Aberrasine, Volynkin & Huang, 2019

Volynkin, Anton V., Huang, Si-Yao & Ivanova, Maria S., 2019, An overview of genera and subgenera of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae). Part 1. Barsine Walker, 1854 sensu lato, Asura Walker, 1854 and related genera, with descriptions of twenty new genera, ten new subgenera and a check list of taxa of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex, Ecologica Montenegrina 26, pp. 14-92 : 67

Genus Aberrasine Volynkin & Huang, gen. nov.

https://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:299CCF0E-887A-4D24-8BC2-93B3FF735B70 ( Figs 102, 103 , 158, 159 , 211 )

Type species: Miltochrista aberrans Butler, 1877 .

Etymology. The new genus’ name is a combination of its type species’ name aberrans and the generic name Barsine . Gender feminine.

Diagnosis. Small moths with red or orange colouration and thin black ‘miltochristoid’ pattern. In earlier modern papers, members of the genus were considered to be belonging to the genera Barsine ( Dubatolov et al. 2012; Hsu et al. 2018; Volynkin 2018a) and Miltochrista ( Černý 2016) as it combines some features common for both, Barsine s. l. and Miltochrista . The male genitalia of the genus are characterised by the combination of the following features: (1) the presence of a strong medial dorsal protrusion of costa, which may be short and round or large and apically pointed as well ( Fig. 159 ) (a similar protrusion is also known in the genus Sarbine only); (2) the presence of a robust distal costal process; (3) the absence of a medial costal process; (4) the presence of a distal membranous lobe of valva; (5) the setose dorsal surface of sacculus; (6) the large and heavily sclerotised distal saccular process, which may be unilobate or bilobate; (7) the sack-like aedeagus vesica having several short diverticula, fields of granulations and clusters of short and stout ‘barsinoid’ cornuti or robust spinules. The female genitalia of Aberrasine are most similar to those of Wittasura due to the scobinated corpus bursae and the appendix bursae being curved basally, directed anteriorly and having a heavily sclerotised basal section and a scobinated distal section, but differ by the absence of an antrum, which is well-developed in Wittasura .

Distribution. The genus is widespread in eastern Palaearctic including Russian Far East and Japan, and in northern and central Indochina.

Number of species. The genus comprises 14 valid species and one subspecies.

Figures

Figures 82–103. Type species of genera and subgenera of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex: adults. Depositories of specimens: 82, 84, 85, 90–93, 98, 99 – NHMUK; 83, 88, 89, 97, 100, 101 – MWM/ZSM; 86, 87, 94, 95 – CKC; 96, 102, 103 – ZFMK.

Figures 156–159. Members of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex: male genitalia. 156–158 – type species of genera.

Figures 205–211. Type species of genera of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex: female genitalia.