Cyana (Cornutivulpecula) rejecta rejecta ( Walker, 1854 )

Volynkin, Anton V. & László, Gyula M., 2020, Review of the Cyana rejecta (Walker, 1854) species-group, with descriptions of three new species from mainland Africa and a new subspecies from Madagascar (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiini), Zootaxa 4890 (3), pp. 330-346 : 332-333

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4890.3.2

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4329761

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Cyana (Cornutivulpecula) rejecta rejecta ( Walker, 1854 )
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Cyana (Cornutivulpecula) rejecta rejecta ( Walker, 1854) View in CoL

( Figs 1–4 View FIGURES 1–10 , 27 View FIGURES 27–29 , 39 View FIGURES 39–43 )

Setina rejecta Walker, 1854 , List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 2: 521 (Type locality: not provided in the original description [Natal]).

= Lithosia bipunctigera Wallengren, 1860 , Wiener entomologische Monatsschrift 4 (2): 45 (Type locality: [ South Africa, Eastern Cape Province] “ Caffraria ”).

Type material examined. Holotype (by monotypy) of Setina rejecta ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–10 ): male without abdomen, [ South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal Province] “Natal” / green ring label “Type” / “18. Setina rejecta .” / “1952/188” / label with QR-code and unique number “ NHMUK 010814204” ( NHMUK); photographs of the holotype of Lithosia bipunctigera (after de Prins & de Prins (2020)): female, “Caffraria.” / Lithosia bipunctigera Wallengr. ” / “466” ( NHRS).

Additional material examined. SOUTH AFRICA: 1 male, 1 female, Karkloof , Natal, G.A.K. Marshall, 97-50, unique number: NHMUK 10918064 About NHMUK (male) , gen. slide No. : NHMUK10315726 About NHMUK (male) (prepared by Volynkin) ; 1 male, Durban, Natal, G.F. Leigh / Rothschild Bequest B.M. 1939-1, unique number: NHMUK 10918065 About NHMUK , gen. slide No. : NHMUK10315727 About NHMUK (prepared by Volynkin) ; 1 female, Durban, Natal , 34. IX.1913 / L. Hargreaves, B.M. 192753, unique number: NHMUK 10918066 About NHMUK , gen. slide No. : NHMUK10315728 About NHMUK (prepared by Volynkin) ; 1 female, Natal, A.J. Spiller; 1 female, Lower Umkomaas, Natal (G.F. Leigh) ; 1 male, Transvaal, Johannesburg , April 1906, A. T . Cooke , 1908-112, unique number: NHMUK 10918067 About NHMUK , gen. slide No. : NHMUK10315729 About NHMUK (prepared by Volynkin) ; 1 female, Transvaal , Pretoria, W.L. Distant ; 1 female, Transkei , Cape Colony (Miss Barrett) ; 1 male, Bashee R ., Kaffraria, J.H. Bowker ( NHMUK) .

Remark. In the original description of Setina rejecta, Walker (1854) referred to a type specimen, without indication of its locality. An S. rejecta specimen labelled as “type” was located in the NHMUK collection bearing a “Natal” label. The same specimen was treated by Karisch (2013) as a syntype. Although the original description does not specify the number of types, it clearly refers to a single specimen by listing it under a single letter “a”. In many of his works, Walker listed all specimens available to him under multiple consecutive letters (see e.g. the description of Setina apicalis Walker, 1854 ), which is not the case in the description of S. rejecta , therefore we consider S. rejecta to have been described from the holotype only.

Diagnosis. The forewing length is 10–12 mm in males and 11–12 mm in females. Most specimens of C. rejecta are slightly smaller than C. cornutissima sp. n. occurring in the northern part of South Africa. The male genitalia of C. rejecta are distinguished by the large, bilobate dorsal subbasal diverticulum (which is also bilobate in C. yao sp. n. and C. cornutissima sp. n., but markedly shorter), the broad and globular 2 nd medial diverticulum, and the moderately broad distal diverticulum bearing two rows of robust spine-like cornuti almost connected apically (in C. occidentalis sp. n. the two rows of cornuti are well-separated; in C. yao sp. n. the rows of cornuti are very short and connected apically; and in C. cornutissima sp. n. there is only a single, conspicuously long row of more numerous and longer cornuti). The female genitalia of C. rejecta differ from those of C. occidentalis sp. n. and C. cornutissima sp. n. by their considerably shorter ductus bursae and the less prominent, less sclerotized appendix bursae and from C. yao sp. n. by their longer, more heavily sclerotized appendix bursae. The presence of a lateral rugose sclerotized area and the band-like weakly scobinated area medially in the corpus bursae separates C. rejecta from all other species in this species-group.

Distribution. The nominotypical subspecies is known only from South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and Eastern Cape Provinces).

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

NHRS

Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

SubFamily

Arctiinae

Tribe

Lithosiini

Genus

Cyana

SubGenus

Cornutivulpecula

Loc

Cyana (Cornutivulpecula) rejecta rejecta ( Walker, 1854 )

Volynkin, Anton V. & László, Gyula M. 2020
2020
Loc

Lithosia bipunctigera

Wallengren 1860
1860
Loc

Setina rejecta Walker, 1854

, Walker 1854
1854
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