Diduga albicosta Hampson, 1891

Bayarsaikhan, Ulziijargal, Li, Houhun, Im, Kyung-Hoan & Bae, Yang-Seop, 2020, Four new and three newly recorded species of Diduga Moore, [1887] (Lepidoptera Erebidae, Arctiinae) from China, Zootaxa 4751 (2), pp. 357-368 : 363-364

Diduga albicosta Hampson, 1891

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Diduga albicosta Hampson, 1891 , Ill. Typical Spec. Lep. Het. Colln. Br. Mus. 8: 5, 53, pl. 140: 17. TL: India (Nilgiris). Androstigma albicosta: Hampson, 1893 , Ill. Typical Spec. Lep. Het. Colln. Br. Mus. 9: 82, pl. 158, f. 25.

Material examined. China: 2♂, Bubang , Mengla County, Yunnan Province, 650m, 22.VIII.2005 (leg. Yingdang Ren), Gen. Slide No. INU˗10089 China, 10095 China; 1♂, Xishuangbanna Botanic Garden , Yunnan Province, 550m, 15.III.2014 (leg. Zhenguo Zhang), Gen. Slide No. INU˗10096 China, Bayarsaikhan (Coll. NKU).

Distribution. China, India ( Kirti & Singh 2015), Sri Lanka ( Moore [1887]), Thailand ( Černý & Pinratana 2009), Cambodia ( Bayarsaikhan et al. 2018), Peninsular Malaysia ( Bucsek 2012).

Remarks. This species is newly recorded in China.

Figures

FIGURES 5˗7. Adults of newly recorded Diduga from China (Coll. of NKU). 5. D. albicosta, male (INU˗10096China). 6. D. nigridentata, male (INU˗10090China). 7a. D. hanoiensis, male (INU˗10088China). 7b. ditto, female (INU˗10098China).