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Issue: Vol. 5104 No. 4: 1 Mar. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-03-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5104.4.5
Page range: 557-566
Abstract views: 298
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Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Barsine Walker, 1854 from Xizang, China with description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini)

Tibet Plateau Institute of Biology, Lhasa 850001, Xizang Autonomous Prefecture, China.
Altai State University, Lenina Avenue, 61, RF-656049, Barnaul, Russia.
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China.
Tibet Plateau Institute of Biology, Lhasa 850001, Xizang Autonomous Prefecture, China.
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China.
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China.
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China.
Lepidoptera Asura/Miltochrista complex Himalaya Indochina lichen moth new species Nudariina taxonomy

Abstract

New information of the genus Barsine Walker, 1854 from Xizang Autonomous Prefecture, China is provided. A new species related to Barsine defecta Walker, 1854, B. gratissima (de Joannis, 1930), B. germana (Rothschild, 1913) and B. kirata Volynkin & N. Singh, 2020 is described from Chayu County of Southeastern Xizang: Barsine mahakala S.-Y. Huang & Volynkin sp. n. Barsine germana (Rothschild, 1913) and B. atypicobarsine N. Singh, Kirti & Joshi, 2016 are newly recorded from China, with the female of the latter described and illustrated for the first time. Adults and genitalia of the aforementioned taxa are illustrated.

 

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