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Issue: Vol. 5374 No. 3: 17 Nov. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-11-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5374.3.4
Page range: 390-408
Abstract views: 141
PDF downloaded: 19

Taxonomic review of the Oriental genus Gandhara Moore with descriptions of four new species (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini)

Altai State University; Lenina Avenue; 61; RF-656049; Barnaul; Russia
Tiergartenstrasse 27; A-6020 Innsbruck; Austria
Department of Entomology; College of Plant Protection; South China Agricultural University; Guangzhou; 510642; Guangdong; China
Jiangxi Jiulianshan National Nature Reserve Management Bureau; Longnan Jiangxi 341700; China
Lepidoptera lectotype Lithosiini new combination type species

Abstract

The genus Gandhara Moore, 1878 is reviewed. Four new species are described: Gandhara typica Volynkin & Černý, sp. n. (Nepal, northeast India, northern Myanmar and northern Thailand), Gandhara clava Volynkin & Černý, sp. n. (Laos and northern Thailand), Gandhara emgai Volynkin & Černý, sp. n. (northern Vietnam), and Gandhara interrogativa Volynkin, Černý, S.-Y. Huang & H.-L. Hu, sp. n. (northern Vietnam and southern China). Gandhara typica sp. n. is fixed as the type species of the genus Gandhara whereas Lithosia serva Walker, 1854 considered by authors as the type species of Gandhara by misidentification is transferred to the genus Collita Moore, 1878. Two new combinations are introduced: Gandhara conica (Fang, 2000), comb. n. and Collita serva (Walker, 1854), comb. n. A lectotype is designated for Lithosia serva Walker, 1854 in order to stabilise the nomenclature. Adults as well as male and female genitalia are illustrated.

 

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