On the taxonomic status of the genus Hypeugoa Leech with description of a new species of Miltochrista Hübner from Thailand (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae Lithosiini)
Author
Volynkin, Anton V.
Altai State University, Lenina Avenue, 61, RF- 656049, Barnaul, Russia
Author
Černý, Karel
Tiergartenstrasse 27, A- 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-08-19
5023
3
421
432
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5023.3.6
1175-5326
5226287
E791C3F5-6372-41B9-B84D-F23C6404A429
Stigmatophora
(
Stigmatophora
)
flavogrisea
(
Leech, 1899
)
,
comb. nov.
(
Figs 7, 8
,
19
)
Hypeugoa flavogrisea
Leech, 1899
,
Transactions of the
Entomological Society of London
, 1899 (1): 190 (
Type
locality: [SW
China
,
Sichuan
,
N of Kangding
] “to the north of Ta-chien-lu ...
Western
China
”).
Type material examined
.
Holotype
(by monotypy) (
Fig. 7
): male, “N. of Ta-chen-lu” / “
Hypeugoa flavogrisea
type
♂
. Leech.” /red ring “Type”label /“Leech Coll.1900-64.”/ QR-code label with unique number“
NHMUK010598613
” (
NHMUK
).
Additional material examined
.
CHINA
:
1 male
, [SE
Gansu
,
Lixian, SW
Qinling Mts
]
Kansu
mer. or.,
Lihsien
,
Peilingschan
mer.,
3000m
,
July
/
Collection Daniel
, gen. prep.
No.
:
ZSM
Arct. 2020-216 (prepared by
Volynkin
) (MWM/
ZSM
)
.
Diagnosis
.
The forewing length is
18–19.5 mm
in males. The species (
Figs 7, 8
) superficially differs from
S. orientalis
(
Figs 1–6
) in the creamy head and collar (those are intensely suffused with grey scales in
S. orientalis
) and the markedly paler subbasal and subterminal areas of the forewing. The male genital capsule of
S. flavogrisea
(
Fig. 19
) differs from that of
S. orientalis
(
Figs 17, 18
) in the wider valva (the width to length ratio is 1:2.6 vs.1:
2.8 in
S. orientalis
) with the somewhat more convex costal margin, the less elongate harpe, the somewhat thinner medial crest of the valva and the more curved distal saccular process. The phallus of
S. flavogrisea
is somewhat more curved medially than that of
S. orientalis
. The vesica of
S. flavogrisea
is similar to that of
S. orientalis
but the distal diverticula are broader and separated from each other whereas in
S. orientalis
they originate from the common base.
Female unknown.
Distribution
. Known from western
China
(
Sichuan
and
Gansu
Provinces) (
Leech 1899
;
Daniel 1951
).