Asuridia Hampson, 1900

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 : 25

Genus Asuridia Hampson, 1900

( Figs 31, 32 , 120 , 176 )

Asuridia Hampson, 1900 , Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum 2: 412 (Type species:

Ammatho carnipicta Butler, 1877 , by original designation).

Diagnosis. Small moths with reddish colouration and black pattern. The male genital capsule of Asuridia is most similar to that of Ammatho , but is characterised by the densely setose medial costal process and sacculus. In aedeagus vesica, the large hook-like curved membranous diverticulum is characteristic. Female genitalia are dissimilar to those of Ammatho and resemble those of Barsochrista due to the appendix bursae originating from the anterior section of corpus bursae, but in Asuridia that is weakly scobinated and directed anteriorly. In addition, for female genitalia of Asuridia the following features are characteristic: (1) the antevaginal plate is large and strongly rugose (absent in Barsochrista and Ammatho ); (2) the ductus bursae is asymmetrically sclerotised (dissimilar to Barsochrista and Ammatho , but this feature is represent in Barsura also).

Distribution. Himalaya, Mainland China, Taiwan and northern Indochina.

Number of species. The genus comprises 11 valid species. Species distributed in New Guinea and surrounding islands formerly treated as members of Asuridia by de Vos (2019) are obviously unrelated to Asuridia in fact and provisionally transferred here to the genus Integrivalvia .

Figures

Figures 31–46. Type species of genera and subgenera of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex: adults. Depositories of specimens: 31, 32 – NHMUK; 33–46 – MWM/ZSM.

Figures 120–123. Type species of genera and subgenera of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex: male genitalia.

Figures 174–181. Type species of genera and subgenera of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex: female genitalia.