Paraheliosia elegans ( Reich 1937 ) Reich, 1937

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 : 374

Paraheliosia elegans ( Reich 1937) , comb. nov.

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[ Asura ] elegans Reich, 1937: 121 –122. Type locality: China, Zhejiang, ‘West-Tien-Mu-shan’.

Heliosia elegans: Daniel, 1952: 90 , Taf. II, Fig. 40; Fang, 1992: 227; Fang, 2000: 182, Pl. V, Fig. 19 .

Type material examined. Holotype: ♂, CHINA: ZHEJIANG: West Tien-Mu-Shan, Prov Chekiang [now—Zhejiang], 3.ix.1932, H. Höne lgt. ( ZFMK).

Material examined. CHINA: GUANGDONG: 2 ♂, 1 ♀, Nanling, Shaoguan, 5–6.viii.2005, Y. Kishida lgt. ( ISEA).

Description. Forewings dark yellow with two oblique bands: proximal consists of three brownish spots, distal—of three slightly curved streaks; along the outer margin there are three double pairs of spots; an outer space of the proximal band is brownish darkened in hind half. Hindwing entirely yellow.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 13 ): Aedeagus apex with two strong spines: one transversal and one longitudinal.

Remarks. The type species is well separated from other species of the genus by an absence of wide dark pattern on forewings.

Distribution. China: Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang (Fang, 2000), Guangdong (new record).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 6. Heliosia types (1, 3, 5) and their labels (2, 4, 6). 1 – 2 — Heliosia punctinigra van Eecke, 1920, syntype, female, Indonesia, Java, Batavia (now—Jakarta); 3 – 4 — Heliosia punctata Fang, 1992, paratype, male, China, Sichuan, Emeishan; 5 – 6 — Paraheliosia elegans (Reich, 1937), holotype, male, China, Zhejiang, West Tien Mu Shan.

FIGURES 17 – 19. Male genitalia of Paraheliosia gen. nov. (17 – 18) and Heliosia punctata Fang, 1992 (19). 17 — Paraheliosia novirufa (Fang, 1992) (from Fang, 1992); 18 — Paraheliosia novirufa (Fang, 1992) (from Fang, 2000); 19 — Heliosia punctata Fang, 1992 (from Fang, 2000).

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.