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Issue: Vol. 4394 No. 1: 13 Mar. 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-03-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.12
Page range: 147–150
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Miltochrista wangmini, a new species from China (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae)

Altai State University, 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.
Kitazawa 5-20-1-103, Setagaya, Tokyo, 155-0031, Japan
Kitazawa 5-20-1-103, Setagaya, Tokyo, 155-0031, Japan
Lepidoptera Erebidae Arctiinae

Abstract

Miltochrista Hübner, [1819] is one of largest genera of lichen-moths (family Erebidae, subfamily Arctiinae, tribe Lithosiini) including more than 160 valid species, widely distributed in Oriental and Palearctic Regions. For a long time, the genus was treated in a wide sense. Holloway (2001) treated Miltochrista as a small group of species close to the type species of the genus Noctua rubicunda [Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775 (a junior synonym of Miltochrista miniata (J.R. Forster, 1771)), whereas the majority of other Palaearctic and Oriental Miltochrista-like species was assigned to the genera Lyclene Moore in Horsfield & Moore, [1860] and Barsine Walker, 1854. Kirti & Singh (2016) synonymized Lyclene with Miltochrista and at present the genus is treated in wide sense. Nevertheless, Miltochrista in its modern treatment is a heterogeneous group, the status of Lyclene and some other species-groups with significantly different male and female genital structures is unclear, and the generic/subgeneric structure of Miltochrista sensu lato is under revision by Volynkin & Dubatolov (in prep.).

 

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