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Issue: Vol. 4664 No. 3: 4 Sept. 2019
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2019-09-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4664.3.12
Page range: 445–450
Abstract views: 78
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Barsine wangi, a new species from Guangdong, southern China (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
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, Guangdong, China
Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, SB RAS, Frunze str. 11, RF-630091, Novosibirsk, Russia
Kitazawa 5-20-1-103, Setagaya, Tokyo, 155-0031, Japan
Lepidoptera Erebidae Arctiinae

Abstract

Barsine Walker, 1854 is a large genus of lichen moths (family Erebidae, subfamily Arctiinae, tribe Lithosiini) including about a hundred of valid species and widespread in Oriental tropics, mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and the southern part of the Russian Far East. During the studies of Lithosiini materials recently collected in the Chinese Province of Guangdong, we found one more, yet undescribed Barsine species. It is related to the recently described B. cacharensis Singh & Kirti, 2016 by the male and female genitalia structure, but externally it is more similar to B. defecta Walker, 1854 and B. gratissima (de Joannis, 1930). The species is described below as new.

 

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