Barsine kanchenjunga Volynkin & Černý, 2019

Volynkin, Anton V. & Černý, Karel, 2019, A review of the Barsine inflexa Moore, 1878 and the B. flavodiscalis (Talbot, 1926) species-groups, with descriptions of six new species from Indochina, India and China (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), Zootaxa 4668 (4), pp. 543-561 : 547

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.4.7

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5930078

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5AFE141B-C1DA-4487-9380-3FA9B6A1DB49

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:5AFE141B-C1DA-4487-9380-3FA9B6A1DB49

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scientific name

Barsine kanchenjunga Volynkin & Černý
status

sp. nov.

Barsine kanchenjunga Volynkin & Černý View in CoL , sp. nov.

( Figs 4 View FIGURES 1–8 , 33 View FIGURES 32–35 )

Type material. Holotype ( Figs 4 View FIGURES 1–8 , 33 View FIGURES 32–35 ): ♁, [NE India] “ Sikkim, Mt. Kanchenjunga Himal , 27°30’N, 88°20’E, 2600 m, 9–10.VIII.1995, leg, Afonin & Sinajev”, slide MWM 33583 Volynkin (Coll. MWM / ZSM). GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Forewing length is 13.5 mm in males. Barsine kanchenjunga differs externally from the related B. inflexa and B. victoria by its larger size, broader forewing with more elongated apex, postmedial line being angled opposite the cell (in B. inflexa and B. victoria that is W-like curved opposite the cell), less enlarged connection of antemedial and medial lines, and pale ochreous hindwing (whereas in B. inflexa and B. victoria hindwings have pinkish suffusion). The male genitalia of B. kanchenjunga resemble those of B. victoria , but differ by the medial part of uncus being straight (that is evenly curved in B. victoria ), longer and broader tegumen, less curved costa, longer medial costal process, distal costal process situated more dorsally, smaller distal membranous lobe of valva, narrower and longer sacculus, longer and much narrower distal saccular process, less curved aedeagus, larger subbasal diverticulum of vesica bearing broader cluster of smaller cornuti surrounded by granulation (in B. victoria the subbasal diverticulum bears a compact cluster of more robust cornuti), smaller cornuti on the medial diverticulum, the absence of a ventral medial diverticulum, the presence of the medial area of granulation, and the larger distal diverticulum bearing longer cluster of more robust cornuti basally and medially.

The female is unknown.

Distribution. The species is known only from its type locality, Mount Kanchenjunga in the Indian State of Sikkim.

Etymology. The species name refers to its type locality, Mount Kanchenjunga.

ZSM

Bavarian State Collection of Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Barsine

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