Paraheliosia rufa ussuriensis ( O. Bang-Haas 1927 ) O. Bang-Haas, 1927

Dubatolov, Vladimir V., Kishida, Yasunori & Wu, Chunsheng, 2014, Review of East Asian Heliosia (Ledidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini) species, with description of a new genus, Zootaxa 3802 (3), pp. 373-380 : 376

Paraheliosia rufa ussuriensis ( O. Bang-Haas 1927) , comb. nov.

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Miltochrista rufa ussurinesis O. Bang-Haas, 1927: 115 . Type locality: Russia, Primorskiy Kray, “Ussuri mer.: Sutschansk” [=Partizansk].

Type material examined. Syntype: 1 ♀, RUSSIA: PRIMORSKIY KRAY: Sutschanski-Rudnik [now—Partizansk town], Wladiwistock occ. Ussuri viii (Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany).

Material examined. RUSSIA: PRIMORSKIY KRAY: Kirovskiy District: 1 ♂, 20 km East from Kirovskiy, Ussuri riv. valley, 15-18.vii.2002, Kruger, Saldaitis & Schot lgt. ( WMM); Spasskiy District: 1 ♀, Spasskiy District, Novovladimirovka, vii.1965, V.P. Barbash lgt. ( ISEA); Yakovlevskiy District: 4 ♀, Yakovlevka, 15–19.vii.1981, P. Ustjuzhanin lgt. ( ISEA); Ussuriyskiy District: 1 ♀, Suputinskiy (now—Ussuriiskiy) Nature Reserve, 12.vii.1964, N. G. Kolomiets lgt. ( ISEA); 1 ♀, 20 km SE of Ussuriysk, Gornotayozhnoe, arboretum, 14.vii.1982, M.V. Kozlov lgt. ( ZIN); Partizanskiy District: 4 ♀, Sutshanskiy Mine [now—Partizansk], 19.vii. [no year], Dolgikh lgt. ( ZIN), 22.vi.1912, Kazantseva lgt. ( ZIN), 15.vii.1931, 23.viii.1934, Palshkov lgt. ( ZIN); 1 ♂, Sutschan [=Partizansk], 4.viii.1948, A. Tsvetaev lgt. ( ZIN); Khasanskiy District: 1 ♀, 7 km N of Zanadvorovka, 23.vii.1998, Dubatolov, Streltzov, Malikova & Vanicheva lgt. ( ISEA); 1 ♀, Kedrovaya Pad’ Nature Reserve, 3.viii.1968, N.P. Korolevskaya lgt. ( ISEA).

Description. Dark grey pattern of wings strongly widened; ground colour dark yellow with a strong rose tint at costal margin. Forewing proximal band consists of an oval spot in central cell, large oval spot between this cell and vein A, and an entirely dark space between vein A and wing hind margin, except of a dark yellow basal 1/4. Outer 1/3 part of forewing entirely dark except of narrow rose strokes along veins at wing apex and a dark yellow fringe. Hindwing dark yellow with wide brownish outer margin and light darkenings at wing base and along anal veins. Fringe also dark yellow.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 14 ): Aedeagus apex with a single strong spine.

Remarks. By the wing pattern, the subspecies from Russia differs from the nominotypical one by a wider dark margin on hindwings that is noticeably extended towards the tornal angle, while in the nominotypical subspecies from North China the dark margin is strongly constricted towards the tornal angle. Differences in number of the strong spines on aedeagus apex (two in nominotypical subspecies and one in P. r. ussuriensis ) should be verified on additional material from China.

Distribution. Russia: southern districts of Primorskiy Kray north to Kirovskii ( Dubatolov et al., 1993; Dubatolov, 2010); probably, occurs in neighboring parts of Korea and North-Eastern China.

Figures

FIGURES 7 – 14. Lithosiinae moths (7 – 9, 11), their labels (10) and male genitalia (12 – 14). 7 — Paraheliosia rufa (Leech, 1890), male, China, Gansu, Kang Xian; 8 — Paraheliosia rufa ussuriensis (O. Bang-Haas, 1927), male, Russia, Primorskiy Kray, 20 km E from Kirovskiy; 9 – 10 — Paraheliosia novirufa (Fang, 1992), holotype, male (9), China, Zhejiang, Zhoushan, and its labels (10); 11, 12 — Nudina artaxidia (Butler, 1881), male, Russia, Blagoveshchensk; 13 — Paraheliosia elegans (Reich, 1937), holotype, China, Zhejiang, West Tien Mu Shan; 14 — Paraheliosia rufa ussuriensis (O. Bang-Haas, 1927), Russia, Primorskiy Kray, 20 km E from Kirovskiy.