).
We
are grateful to the late
Dr. Tony Whitten
(
Fauna
&
Flora International
–
Asia-Pacific
, UK),
Mr. Frank Momberg
(
Director
for
Program Development
and
Asia-Pacific Program Director of Fauna
&
Flora International
,
UK
),
Mr. Mark Grindley, Mr.
Zau Lunn, and
Mr. Nyein Chan
(
Fauna
&
Flora International
– Myanmar
Program
,
Myanmar
) for their great help during this study.
Our
research has been performed under the survey permission
No.
5/6000/ LFR(210/2018) dated on
23 January 2018
issued by the
Ministry of Agriculture
, Livestock and Irrigation of Myanmar
and the export permission
No.
NWCD
/
CITES/9
/5666/ 2018 dated on
28 June 2018
issued by the
Forest Department
of the
Ministry of Environmental Conservation
and
Forestry
of
Myanmar
.