Letrasilta cernyi ( Volynkin, 2018 ) Huang & Volynkin & Yin & Zhang & Fan & Pan & Wang, 2023

Huang, Si-Yao, Volynkin, Anton V., Yin, Xiong-Yan, Zhang, Yu-Long, Fan, Xiao-Ling, Pan, Zhao-Hui & Wang, Min, 2023, Letrasilta, a new genus for the Striatella cernyi Volynkin species-group with description of a new species from Xizang, China, and a replacement name for the genus group name Striatella Volynkin & S. - Y. Huang, 2019 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), Zootaxa 5315 (3), pp. 251-263 : 262

Letrasilta cernyi ( Volynkin, 2018) comb. n.

Figs. 4–6 , 17, 18 , 24

Barsine cernyi Volynkin, 2018 , Far Eastern Entomologist, 358: 14, figs 15, 16, 28, 39.

Type locality: “ Myanmar (Burma), 50 km E Putao, env. Nan Thi village , 950m ” ( Volynkin 2018) .

Type material examined. Holotype: male, Myanmar (Burma), 50 km E Putao, env. Nan Thi village , 950 m, 11– 16.V.1998, leg. Murzin & Sinjaev, slide ZSM Arct. 151/2017³ Volynkin (Coll. MWM / ZSM) . Paratypes: 1 male, 1 female, same data as in the holotype, slide ZSM Arct. 08/2017 ♀ Volynkin (Coll. MWM / ZSM) .

Additional material examined. INDIA: male, [Meghalaya, Khasi Hills] Khasis, Nat. Coll, Doncaster private coll. Purch. 1927, slide AV6468³ Volynkin (Coll. OUMNH) .

Diagnosis. The forewing length is 10 mm in males and 11 mm in the female. The detailed comparison of L. cernyi and L. ratnasambhava sp. n. is provided above under the diagnosis of the new species.

Distribution. Northern Myanmar (Kachin State) and Northeast India (Meghalaya, new country record).

Figures

FIGURES 2–11.Adults of Letrasilta spp. and the type species of the genera Striatochrista nom. n. and Aberrasine. Depositories of the specimens: 2 and 3 in TAAHU; 4, 5, 7 and 9 in MWM/ZSM; 6 in OUMNH; 8 in CKC; 10, 11 in SCAU.

FIGURES 16–19. Male genitalia of Letrasilta spp. and the type species of the genus Striatochrista nom. n. Depositories of the slides: 16 in TAAHU, 17 and 19 in MWM/ZSM, 18 in OUMNH.

FIGURES 23–28. Female genitalia of Letrasilta spp. and the type species of the genera Striatochrista nom. n., Aberrasine, Indiania, and Idopterum. Depositories of the slides: 23 in TAAHU, 24, 25 and 28 in MWM/ZSM, 26 and 27 in SCAU.