A review of the Barsine hypoprepioides (Walker, 1862) species-group, with descriptions of fifteen new species and a new subspecies (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae)
Author
Volynkin, Anton V.
Author
Černý, Karel
Author
Huang, Si-Yao
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-06-17
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Barsine subzebrina
Volynkin & Černý, 2018
(
Figs 7–9
,
153
,
223
)
Barsine subzebrina
Volynkin & Černý, 2018
,
Zootaxa
,
4402
(2): 341, figs 6–12, 31–34, 43 (
Type
locality: “
Nepal
, Annapurna Himal, valley of Kali
Gandaki
,
1300 m
, near Tatopani”).
Type material examined
.
Holotype
(
Figs 7
,
153
):
♂
,
Nepal
,
Annapurna Himal
, valley of
Kali
Gandaki
,
1300 m
,
near Tatopani,
83°39’E
,
28°29’N
,
20.VI.1996
, leg. Gy. M. László & G. Ronkay, slide MWM 33545 Volynkin (Coll. MWM/
ZSM
);
Paratypes
:
76 ♂
and
28 ♀
from
Nepal, India
and
Myanmar
listed by
Volynkin & Černý (2018b)
(Colls MWM/
ZSM
,
CKC
)
.
Diagnosis
. The species significantly varies in size (forewing length is
9–11 mm
in males and
10–12 mm
in females).
B. subzebrina
has no significant external differences from its closest relative
B. zebrina
and can be separated from it by the genitalia structures. The male genitalia of
B. subzebrina
are similar to those of
B. zebrina
, but differ by the larger medial costal process, narrower distal costal process with much longer apico-lateral projection, narrower basal lobe of sacculus with evenly curved dorsal margin armed with larger dens, whereas in
B. zebrina
the medial costal process is smaller, the distal costal process is broader and has much smaller or absent apico-lateral projection, the basal lobe of sacculus is larger, trigonal, armed with smaller dens. The female genitalia of the two species are very similar, but in
B. subzebrina
the postvaginal plate is narrower, V-like, and the antrum has a deep concavity, whereas in
B. zebrina
the postvaginal plate is significantly broader, more or less T-like, and the antrum has no concavity.
Distribution
.
Bhutan
(
Hampson 1900
, as
zebrina
), Central and Eeast
Nepal
, NE
India
(
Sikkim
,
Meghalaya
), North
Myanmar
(
Kachin
) (
Volynkin & Černý 2018b
).