A review of the Barsine perpallida-B. yuennanensis species-group, with descriptions of six new species (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) Author Volynkin, Anton V. Altai State University, Lenina Av., 61, RF- 656049, Barnaul, Russia; e-mails: volynkin _ a @ mail. ru, barsine @ yahoo. com & National Research Tomsk State University, Lenina Av., 36, RF- 634050, Tomsk, Russia Author Černý, Karel Tiergartenstrasse 27, A- 6020 Innsbruck, Austria; e-mail: natura. cerny @ aon. at Author Huang, Si-yao Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China; text Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 2019 2019-07-03 59 1 273 293 journal article 8126 10.2478/aemnp-2019-0022 b19250d7-2550-4b65-b129-ebc226232461 1804-6487 4488964 D95019E7-AA94-4E21-964E-DFF57E9EF272 Barsine perpallida ( Hampson, 1900 ) ( Figs 5–7 , 34, 35 , 49 ) Miltochrista perpallida Hampson, 1900:495 , pl. 32, fig. 22 (replacement name for Korawa pallida Moore, 1878 ). = Korawa pallida Moore, 1878: 12 (original description). Type locality: “Darjiling” [= NE India , north of West Bengal , Darjeeling]). Junior secondary homonym of Calligena pallida Bremer, 1864 , currently placed in Miltochrista . = Diacrisia porthesioides Rothschild, 1910: 186 (original description). New junior subjective synonym. Type locality:[NE India ], “ Sikkim ” Type material examined. Korawa pallida . SYNTYPES ( Figs 5, 6 ): 1 ♂, “Darjiling [Darjeeling] / 1866” (handwritten) // “ Korawa / pallida ♂ / (type) Moore” (handwritten) // “Moore Coll. / 94–106” (printed) // round printed label with a red circle “Type” / printed label with QRcode “NHMUK010604654” ( NHMUK ); 1 ♀ , “Darjiling [Darjeeling] / (at light) / May [18]64” (handwritten) // “ Korawa / pallida ♀ / (type) Moore” (handwritten) // “Moore Coll. / 94–106” (printed) / printed label with QR-code “NHMUK010604655” ( NHMUK ); 1 ♂, “Darjiling [Darjeeling] / 1864” (handwritten) // “coll. Atkinson” (printed) // “Coll. / Staudinger” (printed) ( ZMB ). Diacrisia porthesioides : SYNTYPES ( Figs 6 , 49 ): 1♀ , “ Sikkim (printed) / 6.5.89 (handwritten) / J.G. Pilcher” (printed) // pink handwritten label “ Diacrisia / porthesioides / Rothsch. Type” // printed label “Rothschild / Bequest / B.M. 1939-1.” // printed label “Rothschild / Bequest / B.M. 1939-1.” // round printed label with a red circle “Type” // printed label with QR-code “NHMUK010918008” ( NHMUK ); 1 ♀ , “ Sikkim (printed) / 29.4.89 (handwritten) / J.G. Pilcher” (printed) // printed label “Rothschild / Bequest / B.M. 1939-1.” // printed label with QR-code “NHMUK010918009” ( NHMUK ); 1♀ , “ Sikkim (printed) / 10.5.89 (handwritten) / J.G. Pilcher” (printed) // printed label “Rothschild / Bequest / B.M. 1939-1.” // printed label with QR-code “NHMUK010918100”, slide NHMUK010315755 Volynkin ( NHMUK ). Other material examined. INDIA : WEST BENGAL: 1♂, Darjeeling.July, 1886.H.J.Elwes./ Collectio H.J. Elwes / Rothschild Bequest B.M.1939-1. / NHMUK010604657, slide BMNH(E) Arct. 4665♂ ( NHMUK ); 2 ♀♀ , Darjeeling, Ex coll. Lidderdale ( NHMUK ); 1 ♀ , Darjeeling, 1864, slide BMNH(E) Arct. 4666♂ ( NHMUK ); 1 ♀ , Darjeeling, 26.VIII.1886 , H.J. Elwes ( NHMUK ); 1 ♀ , Darjeeling (at light) May [18]64 ( NHMUK ); 2 ♀♀ , Darjeeling, Dr.Lidderdale, 19–54 ( NHMUK ). NEPAL : 1♂, Nepal, Prov. Nr.3 East, Jubing, 1600 m , 6.v.1994 , leg.W.Dierl, slide ZSM Arct. 230/2017♂ Volynkin ( ZSM ). CHINA : XIZANG : 1♂ 1♀ , 24.v.2018 , altitude 2450 m , Cuona County, Shannan Prefecture, Tibet , leg. Tian-peng Chen, preparations in glycerol by Huang ( SCAU ). Diagnosis. Forewing length is 16.0–19.5 mm in males and 21.0–22.5 mm in females. Externally, the species ( Figs 5–7 ) differs from the patternless form of B. biformis ( Figs 3, 4 ) in its larger size and paler forewing ground color; B. perpallida also resembles B. hololeuca and B. flavicollis , but differs from B. hololeuca ( Fig. 8 ) in its pale ochreous patagia, slightly darker forewing ground color and ciliate male antennae (shortly bipectinate in B. hololeuca ); from B. flavicollis ( Fig. 9 ) it differs in its slightly darker forewing ground color and ciliate male antennae (shortly bipectinate in B. flavicollis ). The male genitalia of B. perpallida ( Figs 34, 35 ) differ from those of B. hololeuca ( Fig. 36 ) and B. flavicollis ( Fig. 37 ) in their smaller juxta, distally broadened valva with a large distal costal process, trigonal medial costal process directed distally, much longer basal saccular process, and different configuration of diverticula of vesica. The female genitalia of B. perpallida ( Fig. 49 ) differ from those of B. biformis ( Fig. 48 ) in significantly narrower ductus bursae, smaller corpus bursae without signa and scobination, and longer appendix bursae. Figs 33–35. Barsine spp., male genitalia. 33 – B. biformis sp. nov. , holotype, Thailand, slide MWM 31351 Volynkin. 34–35 – B. perpallida ( Hampson, 1900 ) : 34 – Nepal, slide ZSM Arct. 230/2017 Volynkin; 35 – China, Xizang, prep. Huang. Remarks. This species was considered by HAMPSON (1900) to be a member of the genus Miltochrista , and the name M. perpallida was introduced as a replacement for the name M. pallida Moore, 1878 , which was a junior secondary homonym of Miltochrista pallida ( Bremer, 1864 ) . According to the article 59.3 of ICZN (1999) , the name M. pallida Moore is permanently invalid as it was replaced before 1961 and the name M. perpallida was in use after its introduction ( HAMPSON 1914 ; STRAND 1922 ; FANG 1991 , 2000 ; SINGH et al. 2014 ; ČERNÝ & PINRATANA 2009 ). Diacrisia porthesioides was described on the base of female syntypes from Sikkim ( ROTHSCHILD 1910 ). Examination of their genitalia proved their conspecificity with B. perpallida . Distribution. North East India ( Sikkim , north of West Bengal ), East Nepal (Solukhumbu Distr.), China ( Xizang ). The records for Yunnan ( FANG 1991 , 2000 ) need confirmation.