Marcopoloia siniaevi Yakovlev & Zolotuhin, 2021

Yakovlev, Roman V. & Zolotuhin, Vadim V., 2021, Revision of the family Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera) of the Oriental Region. V. Genus Marcopoloia Yakovlev & Zolotuhin gen. nov. from the Taiwan Island and Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot, Ecologica Montenegrina 44, pp. 44-52 : 50

Marcopoloia siniaevi Yakovlev & Zolotuhin , sp. nov.

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Material. Holotype, male, Myanmar (Burma), 40 km N Myitkyina, Chanc Kand village , 236 m, 23−24.iv.1998, leg. Murzin & Siniaev ( MWM, GenPr- Heterocera MWM – 28.017).

Description. Male. Length of fore wing 13.5 mm. Antenna bipectinate, setae twice longer than antenna rod diameter. Tip of abdomen with bundle of long modified scales. Fore wing brown, with poorly expressed dark-brown pattern, marginal area ocher, fringe mottled (dark-brown on veins, ocher between veins). Hind wing dark-brown, anal angle brown, marginal area and fringe mottled (dark-brown on veins, ocher between veins).

Male genitalia. Uncus long, with parallel edges, apically rounded, slightly extended, shallow semicircular notch on top; subscaphium long, funnel-like; gnathos arms thin, gnathos poorly expressed; valve short, rounded, with thick semicircular harpe in basal third of saccular edge and small semicircular harpe in medium third; juxta robust, with short, slightly acute lateral processes; saccus tiny, with poorly expressed notch on top; phallus shorter than valve, thin, with very wide semicircular cup-like basal process, slightly curved in medium third, rod-like cornutus in vesica.

Female unknown.

Diagnosis. The new species differs from the known species of the genus in the mottled pattern on the fore wing and in the thick semicircular harpe in the basal third of the valve.

Distribution. Northern Myanmar.

Etymology. The new species is named after Viktor Siniaev (Moscow), my friend and well known collector of the Lepidoptera .

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Figure 15. Distributional map of Marcopoloia.

Figures 1−8. Adult specimens of Marcopoloia: 1. M. discipuncta, male, Taiwan, Prov. Ping-Tung, 10 km SE Mutan, 470 m, 07−10.iii. 1996, leg. Gy. Fabian & L. Nemeth (MWM); 2. M. discipuncta, male, Taiwan, Prov. Ping-Tung, Huang-Lion Recreation Area, 210 m, 06.iii.1996, leg. Gy. Fabian & L. Nemeth (MWM); 3. M. discipuncta, female, holotype of Arbela discipuncta Wileman, Kanshirei, Formosa, 1000 ft., 27.iv.1908, A.E. Wileman (NHMUK); 4. M. discipuncta, female, holotype of Arbela baibarana Matsumura, Horisha, 22.iv.1926, R. Saito & K. Kikuchi (ZMSU); 5. M. leloi, holotype (MWM); 6. M. nangmai, holotype (MWM); 7. M. siniaevi, holotype (MWM); 8. M. thaica, holotype (MWM).

Figures 9−14. Genitalia of Marcopoloia: 9. M. discipuncta, male, Taiwan; 10. M. discipuncta, female, Taiwan; 11. M. leloi, holotype; 12. M. nangmai (MWM); 13. M. siniaevi (MWM); 14. M. thaica (MWM).