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Issue: Vol. 4238 No. 3: 6 Mar. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-03-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.3.12
Page range: 445–450
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Two new species of Miltochrista from India (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) 

Department of Agriculture, Baba Farid College, Bathinda - 151001, Punjab, India.
Zoological Survey of India, Gangetic Plains Regional Centre, Sector–8, Bahadurpur Housing Colony, Patna-800 026, Bihar, India.
Department of Zoology and Environmental sciences, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India.
Altai State University, South Siberian Botanical Garden, Lenina str. 61, RF-656049, Barnaul, Russia; Tomsk State University, Institute of Biology, Ecology, Soil Science, Agriculture and Forestry, Lenina Avenue, 36, RF-634050, Tomsk, Russia.
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Zoology, Dúbravská cesta 9, 845 06, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
Lepidoptera Lithosiini Nudariina Taxonomy new species new combination new status

Abstract

Two new species, Miltochrista quadra Joshi, Singh & Volynkin, sp. nov. and Miltochrista pseudomodesta Joshi, Singh & Volynkin, sp. nov., of tribe Lithosiini (Erebidae: Arctiinae) are described from India. In addition, two species are restored from the synonymy and transferred to Miltochrista: Miltochrista rubricans (Leech, 1890), stat. & comb. nov. and Miltochrista szetschwanica (Daniel, 1952), stat. & comb. nov. Other new combinations are also proposed as Miltochrista aquila (Černý, 2009), comb. nov., Miltochrista discisigna (Moore, 1878), comb. nov., Miltochrista weidenhofferi (Černý, 2012), comb. nov., Miltochrista unipuncta (Leech, 1890), comb. nov., Miltochrista carnea (Poujade, 1886), comb.nov. and Miltochrista modesta (Leech, 1899), comb. nov.

 

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