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Issue: Vol. 4658 No. 1: 21 Aug. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-08-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4658.1.7
Page range: 155–167
Abstract views: 83
PDF downloaded: 5

On the correct identification of ‘Cyana dohertyi (Elwes, 1890)’ from northern Indochina and China, with descriptions of two new species and a new subspecies (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae)

Altai State University, Lenina Avenue, 61, RF-656049, Barnaul, Russia. National Research Tomsk State University, Lenina Avenue, 36, RF-634050, Tomsk, Russia
Tiergartenstrasse 27, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Nature Research Centre, Akademijos str., 2, LT-08412, Vilnius-21, Lithuania.
Altai State University, Lenina Avenue, 61, RF-656049, Barnaul, Russia.
China Lithosiini Thailand Vietnam Asia new species new subspecies Lepidoptera

Abstract

Two new species similar to Cyana dohertyi (Elwes, 1890), C. lada Volynkin, Černý & Saldaitis, sp. nov. (Vietnam and China) and C. titovi Volynkin, Černý & Ivanova, sp. nov. (Vietnam) are described. A new subspecies C. dohertyi mertsana Volynkin & Černý, ssp. nov. is described from North Thailand and North Vietnam. Adults, male and female genitalia of the new and related species are illustrated.

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