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Issue: Vol. 5399 No. 1: 10 Jan. 2024
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2024-01-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.1.9
Page range: 97-100
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Description of Prozorovia, a new genus from Pakistan and India (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini)

N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Nikolsky ave.; 20; 163020; Arkhangelsk; Russia
Lepidoptera lichen moths Wittia Eilema group biodiversity Oriental region

Abstract

The genus Wittia de Freina, 1980 was described for Bombyx aureola Hübner, [1803] (a junior synonym of Wittia sororcula (Hufnagel, 1766)), which in the modern sense is a paraphyletic taxon containing three groups of species. This study (1) describes a new genus, Prozorovia gen. nov., for three Indian species belonging to the genus Wittia previously; (2) describes the female of Prozorovia kailashi (Singh & Kirti, 2016) comb. nov. for the first time (this species was described based on two males); (3) reports on the first record of P. kailashi comb. nov. from Pakistan; and (4) illustrates the male external morphology and the male genitalia of P. kailashi comb. nov.

 

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